A fire at a pole barn on Wednes­day after­noon, north of Angola, caused nearly $200,000 worth of dam­age. Flames broke out just after 3:00pm yes­ter­day on the Clay Grif­fin along State Road 127. The build­ing had a lot of small equip­ment in it, along with large round bales of hay. …

A Bryan man who raped a men­tally hand­i­capped per­son, was sen­tenced Wednes­day in Williams County Court to 11 years behind bars. 54 year old Ricky Rothen­buh­ler pleaded guilty last month to rape, and fail­ure to notify author­i­ties of a change in address. Rothen­buh­ler was already a reg­is­tered sex offender fol­low­ing …

A severe and dam­ag­ing storm raced across our area on Wednes­day night, bring­ing down power lines and trees in it’s path of destruc­tion. Toledo Edi­son reports a num­ber of out­ages in and around Defi­ance, Florida and Wauseon, leav­ing hun­dreds of peo­ple in the dark. Accord­ing to the National Weather Ser­vice, …

Richard A. Batdorf, age 67, Wauseon, passed away on Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at St. Vincent Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo. Arrangements are pending at the Edgar-Grisier Funeral Home in Wauseon.

James E. “Jim” Kiefer, age 64, of Stryker, passed away in his home on Monday, June 8, 2015. Jim and his wife Nancy have owned and operated Jacoby Packing in West Unity for 15 years. Jim was born in Perrysburg on October 22, 1950, the son of Charles and Janice …

A dead body was dis­cov­ered in Edger­ton. Police say the body was found by fam­ily mem­bers on Mon­day night just before 8pm. No names have been released, but we do know that the address where the body was dis­cov­ered is 118 West Lynn Street in Edger­ton. Edger­ton Police so far …

A Pauld­ing man died Tues­day morn­ing in a one-vehicle crash. 18 year old Skyler Huth was pro­nounced dead at the scene by the Pauld­ing County Coro­ner. The crash hap­pened yes­ter­day morn­ing just after 7:30 on US-127, when Huth, who was north­bound in a Chevy Avalanche, appar­ently drifted off the side …

Three for­mer employ­ees of an Angola com­pany are now fac­ing theft charges after they allegeldy vio­lated com­pany pol­icy through the alleged unau­tho­rized sale of scrap mate­ri­als. Now, all three will head to trial in Steuben Cir­cuit Court next Feb­ru­ary. 59-year-old James Van Vlerah Junior of West Otter Lake is charged …

Two men, one from Bryan and one from Defi­ance, were sen­tenced in Ful­ton County Com­mon Pleas Court. 18 year old James Black of Bryan, was sen­tenced to two years com­mu­nity con­trol for break­ing and enter­ing and theft. Pros­e­cu­tors say Black broke into a Delta garage back in Jan­u­ary, where he …

A Mont­pe­lier man who police say stole a car in Mont­pe­lier, is in an Indi­ana county jail after crash­ing that car. 37 year old Mark Sidle, accord­ing to police, stole a Kia Soul in Mont­pe­lier Mon­day after­noon. That stolen car was involved in a crash involv­ing Sidle near Pleas­ant Lake, …