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In an effort to bring aware­ness to breast can­cer, Defi­ance High School art stu­dents of Melanie Wil­son and Mandy Keck have banded together to pro­duce “Hope” tiles which will be sold this evening at the high school foot­ball game at Fred J. Brown Sta­dium. The tiles will be sold by …

The Williams County Ele­men­tary Quiz Bowl for grades 5 & 6 was held last night at Hill­top School. The fol­low­ing schools par­tic­i­pated: Bryan Edger­ton Edon Hill­top Mont­pe­lier North Cen­tral Stryker St. Mary St. Patrick Stryker was run­ner –up and Hill­top took home the win­ning trophy.

Two teens from Angola were arrested by Angola Police and the Steuben County Sheriff’s Depart­ment Wednes­day after­noon, and charged with felony bat­tery. 18-year-old Chance Sheets and 19-year-old Tay­yar Azzan were picked up on East Broad Street in Angols at about 8:00am yes­ter­day, and taken to the Steuben County Jail. The …

An inves­ti­ga­tion is under­way after a worker report­edly died when elec­tro­cuted at a Pauld­ing County busi­ness. The Ohio Occu­pa­tional Safety and Health Admin­is­tra­tion says a worker at Hav­i­land Plas­tic Prod­ucts was elec­tro­cuted in the acci­dent that occured early Mon­day morn­ing. Details have not been made avail­able and the name of …

An Arch­bold man is now fac­ing charges of felo­nious assault and attempted mur­der. 20 year old Pre­ston Klopfen­stein was indicted by a Ful­ton County grand jury. Pros­e­cu­tors allege that on Sept. 23, Klopfen­stein engaged in con­duct that, if suc­cess­ful, would have resulted in the deaths of his mother, Holly Klopfen­stein, …

A Fre­mont High School stu­dent died Tues­day night at Parkview Regional Med­ical Cen­ter from injuries he suf­fered in a tree cut­ting acci­dent. 16-year-old Colin Book, accord­ing to the coroner’s report, died from blunt force trauma. The acci­dent hap­pened around 4:40PM Tues­day near St. Paul’s Catholic Chapel. Book was part of …

A trooper from the Van Wert post of the Ohio State High­way Patrol was one of three peo­ple injured when a vehi­cle slammed into his marked patrol car as he was assist­ing a stranded motorist Mon­day morn­ing. Trooper Jared Miller was taken to Pauld­ing County Hos­pi­tal for treat­ment of non-life …

Ongo­ing ten­sions between the Defi­ance County Fair Foun­da­tion and the county’s fair board sur­faced at the county com­mis­sion­ers’ meet­ing ear­lier this week. The Cres­cent News reports that on Mon­day, sev­eral mem­bers of each organization’s board were on hand for the com­mis­sion­ers’ reg­u­lar ses­sion. Some dif­fer­ences between the fair foun­da­tion — …

A teenage boy was flown out by the Samar­i­tan Heli­copter on Tues­day after­noon after ini­tial reports indi­cate a tree fell on him. Accord­ing to the lim­ited infor­ma­tion that we have avail­able at this time, res­cue crews were called out at about 4:40pm yes­ter­day. Fre­mont fire­fight­ers, Fre­mont Police, Steuben County E.M.S. …

While toxic algae is caus­ing some con­cerns in Ohio and sur­round­ing states, The Bryan Times reports that Williams County has not detected any algae blooms so far. Mean­while, the Asso­ci­ated Press is report­ing today that a toxic algae out­break, which was detected two months ago, spread more than 600 miles …