Ruby M. Crites, age 86, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away at 7:25 P.M. on Sunday, June 7, 2015, at St. Vincent Heart & Vascular Center in Toledo. Ruby was a homemaker and helped her husband farm their land. Together, they raised and sold sweet corn near the corner of US …

An Angola woman entered into a plea agree­ment with Steuben County pros­e­cu­tors on Mon­day in a Child Molesta­tion case. 24-year-old Michelle Esquivel pleaded guilty to Felony Child Molest­ing dur­ing a pre trial con­fer­ence in Steuben Supe­rior Court. She was sched­uled to go on trial on June 25th. Now, she will …

Bryan’s Gene Fer­rell now can say for sure just where he is going to be for most of the next five years. Far­rell was sen­tenced Mon­day to four years, 11 months in prison for his part in a nation­wide scam involv­ing around $25,000 worth of bogus sales of wooden pal­lets. …

A pre-trial con­fer­ence for 49-year-old Jef­frey Pep­pler of Angola, the man charged with the Jan­u­ary 3rd stab­bing death of his sis­ter and the attempted mur­der of his mother, was con­tin­ued on Mon­day in Steuben Supe­rior Court. The next court date is now June 19th. Pep­pler is sched­uled to go on …

A Mont­pe­lier man was arrested Mon­day after the dri­ver of a reported stolen vehi­cle fled from the scene of an acci­dent east of Pleas­ant Lake. K-9 units from Orland and Ash­ley were brought in to search for the sus­pect. While the police dogs were track­ing him, mem­bers of the Steuben …

One man is dead after a motor­cy­cle crash. It hap­pened just after 4 on Sun­day after­noon on State Route 281, just east of Sny­der Road in Defi­ance County. 58 year old Ran­dall Akers was on a motor­cy­cle headed east on 281, when he attempted to pass a car in front …

A reminder that the annual Fra­ter­nal Order of Police Golf Out­ing will be Sat­ur­day, June 27 at Orchard Hills Golf Course, with a shot­gun start at 8:30 a.m. Rain date is Sat­ur­day, July 25. The reg­is­tra­tion dead­line is June 25. Door prizes will be given along with awards for the …

The Farm­land Jazz Band will per­form at the Huber Opera House in Hicksville on Thurs­day from 7–8:30 p.m. The band con­sists of the finest musi­cians from north­east Indi­ana and has per­formed for thou­sands of peo­ple at var­i­ous venues includ­ing parades, par­ties, bars, church pic­nics, fes­ti­vals, wed­dings, and after­noons in the …

A Bryan man who was found guilty of arrang­ing bogus sales of $250,000 worth wooden pal­lets will be sen­tenced this after­noon in Williams County Court. 36 year old Gene Fer­rell faces up to 35 years in prison when he stands before Judge J.T. Stelzer this after­noon at 2 p.m. in …

Audrey Lamonie Bingaman, 87 years, of Bryan, Ohio passed away Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at Genesis Healthcare, Bryan Center. Audrey was born May 26, 1928 in Williams County, Ohio, the daughter of the late Oscar Wayne and Sarah Ruth (Huntington) Bingaman.  She an office worker for GTE for many years.  She was …