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In Pauld­ing County, the for­mer direc­tor of the pro­ba­tion depart­ment has pleaded guilty to theft in office. 46-year-old Payne res­i­dent Emily Munger pleaded guilty to a 4th degree felony yes­ter­day in a pre­trial hear­ing in Com­mon Pleas Court in Put­nam County. She will be sen­tenced on March 21. She could …

A man who reg­is­tered as a Repub­li­can to run for Williams County Com­mis­sion now says he will run as an inde­pen­dent in Novem­ber. While Rod­ney Miller has his name on the March 15 bal­lot, now votes for him then will not count. He said he is drop­ping out as a …

In Ful­ton County, a Mont­pe­lier man was indicted this week for theft. 33-year-old Jason Franks is fac­ing one felony count of theft. Accord­ing to court doc­u­ments, the man is accused of steal­ing more than $1000 worth of prop­erty in October.

Attor­ney Gen­eral Mike Dewine has called an emer­gency meet­ing for law enforce­ment, med­ical per­son­nel and mem­bers of the jus­tice sys­tem last Thurs­day to address the grow­ing drug prob­lem in the Buck­eye State. Call­ing it the worst drug epi­demic in his life­time, Dewine says last year, at least three Ohioans every …

Last week, Cecil Web­ster pleaded guilty to a domes­tic vio­lence charge. The 30 year-old will face the judge for sen­tenc­ing on Feb­ru­ary 10th.

A Mont­pe­lier man has been found guilty of non-support of depen­dents. 48-year-old Tyler Bowen pleaded guilty to the felony charge and will be sen­tenced on Feb­ru­ary 22nd.

A 30-year-old Bryan man pleaded guilty for impor­tun­ing and crim­i­nal child entice­ment. Zachary Dick­er­son was found guilty and will be sen­tenced on Feb­ru­ary 11th.

Cold weather is not stop­ping con­struc­tion on the new Bryan City Schools build­ing. With about half of the con­struc­tion site tem­porar­ily heated, it allows work to con­tinue. Among the man facets of con­struc­tion, right now they’re installing elec­tri­cal and util­i­ties. Con­crete floors were all com­pleted last month. Steel instal­la­tion needs …

A lit­tle bit of nos­tal­gia com­ing to the Sky­lark Club in Defi­ance. The first com­mu­nity dance for adults is hap­pen­ing this Sat­ur­day from 7 p.m to 11 p.m. with a DJ, dance instruc­tors and con­ces­sions. There will be ball­room, swing and coun­try line danc­ing at the club at 320 Jack­son …

An elec­tri­cal fire caused about $30,000 dam­age to a home in rural Wauseon on Sat­ur­day evening. The home on County Road H is owned by Scott and Lisa Ellinwood, and had been hav­ing an elec­tri­cal prob­lem before the fire was reported after 10 p.m. Fire­fight­ers found a fire in the …