A new win­ery is set to open in Napoleon on Sat­ur­day. The Fla­trock Win­ery and Mead­ery will hold its grand open­ing at the loca­tion at 127 West Wash­ing­ton St. begin­ning at 3 p.m., till 11 p.m. There are three sit­ting rooms, board games and the win­ery will offer sake, mead …

Inves­ti­ga­tors say a fire at a Put­nam County assisted liv­ing facil­ity was caused by a lamp. Two peo­ple were injured in the fire Wednes­day just before 1 a.m. at the Mead­ows of Leipic. They say a lamp knocked over dur­ing the night started a small trash can fire. The staff …

The dog at the cen­ter of a con­flict between a pit bull res­cue group and Ful­ton County offi­cials is over, with the dog being released to the group. The res­cue, called Pit Crew, had adopted the dog to a fam­ily in Decem­ber, but the dog bit the owner and they …

Like many play­ers of the Power­ball, when you hear the news that no one drew the right num­bers, it can dis­cour­age play­ers from check­ing their tick­ets. That would be a big mis­take. And accord­ing to Con­ti­nen­tal res­i­dent Michael Hull, that’s what he did. He put the ticket in his glove …

The autopsy results are in, and the cause of death for Jonathan Hofner was mul­ti­ple gun­shots to the head. The Williams County Coro­ner Dr. Kevin Park said though the victim’s body was decom­posed, they were able to iden­tify Hofner through den­tal records. The sus­pect in his death is Bradley Gilbert …

O. Oleen Faulhaber, age 94, of Edon, Ohio, died at 4:05 P.M. on Wednesday, January 6, 2016, in her home. Mrs. Faulhaber was a lifelong resident of the Edon area and graduated from Edon High School in 1940. She had worked at Spangler Candy Company in Bryan, Ohio, during the …

Doris M. Boetz, age 87, of Stryker, passed away Thursday morning, January 7, 2016 at the Fulton County Health Center in Wauseon. She had worked for the telephone company as a switchboard operator and then at Metal Forge in Stryker, where she retired, after 35 years. Doris was born in …

An Edger­ton man was sen­tenced to 4 years in prison after plead­ing guilty to unlaw­ful sex­ual con­duct with a minor in Williams County Com­mon Pleas Court. Samp­son Williams must also reg­is­ter as a tier two sex offender.

The IRS scam just won’t go away. Sher­iff Michael Boden­ben­der in Henry County is warn­ing res­i­dents about the lat­est scam. Accord­ing to his office, poten­tial vic­tims receive a call at home by some­one claim­ing to be the IRS. They explain you owe back taxes, and if you don’t pay imme­di­ately, …

Gen­eral Motors set­tled an asbestos-related law­suit yes­ter­day with the sur­viv­ing spouse of a deceased employee in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court. Sam­mie Jones worked at the GM plant in Defi­ance and died of lung can­cer in 2007. His widow, Judy, filed with the Bureau of Work­ers Com­pen­sa­tion because he had …