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A Defi­ance busi­ness has dropped a law­suit it had filed against Defi­ance City Hall over annex­a­tion pol­icy after reach­ing an agree­ment with the city. Styke­main Enter­prises filed the suit last month, in which the busi­ness requested a pre­lim­i­nary injunc­tion to keep the city from shut­ting off water ser­vice and a …

Offi­cers with the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office arrested four peo­ple on drug-related charges Fri­day night after serv­ing a search war­rant at a Fre­mont home just before mid­night. Dur­ing the search, offi­cers found an active meth lab, along with items used to make meth, along with pot and meth inside the …

A woman from the Delta area who admit­ted she tried to shoot her teenage son to death was sen­tenced Fri­day to 10 years in prison. 57 year old Can­dis Sher­man pleaded guilty in Jan­u­ary in Ful­ton County Com­mon Pleas Court, to attempted aggra­vated mur­der with a firearms spec­i­fi­ca­tion. Sher­man admit­ted …

Bryan Police say Mon­day morn­ing around 8:30, they picked up 27 year old Alan J. Deetz of Bryan, on a “order of arrest” from the Ohio Adult Parole Author­ity on a pro­ba­tion vio­la­tion for fail­ing to notify author­i­ties of a change of address. He was taken to CCNO.

We may have “sprung ahead” this past week­end, and spring, accord­ing to the cal­en­dar is only a lit­tle more than a week away, but old man win­ter isn’t quite ready to release his icy grip yet. The National Weather Ser­vice has issued a Win­ter Storm Watch for Williams, Defi­ance, Henry, …

A park in Napoleon may soon be going to the dogs. The Cres­cent News reports that the Napoleon parks and recre­ation board has approved a rec­om­men­da­tion for the plan­ning and con­struc­tion of a dog park. Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Girls Scouts of West­ern Ohio and Napoleon have pro­posed that a dog …

Thirty-five horses are now con­firmed dead fol­low­ing a barn fire in Branch County, Michi­gan last week­end. The fire started Sat­ur­day around mid-day at a barn owned by Nathan Baker of Angola. The horses that died in the fire were report­edly owned by an Amish fam­ily. Fire­fight­ers say it appears that …

Bryan Police, early Sun­day morn­ing, arrested 51 year old Shelly Hayes of Bryan, for OVI and Dis­or­derly Con­duct after Warn­ing. Hayes was taken to CCNO. It hap­pened around 4:30 yes­ter­day morn­ing. Also on Sun­day, just before 8pm, police report that 18 year old Alexan­drea Nunn of Bryan, was arrested on …

The Henry County Sheriff’s Office reports a one-vehicle crash early Sat­ur­day morn­ing left a Free­dom Town­ship man dead. 28 year old Kyle H. Altherr was killed in the crash on Town­ship Road T near Town­ship Road 15B at 6:12 a.m. Sat­ur­day when he lost con­trol on the ice-covered road­way. Accord­ing …

Three build­ings that were owned by the Defi­ance chap­ter of the DAV were sold at auc­tion Sat­ur­day morn­ing. The high­est bid­der was Char­lene Grant of Defi­ance, who paid $130,000 for all the build­ings and about 4–1/2 acres of prop­erty, accord­ing to the Cres­cent News. Some­where between 35–40 peo­ple showed up …