An Ash­ley man was arrested Wednes­day for allegedly being involved in sex crimes back in the sum­mer of 2013 that involved a then 13-year-old girl. 24 year old James Pet­tit is now in the DeKalb County Jail, where he faces three Class A felony counts of Child Molest­ing and a …

Anna Lorene “Dolly” Stryker, age 90, of Edgerton, Ohio, died late afternoon on Monday, August 31, 2015, at Park View Nursing Center in Edgerton, after a brief illness. Mrs. Stryker was a 1941 graduate of Edon High School and had been employed in the telephone office in Edgerton and Spangler …

Cleona J. Spangler, 81 years, of Evansport, Ohio, passed away Tuesday, September 1, 2015, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice, Defiance. Cleona was born January 20, 1934, in West Unity, Ohio, the daughter of the late Cleo and Naomi (Esterline) Lutz. She was a 1952 graduate of Kunkle High School. …

A spe­cial pros­e­cu­tor has deter­mined there is insuf­fi­cient evi­dence of crim­i­nal intent involv­ing the case of Orland Town Mar­shall Brooke Nor­ton and her deputy Ken­neth Steele, over the accep­tance of Oper­a­tion Pullover money dur­ing reg­u­lar police hours. The find­ing comes fol­low­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion that included the Indi­ana State Police, and …

The Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion Dis­trict Two has announced an update to the SR 107 bridge reha­bil­i­ta­tion project in Williams County. SR 107, between CR 8 and CR 9, is now open. Through Sep­tem­ber, inter­mit­tent lane restric­tions are pos­si­ble on SR 107 though, between CR 8 and CR 9 for …

An Angola man was sen­tenced in Steuben Cir­cuit Court on Mon­day, to 360 days in jail after enter­ing guilty pleas to one count of stran­gu­la­tion and two counts of inva­sion of pri­vacy. Tyrone Bussing will serve 180 days of a 497 day sen­tence on the stran­gu­la­tion count and then he …

A Hamil­ton woman was arrested early Tues­day morn­ing by the Steuben County Sheriff’s Depart­ment fol­low­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion into an alleged sex crime involv­ing a minor. 26-year-old Tay­lor Kee­gan was arrested on a Level 4 felony for sex­ual mis­con­duct with a minor after deputies were called just after 11:00pm Mon­day to …

Yes­ter­day, Ohio Attor­ney Gen­eral Mike DeWine announced a “Safe Sur­ren­der” event at the Trin­ity Gospel Tem­ple in Can­ton. Any­one with any kind of mis­de­meanor or low-level felony war­rant can now come to the church any time after noon Sept. 30 through Oct. 3 and turn them­selves in. The inno­v­a­tive pro­gram …

A Hicksville man was in Defi­ance Munic­i­pal Court on Mon­day, fac­ing charges fol­low­ing an alleged inci­dent on Power Dam Road early Sat­ur­day morn­ing. 28 year old Joshua Beard is charged with felony break­ing and enter­ing, felony domes­tic vio­lence and two counts of assault. The charges stem from an inci­dent in …

A Fort Wayne man will have to serve four years of a six year sen­tence after he appeared in Steuben Supe­rior Court on Mon­day, to enter a guilty plea to felony bur­glary. Nathan Kear­ney was also placed on pro­ba­tion for two years and ordered to pay $791 in resti­tu­tion. Kear­ney …