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In Henry County, two peo­ple who were arrested in a home break-in ear­lier this month have been bound over to the Henry County Grand Jury. 31 year old Leo Jef­fers, Jr waived his pre­lim­i­nary hear­ing on a felony charge of Break­ing and Enter­ing. 74 year old Ray­mond Barnes of Lib­erty …

Now that the third annual Henry County elec­tron­ics recy­cling roundup is his­tory, offi­cials there say 32 tons of elec­tronic recy­clables were turned-in on April 5th. The drive also raised money for the local schools. Napoleon high school col­lected over 18,000 pounds of elec­tron­ics, which gen­er­ated over $1,300, along with the …

A school bus acci­dent Mon­day morn­ing resulted in minor injuries, but police say it’s lucky no one was hurt more seri­ously. The Bryan Times reports twenty stu­dents were on Millcreek-West Unity Local Schools bus no. 5 yes­ter­day morn­ing when a car ran into the back of the bus. At least …

A new orga­ni­za­tion is form­ing in Ful­ton County with the aim of improv­ing the econ­omy. The Ful­ton County Com­mu­nity Improve­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (FCIC) announced last week that it is explor­ing the cre­ation of a private/public part­ner­ship orga­ni­za­tion that would fos­ter eco­nomic devel­op­ment through­out Ful­ton county. County offi­cials say that pri­vate busi­nesses …

The Ful­ton County Soil and Water Con­ser­va­tion Dis­trict now is tak­ing orders for the annual fish fin­ger­ling dis­tri­b­u­tion pro­gram. The dead­line to order is May 9. Pick-up is May 13 at the Ful­ton County Fair­grounds in Wauseon. Once all orders are received, cus­tomers will be noti­fied of their pick-up time. …

Lomont Hold­ings Co, which does busi­ness as Illu­mi­nated Image, and is a whole­sale sup­plier for retail sign com­pa­nies, announced plans on Mon­day to expand its oper­a­tions in Angola, cre­at­ing up to 20 new jobs by 2017. The com­pany will invest $1.1 mil­lion to lease, ren­o­vate and equip its cur­rent 50,000 …

Area fire­fight­ers were called out Mon­day to a fire at stor­age units at the Ful­ton County Air­port near Wauseon. Accord­ing to the Sheriff’s Office, the call came in around 9:20 yes­ter­day morn­ing. Wauseon fire­fight­ers were assisted by the Delta, Arch­bold, and Lyons fire depart­ments, and quickly got the flames under …

The Amer­i­can Red Cross is ask­ing for your help. They are des­per­ately in need of blood donors. Accord­ing to infor­ma­tion pro­vided by the Red Cross, each day, patients across the United States need an aver­age of 44,000 units of red blood cells. That’s about 16-million dona­tions. A num­ber of blood …

A Defi­ance native and Army recruit was rec­og­nized at the Pen­ta­gon last month for her work as a sex­ual assault pre­ven­tion advo­cate. The Cres­cent News reports that 22 year old Natasha (Woodruff) Schuette was one of three women hon­ored dur­ing a Pen­ta­gon cer­e­mony com­mend­ing the women for their char­ac­ter, courage …

Thirty-one police offi­cers and sheriff’s deputies from north­west Ohio recently com­pleted an advanced emergency-vehicle dri­ving course at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lex­ing­ton. State casino rev­enue ded­i­cated to law enforce­ment train­ing pays for the pro­gram. Indi­vid­ual com­mu­ni­ties were required to pay their offi­cers’ expenses before the casino fund­ing became …