Mary E. Ussery, age 88, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 2:50 P.M. on Tuesday, October 13, 2015, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice near Defiance after a brief illness. Mrs. Ussery retired from Stryker Metal Forge. Mary E. Usser was born on July 12, 1927, in Springfield Township near Stryker, …

Joy M. Cagle, age 48, of Bryan, Ohio, died unexpectedly in her home on Saturday, October 17, 2015, after a brief illness. Ms. Cagle grew up in the Northwood, New Hampshire area and graduated from Concord, New Hampshire High School. She enjoyed music and had studied music for some time …

Paul A. Lay  On  October 20, 2015, Paul A. Lay completed the days God had allotted to him.  Paul was born on October 8, 1927 to Rinehart and Laurine (Vetter) Lay.  During World War II, Paul served with the Army, in the Japanese theater where he was instrumental in forming the GI …

Two teens from Angola were arrested by Angola Police and the Steuben County Sheriff’s Depart­ment Wednes­day after­noon, and charged with felony bat­tery. 18-year-old Chance Sheets and 19-year-old Tay­yar Azzan were picked up on East Broad Street in Angols at about 8:00am yes­ter­day, and taken to the Steuben County Jail. The …

An inves­ti­ga­tion is under­way after a worker report­edly died when elec­tro­cuted at a Pauld­ing County busi­ness. The Ohio Occu­pa­tional Safety and Health Admin­is­tra­tion says a worker at Hav­i­land Plas­tic Prod­ucts was elec­tro­cuted in the acci­dent that occured early Mon­day morn­ing. Details have not been made avail­able and the name of …

An Arch­bold man is now fac­ing charges of felo­nious assault and attempted mur­der. 20 year old Pre­ston Klopfen­stein was indicted by a Ful­ton County grand jury. Pros­e­cu­tors allege that on Sept. 23, Klopfen­stein engaged in con­duct that, if suc­cess­ful, would have resulted in the deaths of his mother, Holly Klopfen­stein, …

A Fre­mont High School stu­dent died Tues­day night at Parkview Regional Med­ical Cen­ter from injuries he suf­fered in a tree cut­ting acci­dent. 16-year-old Colin Book, accord­ing to the coroner’s report, died from blunt force trauma. The acci­dent hap­pened around 4:40PM Tues­day near St. Paul’s Catholic Chapel. Book was part of …

James “Jim” Corwin Burkholder passed away in the late morning hours of Tuesday October 6th, after a lengthy illness. Jim is survived by his loving wife of 29 years, Jayne (Beckman) Burkholder, sons Jeff and Dave (Mary) Gill; sisters Joan (Jim) Nofzinger, Corinne (Jim) Wright, Jane (Toad, deceased) Milliman and …

A trooper from the Van Wert post of the Ohio State High­way Patrol was one of three peo­ple injured when a vehi­cle slammed into his marked patrol car as he was assist­ing a stranded motorist Mon­day morn­ing. Trooper Jared Miller was taken to Pauld­ing County Hos­pi­tal for treat­ment of non-life …

Ongo­ing ten­sions between the Defi­ance County Fair Foun­da­tion and the county’s fair board sur­faced at the county com­mis­sion­ers’ meet­ing ear­lier this week. The Cres­cent News reports that on Mon­day, sev­eral mem­bers of each organization’s board were on hand for the com­mis­sion­ers’ reg­u­lar ses­sion. Some dif­fer­ences between the fair foun­da­tion — …