Four are indicted by a Fulton County Grand Jury following a rash of thefts in the eastern part of the county this summer…Michael Starbird…Alan Shelor…Shelby Smith…and Zachary Neal…all from the Toledo area…face breaking and entering charges and more. The busts come as the result of some teamwork between several police …

William Edward “Ed” Gipple, age 79, of Montpelier, Ohio, passed away at 12:27 P.M. on Saturday, October 17, 2020, at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers in Bryan after an extended illness. Mr. Gipple began working at White Motors in Montpelier, then was a foundry worker for Allied Products in Hillsdale, …

Edward F. Oberheim, age 83, of Archbold, and formerly of New York, passed away on Saturday, October 17, 2020 at Indian Meadows in Wauseon. He was born in Brooklyn, New York on July 19, 1937, the son of Joseph E. and Mary (Hesselbach) Oberheim. There are no immediate survivors. Due …

Barbara J. Dietsch, 83, of Montpelier passed away Sunday morning at Evergreen Manor Nursing Home.  She was born on September 25, 1937 in Montpelier to Doran W. and Arvilla L. (Whitney) Bavin.  Barb graduated from Montpelier High School in 1955.  She married Frank Dietsch on October 30, 1955 at St. …

The race in the rural Ohio district of disgraced ex-Ohio House Speaker, Larry Householder now includes four write-in candidates…attempting to unseat the once-powerful politician, who has refused to step aside from his reelection bid despite facing charges in a $60 million bribery scheme. He is the only candidate listed on …

Delays in the mailing of hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots across Ohio by a private vendor…rocked by equipment challenges and overwhelmed by unparalleled volume…should be addressed in the coming days, officials say. Midwest Direct CEO, Richard Gebbie tells the media his firm’s business model for this election anticipated double …

An undetermined number of Ohio inmates…serving additional time on firearms charges…could see their sentences reduced after a court ruling. Three staffers have been assigned full-time to the job of getting the first letters, laying out affected inmates’ recalculated sentences, to judges starting this week. The judges will be asked to …

Esther Anna (Bock) Rice of Archbold passed away peacefully on June 20, 2020 at the age of 100 at Fairlawn Retirement Community, after spending the day sharing favorite memories with her beloved children. She was born March 26, 1920, the daughter of Reverend Albert and Lydia (Buehrer) Bock in Beulah, …

Michael Douglas Draper passed on October 17, 2020, after a year-long battle with kidney cancer.  He was surrounded by his loving family including his wife Linda Draper and four children:  Chad (Maryann) Elliott, Justin (Nicole) Sexton, Jennifer Draper (Crockett) Butler, and Michael (Cassandra) Draper Jr.  He had four grandchildren:  Haylee …

Monty Shane Stiltner, 30 years, of Ney, passed away Thursday, October 15, 2020, in the emergency room of Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers, Bryan.  Shane was born July 15, 1990, in Bryan, Ohio, the son of Monty D. and Cheryl A. (Shafer) Stiltner.  He was a 2009 graduate of Fairview …