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A train derailed yes­ter­day morn­ing in Napoleon, tem­porar­ily block­ing the inter­sec­tion of Glen­wood and Wash­ing­ton. The train was car­ry­ing tomato paste, so no HAZMAT sit­u­a­tion here, but two cars did over­turn, caus­ing some dam­age to about 100 feet of track, which will have to be repaired once the cars are …

Vol­un­teers at the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio received spe­cial recog­ni­tion, includ­ing hon­or­ing the Vol­un­teer of the Year, dur­ing the 24th annual Vol­un­teer Recog­ni­tion Ban­quet held Tues­day. Vol­un­teer Jim Scruta of Napoleon, who has been a vol­un­teer there since 2001, was named the CCNO Vol­un­teer of the Year for 2014. …

Well now, this is kind of spooky. The for­mer Pauld­ing County jail will soon, accord­ing to plans laid out by it’s new owner, become a new his­tor­i­cal attrac­tion and para­nor­mal research cen­ter. Shelly Burk Robert­son of Indi­anapo­lis pur­chased the prop­erty for $15,000. Robert­son grew up in Van Wert County. She …

Bryan Police nabbed an Illi­nois woman early Wednes­day morn­ing. 23 year old Lativa Spencer of Calu­ment City was charged with felony van­dal­ism. Spencer was locked up in CCNO. Bryan Police did not pro­vide any addi­tional infor­ma­tion such as what prop­erty was van­dal­ized or what the spe­cific dam­ages were.

Believe it or not, under­wear is a cause of con­cern in some jails, but the “bot­tom” line, so to speak, is that no con­tra­band is dis­cov­ered in the waist­band. The Bryan Times reports that in Franklin County, the County Cor­rec­tions Divi­sion issued a press release, in which it said that …

A Wauseon woman was sen­tenced to 3 years of com­mu­nity con­trol and ordered to pay just under $8300 in resti­tu­tion to the Wauseon Schools after being sen­tenced yes­ter­day in the Ful­ton County Com­mon Pleas Court. 38 year old Angela Spadafore pre­vi­ously pled guilty to Theft in office. It was dis­cov­ered …

Jew­ell Town­ship and South Rich­land fire­fight­ers were called to a woods and grass fire north of Defi­ance, at 8:44 a.m. Mon­day. The Cres­cent News reports that the fire spread from a burn bar­rel due to high winds at the res­i­dence of Harold Stef­fel. The National Weather Ser­vice reported that the …

Accord­ing to infor­ma­tion released on Tues­day by the Ohio Depart­ment of Nat­ural Resources, hunters in our state donated more than 1,000 white-tailed deer to local food banks to ben­e­fit Ohioans in need dur­ing the 2014–15 hunt­ing sea­son. Food banks received approx­i­mately 50,850 pounds of veni­son and 203,400 meals for needy …

The Ful­ton County Soil and Water Con­ser­va­tion Dis­trict is now tak­ing orders for its annual fish fin­ger­ling dis­tri­b­u­tion pro­gram for stock­ing ponds. The dead­line to order is May 8, with pick-up held May 12 at the Ful­ton County Fair­grounds. Pur­chasers will be noti­fied of their pick-up times after all orders …

Bryan res­i­dents are invited to join Bryan City Schools to cel­e­brate the start of con­struc­tion on the new middle/high school. The project is the begin­ning phase of a mas­ter plan that will unite all 2,000 stu­dents, from preschool through grade 12, on one cam­pus for the first time in the …