Kaiser James Hug, the sweetest boy ever, left this earth peacefully, in his sleep on March 23, 2021. He was born on October 29, 2020, to Casey Hug and Courtney Richard. He was momma’s boy and daddy’s pride and joy. Kaiser was the happiest baby. Our sweet baby boy was …

A federal judge dismisses a lawsuit filed by the state of Ohio that tried to get the U.S. Census Bureau to provide data used for drawing congressional and legislative districts ahead of its planned release. Ohio filed its lawsuit last month…after the Census Bureau said the redistricting data wouldn’t be …

GOP lawmakers make good on their promise to check the authority of Gov., DeWine…by issuing the first override of his term, after a yearlong battle over how the state should respond during a health emergency. The Republican-controlled House and Senate voted after short debates in each chamber to reject DeWine’s …

Indiana’s governor announces he will lift the statewide mask mandate and remaining COVID-19 business restrictions…in two weeks. Gov., Holcomb said in a speech from his Statehouse office that the state’s steep declines in coronavirus hospitalization and death rates…along with the growing number of people fully vaccinated…justify the steps, starting April …

A Bryan woman gets eight to 12 years behind bars after using a Molotov cocktail to burn down a mobile home in Bryan. We reported Hope Williams was accused of purposely setting fire to the place on S. Union St., when a man was sleeping inside, on the morning of …

Joshua Amos…the Montpelier man, accused of his role…following a drug deal that left another man dead…pleads guilty to lesser charges. A grand jury indictment filed in December 2018 alleges that he sold heroin and fentanyl, causing the death of a 26-year-old. Charges of trafficking in heroin and more are dropped, …

In Henry County…an Archbold man is sentenced to 15 years in prison for child sexual abuse. Louie Delgado was accused of rape and more. He is now classified as a tier III sexual offender, requiring lifetime registration of his address. Prosecutors say Delgado had sex with two girls, between the …

CCNO is dropping its lawsuit against the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Dennis Sullivan, executive director of the jail facility, filed suit against the state agency in Ohio’s Supreme Court in December, to block the rule, requiring county jails from quarantining their post-sentence inmates for 14 days prior to …

Koni L. Riegsecker, 57, of Archbold, Ohio went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Monday, March 22, 2021 at Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Zion, Illinois, with her family by her side. Koni was born October 16, 1963 in Bryan, Ohio, the son of Theodore A. and …

Fire destroys one barn and heavily damages another, northeast of Bryan, along County Road F. Crews from Brady Township and Montpelier…with tanker support from Stryker…assisted the Bryan fire team in the firefighting operation. The blaze also destroyed an employee’s vehicle, a pickup truck, a stake truck and a log grinder. …