A con­victed sex offender was sen­tenced to five years in prison on Mon­day in Steuben Cir­cuit Court. 27-year-old Christo­pher Fugate was arrested by U.S. Mar­shals in Jan­u­ary in Hicksville. Fugate was sen­tenced to two years in prison for his fail­ure to reg­is­ter as a sex or vio­lent offender after he …

LoisJean Hilda Richer, age 82, of Stryker, passed away Sunday, July 12, 2015 at Genesis in Bryan. LoisJean was born in Henry County, Ohio, the daughter of Alfred G. and Pauline (Meyer) Rabe. In 1954 she married Harold Gerken , who died in 2009. In 1984 she married Lawrence Richer, …

Rev. Mary M. Duke, 88 years, formerly of Sherwood, passed away Friday, July 10, 2015 in her residence with her family at her side. Mary was born April 10, 1927 in Bartow County, Georgia, the daughter of the late Dock and Alice (Cochran) Wiley. Mary married Haskell O. Duke in …

An Angola man is in cus­tody fol­low­ing an inci­dent Fri­day after­noon at the Wells Fargo Bank in Angola. 52-year-old Kurt Hen­nig walked into the bank just after 3:00pm and accord­ing to wit­nesses, he started to act strangely. They say Hen­nig tried to lock the front door with a chain and …

A Put­nam County woman is in some seri­ous trou­ble after being accused of lying to the FCIC. 55 year old Sharon Piper is charged with mak­ing a mate­ri­ally false state­ment to the Fed­eral Deposit Insur­ance Cor­po­ra­tion. Piper was the head teller for the Union Bank Co. at its Colum­bus Grove …

A man from Stryker, who inves­ti­ga­tors say caused a fire at a Defi­ance home while mak­ing metham­phet­a­mine, is now headed to prison. 18 year old James Black Jr was handed a manda­tory four-year prison term in Defi­ance County Court on charges of ille­gal man­u­fac­ture of drugs and van­dal­ism. Black was …

Bryan Police report the arrest on Fri­day after­noon of 48 year old Beth Diringer of Bryan, on charges related to Theft… in this case, it was Shoplift­ing. She was released. Also on Fri­day, Bryan Police col­lared 31 year old Philip Kurtz of Bryan, just before 11PM on a charge of …

Here we go again… the Lib­erty Cen­ter Local Board of Edu­ca­tion accepted the res­ig­na­tion of a prin­ci­pal, for the sec­ond time in less than two weeks. Dur­ing a spe­cial meet­ing Fri­day morn­ing, the board accepted the res­ig­na­tion of Junior/Senior High School Prin­ci­pal Bryan Skrzyniecki, effec­tive July 31st. That res­ig­na­tion comes …

Mary L. Trachl, age 66, of Bryan, Ohio, died on Wednesday, July 8, 2015, at her home. Mrs. Trachl was a foreign language teacher at Central Local (Fairview) Schools from 1983 until the present, where she taught mainly Spanish and some French. Mary attended St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Edgerton. …

Accord­ing to the National Oceanic and Atmos­pheric Admin­is­tra­tion, an algae bloom this year at Lake Erie could be much worse than oth­ers recently. Worse than last year’s, which shut down Toledo’s pub­lic water sys­tem for two days. Last year, it was so bad that peo­ple who depend on that water …