A man who was being sought by the Steuben County Sheriff’s Depart­ment for not reg­is­ter­ing as a sex offender has been cap­tured in Sawyer County, Wis­con­sin. 62-year-old Bruce Sev­er­ance was arrested there by the Sawyer County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Mar­shals Ser­vice. Sev­er­ance was arrested for a vio­la­tion of …

Williams County Sher­iffs Deputies made an early morn­ing arrest today. 50 year old Dawn Ben­ton of West Unity was taken into cus­tody just before 1:30 this morn­ing on a domes­tic vio­lence charge. No other infor­ma­tion sur­round­ing that arrest was released

A recent bur­glary lead Williams County deputies to a home in Bryan within sight of the old Williams County Sheriff’s Office. 37 year old Jes­teen Gutier­rez was arrested and charged with second-degree felony bur­glary. Also arrested was 20 year old Gabriel Wil­son, who was charged with fourth-degree felony receiv­ing stolen …

Robert V. Knapp, age 73, of Liberty Center, Ohio passed away Friday September 25, 2015 at Hospice of Northwest Ohio in Perrysberg. Prior to his retirement, he had worked for General Motors in Defiance for more than 39 years. Mr. Knapp was born in Delta, Ohio on October 17, 1941 …

Delbert R. Baker, 80, of Pioneer passed away Friday afternoon at Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice Center.  He was born on September 20, 1935 in Montpelier to Ray O. and Kathleen (Lashaway) Baker.  Delbert attended Montpelier Schools. Delbert retired as a service technician from General Telephone in 1990.  He began his 32 year career …

Jesse E. Clark, 75, of Alvordton passed away late Thursday afternoon at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  He was born on December 5, 1939 in Cattlesburg, Kentucky to James Wadsworth and Ella Mae (Rye) Clark.  Jesse married Edna E. Bellomy and she survives.  He worked for Issac Metal Company in …

Elton J. Wilson, 96 years, of Ney, Ohio, passed away Thursday, September 24, 2015 at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice, Defiance.  Elton was born September 28, 1918 in Lafayette, Indiana, the son of the late Elton F. and Maggie (Benham) Wilson.  Elton was raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and he …

A Bryan man is behind bars today, fol­low­ing a domes­tic inci­dent that hap­pened over the week­end when he allegedly bar­ri­caded him­self in an apart­ment. 30 year old Cecil Web­ster has been charged with felony domes­tic vio­lence, resist­ing arrest, crim­i­nal dam­ag­ing, crim­i­nal tres­pass­ing and vio­lat­ing a pro­tec­tion order. He’s locked up …

Just days before the city of Toledo’s fourth-quarter pay­ment is due, CCNO offi­cials had to take a sort of dooms­day look at some worse-case sce­nar­ios on Fri­day if Toledo can’t pay up. It was dur­ing a spe­cial meet­ing at the Henry County Emer­gency Oper­a­tions Cen­ter, and CCNO’s board mulled over …

Two peo­ple from Ten­nessee were arrested late Sat­ur­day night on drug charges after items of drug candy turned up dur­ing a traf­fic stop on I-69 near Auburn. The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Depart­ment pulled over a vehi­cle at about 10:45pm for going 85 miles an hour. Inside were Tim­o­thy Cole and …