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Fol­low­ing the announce­ment last week that it was fil­ing bank­ruptcy and shut­ter­ing many stores nation­wide, Radio Shack has released a list of the stores it intends to close. Included on that list is the Radio Shack at the North­towne Mall in Defi­ance. The local store is among more than 1,700 …

The Pauld­ing Vil­lage Coun­cil has voted to enter into a con­tract for phase II of the com­bined sewer over­flow project, while at the same time, it talked about the finan­cial hard­ships pre­sented by the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency. The Cres­cent News reports that Pauld­ing coun­cil has passed a res­o­lu­tion autho­riz­ing the …

A man from Indi­ana was locked behind bars, fol­low­ing an inci­dent in which he drove his vehi­cle into a Defi­ance build­ing Sun­day morn­ing. 23 year old David Good­mann was south­bound on Degler Road, when he failed to stop at Spruce Street. He slameed his SUV into a build­ing occu­pied by …

More than 25 peo­ple were rounded up and arrested on drug charges Mon­day in Defi­ance County. The arrests yes­ter­day came fol­low­ing an under­cover drug inves­ti­ga­tion that took place over the past 18-months, focus­ing mainly on pre­scrip­tion opi­ates, cocaine and mar­i­juana. The lengthy inves­ti­ga­tion ended with 31 peo­ple being charged with …

A crash Sun­day after­noon in Henry County left five peo­ple injured. 35 year old Kelly Camp of Desh­ler, was north­bound on County Road 7 at County Road G and pulled into the path of a west­bound vehi­cle dri­ven by 19 year old Zachary Lanzer, also of Desh­ler. Lanzer’s vehi­cle slammed …

The Mont­pe­lier Exempted Vil­lage Board of Edu­ca­tion met last Thurs­day, and voted to hire Carla Rice as its new CFO and trea­surer. Rice was employed as interim CFO/treasurer at $27.73 per hour. Her three-year con­tract begins March 16 at a salary of $76,000 per year.

A Bryan man is behind bars fol­low­ing his arrest on Mon­day. Bryan Police col­lared 21 year old Shane Smith of South Beech Street in Bryan on two counts of Aggra­vated Men­ac­ing and one count of Dis­or­derly Con­duct. Smith was locked up in CCNO.

The trial of a Bryan man accused of run­ning a pal­let scam has been post­poned. Gene Fer­rell was sched­uled to stand trial start­ing at 9 yes­ter­day morn­ing in Williams County Com­mon Pleas Court.

The WBNO/WQCT 36th Annual Bliz­zard Auc­tion was a huge suc­cess, with Con­quer Child­hood Can­cer NOW get­ting more than $14,000 which will be put to use for treat­ing and defeat­ing child­hood can­cers. Con­quer Child­hood Can­cer NOW has a three-pronged approach to fight­ing the dis­ease. One of their goals is to raise …

Bryan Police on Sat­ur­day, arrested 24 year old Don­ald L. Bren­ne­man of Bryan for Crim­i­nal Tres­pass and Dis­or­derly Con­duct. He was taken to CCNO. On Sun­day, Bryan Police nabbed 24 year old Arturo Melchiorre-Soto of Bryan for Crim­i­nal Tres­pass and Dis­or­derly Con­duct. He too was taken to CCNO.