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 …

The Pauld­ing High School gym­na­sium was packed on Sat­ur­day as the com­mu­nity came together to remem­ber one of their own. 26-year-old Petty Offi­cer Sec­ond Class Ran­dall Smith was one of the five ser­vice mem­bers who died fol­low­ing the July 16 shoot­ing at a mil­i­tary recruit­ing cen­ter in Chat­tanooga, Ten­nessee. Reports …

Fifty-three wind­mills are in need of restora­tion at Mid-America Wind­mill Museum in Kendal­lville. Over half need sig­nif­i­cant repairs, and a restora­tion expert has told the museum that fail­ure to fix the machines will mean only another five years or so of oper­a­tion. After that, those wind­mills will be beyond repair. …

An Angola man accused of stab­bing his mother and sis­ter back in Jan­u­ary changed his plea in Steuben Supe­rior Court on Fri­day. 49-year-old Jef­frey Allen Pep­pler offered to plead guilty to killing his sis­ter if pros­e­cu­tors would drop the charge of attempted mur­der of his mother. Judge William Fee will …