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The Defi­ance city administration’s plan to seek grant funds for a round­about traf­fic con­trol device at a south­side inter­sec­tion ended abruptly on Tues­day night, when city coun­cil rejected an ordi­nance autho­riz­ing the state grant appli­ca­tion. The ordi­nance would have allowed the city to seek grant funds through the Ohio Depart­ment …

An Angola man is behind bars today at the DeKalb County Jail, with­out bond, after he allegedly exchanged gun­fire with an off duty Kendal­lville Police Offi­cer Tues­day night. 21-year-old Tyler Gaiski is now fac­ing felony charges of attempted mur­der, bur­glary and tor­tur­ing an ani­mal. It all began when DeKalb County …

A non-compliant reg­is­tered sex offender is being hunted down by the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office. On Wednes­day, an arrest war­rant was issued for 62 year old Bruce W. Sev­er­ance, who is charged with a felony for fail­ure to reg­is­ter as a sex or vio­lent offender. The war­rant was issued after …

A truck dri­ver was killed early Tues­day morn­ing in an acci­dent involv­ing three semis which forced the total shut down of a three mile por­tion of I-69 south of Auburn for nearly eight hours. That driver’s name has not been released, but we do know that he was pro­nounced dead …

Plans for pri­va­ti­za­tion are elim­i­nat­ing any con­cerns for con­flict of inter­est at Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter. The admin­is­tra­tive attor­ney in Colum­bus that was hired to research the sit­u­a­tion and review the reor­ga­ni­za­tion with the Ohio Depart­ment of Devel­op­men­tal Dis­abil­i­ties recently sent a let­ter with his con­clu­sions to each of the super­in­ten­dents …

A mas­sive back up on south­bound I-69 from an acci­dent that involved three semis led to another crash which injured a Water­loo woman on Tues­day morn­ing. 29-year-old Laneigh Brun­ing was trav­el­ing south just after 7:00am yes­ter­day, when she didn’t notice that vehi­cles were slow­ing down or stopped in front of …

A Pleas­ant Lake man pleaded guilty to a felony charge of child molest­ing on Mon­day in Steuben Supe­rior Court. It was in con­nec­tion to an inci­dent that pros­e­cu­tors said hap­pened in the fall of 2007. 24-year-old Todd Hart was arrested in June. Under terms of the plea agree­ment, the orig­i­nal …

In Steuben County Court on Mon­day, one of the four peo­ple who were arrested in a metham­phet­a­mine bust near Hamil­ton in April of 2014 was sen­tenced. 36-year-old Leslie Swindell pled guilty last Feb­ru­ary to aid­ing in deal­ing metham­phet­a­mine, a felony. Swindell learned yes­ter­day that he will have to serve 8 …

The Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers on Mon­day, by a 2 to 1 vote, awarded a con­tract to Cur­rent TEKSolu­tions of Bryan to out­fit the Hill­side Coun­try Liv­ing cam­pus with W-Fi. The Bryan Times reports that Com­mis­sion­ers selected Cur­rent TEK’s bid over Sonit Sys­tems of Arch­bold, and G6 Com­mu­ni­ca­tions of Bluffton, Indi­ana …

The name of the woman who died on Wednes­day after being injured last Tues­day in a fire in Defi­ance was released over the week­end. 48 year old Penel­lopie Wit­tig died Wednes­day at Mercy St. Vin­cent Med­ical Cen­ter in Toledo where she had been taken by air ambu­lance from Mercy Defi­ance …