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Henry County has some big plans for a num­ber of roads and bridges this year. Henry County plans to resur­face four miles of roads and to chip and seal more than 36 miles of county high­ways, along with six bridge and cul­vert projects that are planned to be under­taken. The …

Dozens of law enforce­ment offi­cers from through­out north­west Ohio recently com­pleted advanced emer­gency vehi­cle oper­a­tions train­ing at a road-race course near Colum­bus. Six Han­cock County sheriff’s deputies, three from Pauld­ing County, three from Defi­ance, and two from Find­lay were among those who com­pleted the six-hour course offered by the Ohio …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Offi­cer reports that a Michi­gan man is behind bars fol­low­ing a high-speed chase. It started just before 2am Sat­ur­day when a Williams County deputy saw a vehi­cle trav­el­ing at a high rate of speed and headed east on U.S. 20A in Madi­son Town­ship. The deputy tried …

Bryan Police have been keep­ing busy. They report: 20 year old Nicholas Bishop of Bryan was arrested and charged with con­sum­ing under­age. He was released on his own recog­ni­zance. 19 year old Joshua Cox of Bryan was arrested and charged with two counts of fur­nish­ing alco­hol to a minor. He …

Police say alco­hol is sus­pected to be behind the crash in Put­nam County Thurs­day night which sent an Ottawa man by air ambu­lance to St. Rita’s Med­ical Cen­ter, Lima. The Ohio High­way patrol reports that a vehi­cle dri­ven by 27 year old Gre­gory White Jr was west­bound on U.S. 224 …

Flames early Fri­day morn­ing destroyed a home and vehi­cle in Steuben County about 15 min­utes from Angola. Four peo­ple who were in the home at the time the fire broke out, were all able to escape safely. Stephanie Hol­loway and her hus­band, Jason, along with their two chil­dren, 2 year …

A Wauseon woman has been indicted by a Ful­ton County grand jury for con­vert­ing money from a Cub Scout pack to her own use. 42 year old Kathryn Fau­verr was charged fol­low­ing a four week inves­ti­ga­tion by police who say she embezzeled more than $1500 from Cub Scout Pack 8’s …

Sher­iff Steve Towns met with the Williams County May­ors’ Asso­ci­a­tion on Wednes­day night. The Sher­iff told the group that con­cealed carry per­mit requests sky­rock­eted in 2013 after the Sandy Hook school shoot­ing and the push for gun-control leg­is­la­tion after­wards. He also told the group that he’s assigned one deputy as …

Thirty-three peo­ple on Tinora High School’s spring break trip to Ger­many have had their flight can­celled due to a work­ers’ strike in Ger­many. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, the group will remain stranded in Frank­fort for an extra day after hun­dreds of flights sched­uled at Ger­man air­ports were can­celled when …

Dri­vers in Pauld­ing County will soon see road crews out there, who will be doing mea­sur­ing and mak­ing plans for the 16 miles of resur­fac­ing work that will get under­way later this year. It’s going to be a pricey job, with an esti­mated price tag of $1.1 mil­lion. The county …