Police dis­cov­ered more than 25 trash bags full of items used to make metham­phet­a­mine tossed into Pigeon Creek this past week­end. Steuben County sheriff’s staff and Indi­ana con­ser­va­tion offi­cers pulled the bags from a stretch of creek between Golden Lake and Hog­back Lake on Sun­day. After fur­ther study, the mate­ri­als …

An Arch­bold man was set free yes­ter­day after a West Vir­ginia judge dis­missed mur­der charges for lack of evi­dence. 52-year-old Charles Free­man, along with 40-year-old Joseph Metz of West Vir­ginia, were acquit­ted of the 1999 dis­ap­pear­ance and deaths of Metz’ mother and grand­mother. With no crime scene, mur­der weapon, or …

A Pauld­ing County man was found dead Wednes­day evening fol­low­ing an acci­dent involv­ing a farm trac­tor. Deputies responded to a call shortly before 8:30pm and found 75-year-old Richard Ross lying in a field west of Jack­son Town­ship. It appeared that Ross had fallen from the cab of his trac­tor, pos­si­bly …

Phyllis Joan “Jo” Heater, 83 years, of Paulding, passed away peacefully, Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice, Defiance, with her family at her side.  Jo was born March 11, 1932 in Paulding County, Ohio, the daughter of the late Paul and Delle (Johnston) Knisley.  She was a 1949 …

LeGrange County inves­ti­ga­tors are ask­ing for the public’s help in locat­ing a miss­ing teenager. The sheriff’s depart­ment says that 17-year-old Faith Ann Ritche was last seen Tues­day after­noon at her home. Ritche is described as being a white female, 5’5″, 160 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes. She was …

A Pauld­ing County farm is mak­ing prepa­ra­tions to host a statewide fundraiser for can­cer research next week­end. McClure Farms in Wash­ing­ton Town­ship will host the event called Cul­ti­vat­ing a Cure, which is put on by the Ohio Farm Bureau and has raised nearly $200,000 since its incep­tion in 2011. Pro­ceeds …

A pro­posed nat­ural gas pipeline is being held up by Sum­mit County res­i­dents who refused to allow sur­vey­ors onto their land. The three-foot, $2 bil­lion Nexus Pipeline would run 250 miles from Columbiana County to Defi­ance before turn­ing north toward Michi­gan and con­nect­ing with another pipeline in Ontario. The company’s …

Angola is con­sid­er­ing whether or not to annex a num­ber of sub­di­vi­sions of County Road 100N just west of town. Offi­cials say a sig­nif­i­cant num­ber of sep­tic sys­tem fail­ures in the area prompted the dis­cus­sion by the Board of Pub­lic Works ear­lier this week. Should the annex­a­tion go for­ward, that …

One of the world’s largest prop­erty insur­ers has awarded a grant to the Auburn Fire Depart­ment. The $2,500 fire pre­ven­tion grant from FM Global will be used for pub­lic edu­ca­tion of fire pre­ven­tion and responses to help reduce the num­ber of fires in the community.

The Ohio Parole Board voted unan­i­mously to rec­om­mend that the gov­er­nor reject a plea for clemency from 61-year-old for­mer coin dealer Tom Noe. Noe was con­victed in 2006 for theft of any­where from $13 mil­lion to $50 mil­lion in rare-coin invest­ment funds. Should Gov. John Kasich agree with the board, …