We’ve cer­tainly had our share of fires this win­ter. There was another house fire in the area on Fri­day. Defi­ance fire­fight­ers were called out Fri­day morn­ing to flames at a home on Wash­ing­ton Avenue. The first reports came in around 6:30 Fri­day morn­ing. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, the flames …

It’s now been deter­mined that it was light­ning that caused that home explo­sion a week ago at Snow Lake in Steuben County. Fire inves­ti­ga­tors found burn holes where the light­ning came out through a gas line in the crawl­space. Inves­ti­ga­tors now say they think the crawl­space filled with gas after …

Some sur­veil­lance cam­eras in the state are under scrutiny. A few more speed­ing cam­eras have gone dark in Ohio, after the lat­est in a string of court rul­ings against auto­mated traf­fic enforce­ment. In But­ler County last week, a judge ordered one vil­lage to pull the plug on enforce­ment cam­eras, say­ing …

The Ohio High­way Patrol this morn­ing is say­ing that a Defi­ance woman was killed in a single-vehicle crash Thurs­day morn­ing in Defi­ance County. Police say a car dri­ven by 50 year old Kathy Browns of Defi­ance ran off Defi­ance County Road 424 and slammed into a util­ity pole. The crash …

Once again, snow emer­gen­cies were announced yes­ter­day in many areas of North­west Ohio due to blow­ing and drift­ing snow, as the win­ter of 2013–14 just won’t give up. Williams and Henry Coun­ties were reported to be oper­at­ing on Level 2 emer­gen­cys, while Ful­ton and Defi­ance Coun­ties were at level 1. …

The Ohio House voted last week to approve four addi­tional calamity days for the state’s school dis­tricts because of this winter’s extreme weather, after many school dis­tricts across the state sim­ply ran out of extra days. This bill still awaits approval by the Sen­ate. If the Sen­ate bill ends up …

Sears Home­town and Out­let Stores, Inc. announces the open­ing of a new Sears Home­town Store on Main Street in Adrian. The new store is cel­e­brat­ing its grand open­ing today through March first by offer­ing an addi­tional dis­count of 10 per­cent off almost every­thing in the store, plus spe­cial give­aways, includ­ing …

The Ohio Sen­ate signed off this week on leg­is­la­tion allow­ing peo­ple here in Ohio to buy cer­tain items over a three-day period with­out pay­ing any state or local sales taxes. The sales tax hol­i­day would begin on the first Fri­day of August and cover school sup­plies, com­put­ers and sup­plies. The …

Lucille Marie Nottingham, age 87, of Wauseon passed away early Tuesday February 25, 2014 at Fulton Manor in Wauseon. Prior to her retirement she had been a school cook. Mrs. Nottingham was born in Loretto, MN on September 23, 1926 the daughter of the late Herman and the late Louise …

Two employ­ees received spe­cial recog­ni­tion dur­ing the Feb. 26 meet­ing of the Cor­rec­tions Com­mis­sion of North­west Ohio. Cor­rec­tions Super­vi­sor Jason Wise­cup was named CCNO Employee of the year for 2013. Jason has been employed at CCNO since 2004. Michael Jor­dan was named the Top Con­tract Employee for 2013. Michael is …