Robert N. Wagner Jr. passed away on Monday July 6, 2015 from cancer; he was 74. Robert was a 1959 graduate of Central Catholic High School in Toledo, OH. He was a veteran of the US Army, and was stationed at Ft. Lewis Washington where he met and later married …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol made 690 arrests for impaired dri­ving and 391 for drug-related charges over this Fourth of July hol­i­day period. Seven peo­ple lost their lives in a total of six traf­fic crashes on state high­ways dur­ing the four-day report­ing period. The Patrol responded to 643 crashes and …

A bomb threat at the Defi­ance Wal­mart Mon­day night brought out Defi­ance Police. The threat was phoned in at 6:16 p.m. when some­one called the Wal­Mart on North Cin­ton Street in Defi­ance, say­ing that there was a bomb in the store. Wal­mart man­age­ment imme­di­ately called 911 and the Defi­ance Fire …

A com­pany from Que­bec, Canada plans to set up shop in Water­loo and cre­ate up to 85 new jobs by 2018. Techo-Bloc is a man­u­fac­turer of high-end paving stones and patio blocks. The com­pany announced on Mon­day that it plans to invest over $34 mil­lion to estab­lish its Mid­west regional …

Two were hurt in a rollover Mon­day night on I-69 near the Pok­agon (POH-KAY-GUN) State Park exit. The crash caused the north­bound side of the inter­state to be shut down for about an hour. It hap­pened just after 7:30 last night, when a Honda Accord dri­ven by 40-year-old Tim­o­thy McFellin …

A man from Jonesville, Michi­gan will have to do 180 days of an 18 month sen­tence after enter­ing a guilty plea to a felony charge of intim­i­da­tion on Mon­day in Steuben Supe­rior Court. Terry Dendy was accused of threat­en­ing to kill employ­ees of a local com­pany in a pay dis­pute …

James Eugene Thornton, age 85, of Wauseon passed away early Saturday July 4, 2015 at the Fulton County Health Center. Mr. Thornton was born on March 19, 1930 in BonJelico, Kentucky the son of the late James and the late Judy (Moses) Thornton. He married the former Betty Berryhill and …

Suellen Schad, age 69, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away at 10:55 A.M. on Friday, July 3, 2015, at Genesis HealthCare-Bryan Center where she had been a resident. Suellen was the co-owner and bookkeeper at Suburban Golf Course for many years. She had also been a bookkeeper at Isaac Tire and …

Dennis M. Johnston, age 95, of Edgerton, Ohio, passed away at 9:55 A.M. on Friday, July 3, 2015, at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne. Mr. Johnston was the mayor of Edgerton for 16 years. He worked as a milkman for Callender Dairy in Edgerton and Benner Dairy in …

Irma L. Lowery, age 80, of Wauseon, passed away Thursday, July 2, 2015 at Heartland of Wauseon. Mrs. Lowery was born on January 17, 1935 in Chesterfield, Oh, the daughter of Paul and Martha (Whitehead) Campbell. Mrs. Lowery was a homemaker. She was a member of First Christian Church. Surviving …