Four more peo­ple have been arraigned in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court on drug charges fol­low­ing their arrests on Mon­day. The four are part of the 27 peo­ple who were arrested recently in the case. Plead­ing not guilty to the charges on Tues­day were: 40 year old Bethany Ballew; 31 …

It was back on Jan­u­ary 22, when a search war­rant was exe­cuted at an apart­ment on West High Street in Bryan, and three peo­ple were arrested on drug charges. Now, not even a month later, offi­cers returned on Tues­day evening with another war­rant and three more peo­ple were taken into …

A project aimed at the clean up of the Pow­ell Creek water­shed in Defi­ance and Put­nam coun­ties has been extended until June. The Cres­cent News reports today that the Pow­ell Creek nutri­ent reduc­tion project was sched­uled to last two years, but now has been extended to June 30. The pro­gram …

David F. Poulson, 89 years, of Farmer, passed away Monday, February 9, 2015 at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice Center, Defiance.  David was born May 25, 1925 in Belmont County, Ohio, the son of the late Harry and Eva (Perkins) Poulson.  He was a graduate of Beallsville High School, then went on …

Fol­low­ing the announce­ment last week that it was fil­ing bank­ruptcy and shut­ter­ing many stores nation­wide, Radio Shack has released a list of the stores it intends to close. Included on that list is the Radio Shack at the North­towne Mall in Defi­ance. The local store is among more than 1,700 …

The Pauld­ing Vil­lage Coun­cil has voted to enter into a con­tract for phase II of the com­bined sewer over­flow project, while at the same time, it talked about the finan­cial hard­ships pre­sented by the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency. The Cres­cent News reports that Pauld­ing coun­cil has passed a res­o­lu­tion autho­riz­ing the …

Jeanette “Sammy” Woodgeard, age 80, of Bryan, Ohio, died at her home on Monday, February 9, 2015. Sammy was a Commercial Artist her entire adult life. One of her early jobs was at the Federal Glass Company where she designed the Rolling Rock beer bottle logo. She also worked with …

A man from Indi­ana was locked behind bars, fol­low­ing an inci­dent in which he drove his vehi­cle into a Defi­ance build­ing Sun­day morn­ing. 23 year old David Good­mann was south­bound on Degler Road, when he failed to stop at Spruce Street. He slameed his SUV into a build­ing occu­pied by …

More than 25 peo­ple were rounded up and arrested on drug charges Mon­day in Defi­ance County. The arrests yes­ter­day came fol­low­ing an under­cover drug inves­ti­ga­tion that took place over the past 18-months, focus­ing mainly on pre­scrip­tion opi­ates, cocaine and mar­i­juana. The lengthy inves­ti­ga­tion ended with 31 peo­ple being charged with …

A crash Sun­day after­noon in Henry County left five peo­ple injured. 35 year old Kelly Camp of Desh­ler, was north­bound on County Road 7 at County Road G and pulled into the path of a west­bound vehi­cle dri­ven by 19 year old Zachary Lanzer, also of Desh­ler. Lanzer’s vehi­cle slammed …