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The Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion plans to begin con­struc­tion soon on a new Pauld­ing County main­te­nance garage and a new out­post in Hicksville. The Cres­cent News today reports that the new Pauld­ing County garage will be built on Wayne St. in Pauld­ing, the site of the exist­ing garage. A new …

Auburn Police have arrested six peo­ple fol­low­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion into metham­phet­a­mine fol­low­ing a report on Mon­day that some­one had placed sus­pi­cious trash in a trash recep­ta­cle in the 200 block of West Sec­ond Street. Police got search war­rants for nearby homes, where they found metham­phet­a­mine related items and other ille­gal …

The old say­ing goes some­thing like this… “third time’s a charm.” In Defi­ance, offi­cials are hop­ing just that, as the Kings­bury Pool is about to open for the year.. for the third time. The pool opened first this year on June 6th, but then closed 10 days later because of …

The inves­ti­ga­tion into the June 15th rob­bery of the Farm­ers State Bank branch in Ash­ley is con­tin­u­ing. So far, no arrests. Mean­while, the work being done on that case has report­edly helped in another, seper­ate inves­ti­ga­tion. Inves­ti­ga­tors say some infor­ma­tion they got while look­ing into the Ash­ley rob­bery, helped with …

A cou­ple from the Bryan area led law enforce­ment on a chase through three states early Tues­day morn­ing. It all began around 3:30 yes­ter­day morn­ing, and it ended with the arrests of the dri­ver, Gabe Gam­bler, and his pas­sen­ger, Jen­nifer Cul­bert­son. Bryan Police say they tried to stop the two …

The Napoleon Pub­lic Library is closed until fur­ther notice due to a water main break. Every­thing there is shut down… even the library’s phones are out of ser­vice. If you have any books or other items that are due to be returned though, don’t worry… exten­sions will be granted and …

The drug prob­lem in Bryan is grow­ing. To illus­trate that increas­ing prob­lem locally, lis­ten to this… Police found four meth labs in Bryan in just the past four days. On Sat­ur­day after­noon, police and fire crews responded to the 200 block of East Bryan Street when sus­pi­cious items were found …

A crash on US-24 early this morn­ing shut down part of that high­way. It hap­pened around 4:30AM at the Ohio 108 over­pass in Napoleon, chok­ing off a por­tion of east­bound U.S. 24. Napoleon Police reported that a semi flipped on its side. There were no injuries. While crews cleaned up, …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol made 690 arrests for impaired dri­ving and 391 for drug-related charges over this Fourth of July hol­i­day period. Seven peo­ple lost their lives in a total of six traf­fic crashes on state high­ways dur­ing the four-day report­ing period. The Patrol responded to 643 crashes and …

A bomb threat at the Defi­ance Wal­mart Mon­day night brought out Defi­ance Police. The threat was phoned in at 6:16 p.m. when some­one called the Wal­Mart on North Cin­ton Street in Defi­ance, say­ing that there was a bomb in the store. Wal­mart man­age­ment imme­di­ately called 911 and the Defi­ance Fire …