A house fire over the week­end in Defi­ance that was said to have been caused by light­ning left three peo­ple with­out a roof over their heads. It hap­pened early Sat­ur­day morn­ing, around 5AM, and when fire crews arrived, the fire was dis­cov­ered in the attic of the house on Hop­kins …

A sus­pi­cious object turned up in down­town Auburn on Fri­day morn­ing, and it was found to have con­tained metham­phet­a­mine related items. Auburn Police say it was a brown suit­case that was found sit­ting close to a build­ing in the 100 block of West 5th Street. That suit­case turned out to …

68 year old Defi­ance County Sher­iff David Westrick has announced that he will not seek re-election because of health con­cerns. Westrick has ser­aved for more than three decades. He suf­fered a mild heart attack ear­lier this year and says he has also been diag­nosed with Parkinson’s dis­ease. Westrick is cur­rently …

Daisy D. Hall, age 80, of Wauseon passed away late Monday September 14, 2015 at Fulton Manor in Wauseon. Prior to her retirement she had worked at Perfection Finishers in Wauseon for many years. Mrs. Hall was born on November 22, 1934 in Monroe, Michigan the daughter of the late …

Jennie V. Kralicek, age 90, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 8:20 A.M. on Wednesday, September 16, 2015, at Bowling Green Manor, Bowling Green, Ohio, where she was a resident. She attended school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and worked at the hospital in Logansport, Indiana, and for a doctor’s office in Indianapolis, …

The inves­ti­ga­tion con­tin­ues fol­low­ing the arrest of an Auburn man after Auburn Police found ille­gal drugs and pos­si­ble drug related and stolen items in his vehi­cle. 23-year-old Bran­don Robert­son was stopped for dri­ving on a sus­pended dri­vers license. Robert­son was also wanted out of Noble County for Fail­ure to Appear, …

A van­dal­ism com­plaint at One Cour­t­house Square led deputies to find that some­one had carved grafit­tie on the rim of the foun­tain there. The graf­fiti referred, in graphic detail, to the 1946 mur­der of Emily Aber­nathy, who was mur­dered by James R. Engle in the base­ment of the Williams County …

In Pauld­ing County Court, a man man this week pleaded not guilty to an invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter charge and three drug-related charges. 26 year old Andrew Mar­tin of Payne, was indicted on one count of invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter, a felony; two counts of cor­rupt­ing another with drugs, also a felony; and ille­gal …

Thelma M. Lamb, age 95, of Wauseon passed away early Tuesday September 15, 2015 at Fairlawn Haven in Archbold. She was a lifelong Homemaker. Mrs. Lamb was born on June 14, 1920 in Columbus, Ohio the daughter of the late Chuck and the late Angela (Morrison) Welch. She married Bernard …

Patricia A. (Beck) Cape, age 84, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 8:25 P.M. on Tuesday, September 15, 2015, at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers, Bryan, Ohio, where she was a patient following an extended illness. Mrs. Cape was a 1949 graduate of Edgerton High School. In her early years, she …