Michi­gan State Police have made two arrests fol­low­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion into alleged crim­i­nal sex­ual con­duct and extor­tion. A third sus­pect is the sub­ject of a search. State Police said in a release yes­ter­day that the case goes back at least eight years. The alleged crimes took place in Branch County’s …

One arrest by the Williams County Sher­iffs Dept. 28-year-old Bianca Trevino of Bryan was arrested on New Years Eve morn­ing on a felony war­rant out of North Dakota. The warrant’s orig­i­nal charges were ter­ror­iz­ing and sim­ple assault.

The Pauld­ing County Wall of Honor at the cour­t­house has a new name. Ran­dall Smith, a Pauld­ing native, died last July from injuries he received dur­ing a domes­tic ter­ror­ist attack on the Navy Oper­a­tions Sup­port Cen­ter in Chat­tanooga. His name will be placed under a new cat­e­gory: Global War on …

Par­ents of prospec­tive col­lege stu­dents can learn about Finan­cial Aid at a work­shop next Wednes­day, Jan­u­ary 6th. The Defi­ance County Coun­selors Asso­ci­a­tion hosts the annual pro­gram to help par­ents and stu­dents under­stand how to apply for finan­cial aid through FAFSA… the Free Appli­ca­tion for Fed­eral Stu­dent Aid, which helps fam­i­lies …

On this New Year’s Eve, a reminder that city offices will be closed tomor­row. Trash pickup for tomor­row will be moved to Tues­day, Jan. 5.

You may see Con­ti­nen­tal Fire Department’s new fire truck on your trav­els. The new pumper cost almost a quar­ter of a mil­lion dol­lars and holds 3,000 gal­lons of water.

A crash in Cam­den, Michi­gan injured three peo­ple Tues­day. In a release yes­ter­day, Hills­dale County Sheriff’s Depart­ment said the dri­ver of a car became ill and lost con­scious­ness while on South Edon Rd. He drove off the road and flipped the car. He was sent by med­ical heli­copter to a …

The Fayette man killed in a two-vehicle crash on I-69 in Steuben County has been iden­ti­fied as 68-year-old Mar­ion Gar­ri­son. He lost con­trol Mon­day after­noon on the icy inter­state, hit a guardrail and crashed into a semi. Gar­ri­son was pro­nounced dead at the scene. He was not wear­ing a seat …

Rena J. Lesko, age 77, of Ridgeville Corners, Ohio, passed away on Tuesday morning, December 29, 2015 at Defiance Inpatient Hospice Center. Rena was born in Luray, Virginia on July 29, 1938, the daughter of Fred and Bertie (Hinton) Gochenour. In 1969 she married James “Jim” Lesko, and he survives. …

The mayor of Edon is retir­ing. Dar­lene Burkhardt has lived in the vil­lage her whole life, and is ready to relax and enjoy the fruits of her labor, over­see­ing the county for 8 years as mayor, 21 years as Flo­rence Town­ship clerk and on the Board of Elec­tions for Williams …