A couple wanted on bank robbery charges in Michigan had their first appearance in an Ohio courtroom. 32 year old John T. Morgan and 29 year old Nickole Collins were arraigned Monday afternoon. The couple was stopped early Monday morning for a traffic violation near Cincinnati. Both are facing charges …

Evacuation plans and cyber security were major topics during the Paulding County commissioners meeting recently. County officials including the Emergency Management Agency director, court representatives, auditor, clerk, treasurer and others met with the commissioners to review and discuss the evacuation plan for courthouse employees. EMA director Ed Bohn presented a …

The United Way of Paulding County is getting a new executive director. Former director Chris Hoeffel left the post in January as he accepted another job offer. Hoeffel began in the position in just six months before in August 2015. “He did a real fine job, but over Christmas break …

Teachers in Archbold schools will be getting a raise. The Archbold Area Board of Education and the district’s teachers’ union agreed Wednesday on a contract that has pay raises in store for teachers. Teachers will receive a 2 percent increase in the first and second years of the three-year contract, …

Clean-up crews worked Tuesday and into Wednesday night after more than 200 gallons of “food-grade product” spilled into the Auglaize River in Defiance. The Ohio Environment Protection Agency was in Defiance on Wednesday after vegetable oil from a facility on Greenler Street accidently ended up in the river. According to …

A head on collision on U-S 6 near Waterloo seriously injured three people just before 8 p-m Wednesday. DeKalb County deputies say it happened in the 4300 block of U-S 6 when one car crossed the center line to turn into a driveway and struck the other head-on. That first …

Marie Pierce, age 73, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 1:25 P.M. on Tuesday, April 5, 2016, at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where she was a patient after a brief illness. Mrs. Pierce was a 1960 graduate of Hamilton, Indiana, High School. A devoted wife and mother, …

Ragna Olafsdottir Lirot, 58, a devoted and beloved wife, mother, and grandmother succumbed to cancer on Wednesday morning at her home in Pioneer. She was born March 16, 1958 in Keflavik, Iceland to Olafur Hogni Egilsson and Nilsena Larsen. Ragna graduated from Keflavik High School in Iceland. On June 9, …

A Defiance man was arrested Tuesday for three felony sex offense charges. The Defiance Police Department charged 43-year-old Russell Detwiler II with rape and two counts of gross sexual imposition. Reports say the charges stem from alleged incidents involving two victims who were younger than 13. Detwiler is in the …

A man was shot at the shooting range in Napoleon Tuesday evening and at this point it’s thought to be accidental, though an investigation will determine what happened. A victim is in critical condition after the incident on County Road 15A in Napoleon about 8:15 p.m. According to a news …