James David Dickerhoof, age 52, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 9:44 P.M. on Saturday, February 22, 2014, shortly after admittance to Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers in Bryan, Ohio. As a special needs child, Jim touched the hearts of all he met. He attended Sunnyside School and most recently enjoyed …

Ruth M. Perkins, 88, of Stryker, died Saturday at Genesis Health Care, Bryan, after a long illness. She was born near Stryker on May 8th, 1925, to Donald and Hazel (Reynolds) Perkins. She was a member of the Stryker United Methodist Church, was Past Matron of the Evansport Chapter, Order …

Betty Lou Lovejoy, age 89, of Wauseon, passed away Thursday February 20, 2014 at Fairlawn Haven in Archbold. She was a life long Homemaker. Mrs. Lovejoy was bon on January 7, 1925 in Napoleon, Ohio the daughter of the late Max and the late Ella (Mohr) Waite. On January 19, …

Ava “Mae” Maysel Wilson, 83 of Fredericktown, Ohio, formerly of Montpelier, went home to be with the Lord on Friday February 21st at the Country Court Nursing Home in Mt. Vernon, Ohio.  She was born on March 8, 1930 in Frame, West Virginia to Morgan A. and Blanche C. (Anderson) Thompson.  She …

A small barn was destroyed by fire Sat­ur­day after­noon in Defi­ance County. Fire­fight­ers were called just after noon on Sat­ur­day to Flory Road where the build­ing, owned by Eric and Amanda West­hoven, was fully engulfed when they arrived. There were no reports of any­one hurt in the fire, how­ever a …

A Defi­ance County man has pleaded guilty in U.S. Dis­trict Court to a bill of infor­ma­tion charg­ing him with five counts of tax eva­sion. Michael W. Blake entered the guilty plea on Fri­day. Blake is now set to be sen­tenced July 28 by Judge Jef­frey Helmick, who accepted his plea …

This year’s harsh win­ter hasn’t caused the Defi­ance reser­voir oper­a­tion any major prob­lems. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, water plant super­in­ten­dent Adam McDow­ell reports that this win­ter has been less of a chal­lenge than the 2012–13 sea­son. The reser­voir, accord­ing to McDow­ell, is much fuller than it was at this …

A Napoleon man has been arrested on a felony charge of Fail­ing to Reg­is­ter a change of address as a Sex Offender. 34 year old Shan­non Hand is sched­uled in court today on that charge. Hand was orig­i­nally con­victed in Defi­ance County on a charge of Attempted Unlaw­ful Sex­ual Con­duct …

In Ful­ton County Com­mon Pleas Court, 37 year old Joshua Cas­sady of Wauseon pled guilty on Fri­day to Tres­pass­ing in a home when a per­son is likely to be present. Police say Cas­sady stole a tv from an Elm Street home in Wauseon in con­nec­tion with the same inci­dent. Cas­sady …

Thirty peo­ple were exposed to poi­so­nous fumes Thurs­day morn­ing after a roof at the Per­for­mance Food Group dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­ter on U.S. 6 in Kendal­lville, Indi­ana col­lapsed. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, the weight of heavy-wet snow caved in the roof, which caused a tank of anhy­drous ammo­nia to rup­ture. It …