Richard L. “Jake” Reas, age 66, of Hesperia, Michigan, died at 6:35 A.M. on Sunday, June 28, 2015, at Trinity Health Mercy Hospital in Muskegon, Michigan, after an extended illness. Mr. Reas was a graduate of Eastside High in Butler, Indiana, and upon graduation joined the United States Navy and …

The Flood warn­ings con­tinue today in much if not most of north­west Ohio, and they will remain in effect until at least 12:45 this after­noon. Those flood warn­ings for urban and small streams include Williams, Defi­ance, Henry and Ful­ton Coun­ties. The lat­est reports indi­cate flood waters are reced­ing in most …

Flood­ing in Defi­ance has forced the city to move its annual fire­works dis­play. Accord­ing to a report in the Cres­cent News, Fri­day night’s fire­works are still sched­uled to be launched Fri­day evening at dusk at Diehl Park. Due to the flood­ing caused by the recent rains, ven­dors and other mid­way …

Bryan Police say early Mon­day morn­ing, just after mid­night, they arrested 33 year old Den­nis A. Pol­ing of Bryan who was charged with pos­ses­sion of a con­trolled sub­stance, pos­ses­sion of para­phena­lia, and lit­ter­ing. Pol­ing was also picked up on a bench war­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. Pol­ing was taken …

A Lake James man who pleaded guilty on Mon­day to three cases in Steuben Supe­rior Court, learned that he will be spend­ing the next 4 1/2 years behind bars. 29-year-old Danny Lee Rhudy was handed three-18 month con­sec­u­tive sen­tences on three felony counts includ­ing two counts for fail­ing to reg­is­ter …

The inves­ti­ga­tion con­tin­ues into a Sat­ur­day night acci­dent that injured a Hills­dale man when he was shocked by some live elec­tri­cal wires in Wright Town­ship. The crash hap­pened just after 10:30 Sat­ur­day night on Pitts­ford Road, when 45-year-old Joseph Fredrick Parson’s vehi­cle hydroplaned on some water that was over the …

A rollover acci­dent in DeKalb County is being blamed on the weekend’s down­pours. 59 year old Jack Sze­man of Hamil­ton was try­ing to enter I-69 on the south­bound entrance ramp from U.S. 6 when his Ford F-350 went out of con­trol on the water cov­ered pave­ment Sat­ur­day night just after …

Margaret “Peggy” Atkinson Kimble, 74, of Montpelier, passed away Thursday at Hospice of Northwest Ohio in Perrysburg. She was born on Aug. 13, 1940 in Pinehurst, North Carolina to Henry Lee and Virginia Caroline (Hensley) Butner. On March 6, 1966 she married Robert John Kimble and he survives. Peggy was …

Rose Nina Arias, age 84, of Napoleon, and formerly of Wauseon, passed away Sunday morning, June 28, 2015 at the Orchards of Northcrest in Napoleon. Mrs. Arias was born in Mayfield, Michigan on February 13, 1931, the daughter of George and Mary (Alt) Phillips. On October 5, 1957 she married …

Yvonne C. Cottrell, age 62, of Edgerton, Ohio, passed away at 5:46 P.M. on Thursday, June 25, 2015, in her home surrounded by family. Mrs. Cottrell had been a longtime resident of the Reading and Camden, Michigan, area prior to moving to Edgerton. She was a restaurant cook for many …