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In Pauld­ing County, there’s a new Drug Court, set up to help lower-level, non­vi­o­lent felony offend­ers with drug or alco­hol issues. The first court was in late Octo­ber, and its goal, said Judge Tiffany Beck­man, is for par­tic­i­pants to defeat their addic­tion and become con­tribut­ing mem­bers of soci­ety. The three …

The State of Ohio’s “pay for stay” pro­gram for jail inmates has col­lected more than a half a mil­lion dol­lars in the past five years. The Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio reported yes­ter­day that money goes back to the juris­dic­tions that use the pro­gram. Those inmates who are con­victed of …

An air­man with local ties in Bryan has been hon­ored as one of the top 40 young mem­bers of the USmil­i­tary by Civil­ian Jobs, an online mil­i­tary job site. 29 year old Seth Michael is a senior air­man in the Air Force. He’s sta­tioned in Florida as a reservist and …

A man from Penn­syl­va­nia was arrested for pos­ses­sion of heroin by Williams County deputies after he was found over­dosed in a room at the Qual­ity Inn in Hol­i­day City. 39 year old Joshua D. Dean of State Col­lege, Penn­syl­va­nia, was revived with Nar­can, and then he was arrested at about …

It took four days of trial, but on Thurs­day it was all over for an Arch­bold man who was found guilty yes­ter­day in Ful­ton County Court, of invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter and domes­tic vio­lence. The ver­dicts were returned by the jury against Romualdo Cor­doba Jr after about four hours of delib­er­a­tion. Cor­doba …

A Mont­pe­lier man who is a sus­pect in a Williams County mur­der inves­ti­ga­tion was ordered on Thurs­day after­noon, to be held on a $2 mil­lion bond dur­ing his ini­tial appear­ance in Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. 22-year-old Bradly Gilbert waived extra­di­tion last week in Surry County, North Car­olina where he was arrested …

As win­ter gets closer and closer, the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion garage in Mont­pe­lier this year, plans to use some inno­v­a­tive new approaches this year. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, cal­cium chlo­ride will be deployed from one of the district’s 14 trucks if it gets really cold out­side and the …

The num­bers are back, and now we know that voter par­tic­i­pa­tion in this fall’s elec­tion was around 50 per­cent. The fig­ures include those who voted before Tues­day. About half of Defi­ance County’s 24,448 reg­is­tered vot­ers did vote this fall, and in Pauld­ing County, voter turnout was just over 50 per­cent …

Sergeant Patrick Tusko of the Defi­ance Post of the Ohio High­way Patrol was hon­ored for his heroic actions dur­ing a crash. He was pre­sented with the high­est form of honor, the pres­ti­gious Superintendent’s Cita­tion of Merit Award. Sergeant Tusko began his Patrol career in Feb­ru­ary 1997 as a mem­ber of …

Steuben County Pros­e­cu­tors have filed six charges includ­ing four felonies against an Angola woman fol­low­ing a drug bust last month. Tabytha Sat­ti­son is fac­ing felony charges for Deal­ing in Metham­phet­a­mine and for Pos­ses­sion of Chem­i­cal Reagents, a leg­end drug and metham­phet­a­mine. She is also fac­ing charges for pos­ses­sion of mar­i­juana …