Three peo­ple arrested on drug charges are get­ting a chance to do rehab rather than hard time. 25-year-old Mitchell Reade, 25-year-old Justin Delles, and 28-year-old Nik­isha Hick­er­son were each given two years’ pro­ba­tion by Branch County Cir­cuit Court Judge Bill O’Grady after they pled guilt to var­i­ous drug charges. In …

A light­ning strike is being blamed for a power out­age in Cold­wa­ter yes­ter­day morn­ing. Parts of the west side of the city remained in the dark as the sun came up fol­low­ing the strike that occurred around 4:45am as part of a sys­tem of thun­der­storms that rolled through the area. …

Indi­ana state sen­ater Den­nis Kruse of Auburn, who chairs the Senate’s edu­ca­tion com­mit­tee, is ask­ing his state’s leg­is­la­ture to aggres­sively tackle a short­age of teach­ers enter­ing the class­room. Reports have shown the num­ber of first-time teach­ers has dropped by nearly 20 per­cent over the past five years, mak­ing it dif­fi­cult …

A man who eluded police in three states was finally stopped in Hills­dale County when spike strips were used to dis­able his vehi­cle. 37-year-old Gabriel Gam­bler and his pas­sen­ger tossed drugs out the win­dow while run­ning from police in Williams County and Steuben County before being appre­hended. Gam­bler has already …

A rollover crash on I-69 in DeKalb County over the week­end is being blamed on an ani­mal in the road­way. 18-year-old Drake Stafford some­how escaped with only cuts and bruises after his pickup truck rolled mul­ti­ple times Sat­ur­day evening when he over­cor­rected after swerv­ing to miss an ani­mal a cou­ple …

Defi­ance City police have iden­ti­fied the body found in a yard over the week­end. 41-year-old Ronald Steel, Jr., was dis­cov­ered unre­spon­sive in the 800 block of Nicholas Road just after 6:30am Sat­ur­day morn­ing. A cause of death remains under investigation.

Charlotte V. Gillies Priem, age 95, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 9:07 A.M. on Saturday, August 1, 2015, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice near Defiance, Ohio after a brief illness. Mrs. Priem was a longtime resident of the Detroit area and worked in retail sales J.L. Hudson Department Store …

Nazaria T. Gomez, 81 years, of Stryker, Ohio departed her home on earth to her new home Far Beyond the Sun, on Saturday, August 1, 2015 in her residence peacefully, with her family at her side after a brief illness.  Nazaria was born July 28, 1934 in Beeville, Texas, the daughter …

Researchers at Ohio State Uni­ver­sity are look­ing for farm­ers in the Maumee River Val­ley to vol­un­teer for a study to help reduce nutri­ent runoff and increase crop yields. Farm­ers would allow for the col­lec­tion of water sam­ples from their land for two years to pro­vide data for the project. Farm­ers …

A fac­tory in Jonesville is get­ting a sec­ond lease on life. The for­mer Kid­die Brush & Toy fac­tory is being repur­posed for hous­ing, with 50 new apart­ments planned to be ready for occu­pancy this com­ing spring. Jonesville offi­cials say the project has been in the works for a long time …