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The Defi­ance Health Department’s “Know Your Num­bers” health screen pro­gram will be held at the North­towne Mall on Thurs­day, Dec. 5, from 9–11:30 a.m. Included in this health screen are blood pres­sure, pulse, res­pi­ra­tions, cho­les­terol, hemo­glo­bin and blood sugar. Per­sons 18 years old or older are wel­come. For more infor­ma­tion, …

A lawyer for a 31-year-old sol­dier accused of stran­gling one man and stab­bing another dur­ing a trip to see his estranged wife in south­east­ern Michi­gan says he may pur­sue an insan­ity defense. Thirty-one-year-old Pfc. Brian Gogue of Mary­land awaits trial on open mur­der and attempted mur­der charges. He appeared Wednes­day …

Only one com­pany sub­mit­ted a bid for the project to upgrade the heating-ventillation-and air con­di­tion­ing con­trol sys­tem for the Henry County Cour­t­house. That pro­posal from Lake Erie Elec­tric of Bowl­ing Green was reviewed last week by the board, and had a price tag of $43,505; which is about $6,000 under …

A Michi­gan man went to a hos­pi­tal after crash­ing his truck in Steuben County Sun­day after­noon. Steuben County Sheriff’s Depart­ment offi­cers responded to 5380 N 450 W around 4:30 p.m. When emer­gency respon­ders arrived, they found a 2005 Ford F250 pick-up truck in the yard. Offi­cials said the truck went …

Bryan Police on Sun­day arrested 25 year old Sonya L. Mosler of Bryan on a war­rant out of Ful­ton County Court for fail­ing to appear. She was taken to CCNO. Also yes­ter­day just before 5pm, Bryan Police arrested 41 year old Rod­ney R. Walker of Bryan for Dis­or­derly Con­duct after …

The hol­i­day shop­ping sea­son got under­way for many yes­ter­day at the same time many oth­ers were enjoy­ing their tra­di­tional Thanks­giv­ing feast. This year, more retail­ers kicked off the hol­i­day shop­ping sea­son on Thanks­giv­ing Day instead of Black Fri­day, in hopes of get­ting a head-start on the lucritive hol­i­day dol­lars. Accord­ing …

The Lib­erty Cen­ter Local Board of Edu­ca­tion is ask­ing res­i­dents for their input and thoughts about the loca­tion of a pro­posed new pre-kindergarten through grade 12 school. On Tues­day night, many showed up at a meet­ing to offer just that. The first 85 min­utes of the school board’s meet­ing Tues­day …

The 2014 bud­get option before Defi­ance City Coun­cil was given a first look Tues­day night. Fol­low­ing a first read­ing, coun­cil let lie the ordi­nance which would approve the bud­get, six days after the county’s board of elec­tions cer­ti­fied that the city’s 0.3-percent income tax for police and fire ser­vices passed. …

Ten days after two storms left destruc­tion in their wake, Put­nam County is on the road to recov­ery. The small vil­lage of Cloverdale was effec­tively “ground zero” for one storm cell which spawned a Cat­e­gory EF2 tor­nado on Nov. 17. Four fam­i­lies who rode out the storm in the Cloverdale …

Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter is set to hold their 2nd annual ben­e­fit and gift shop open house a week after Thanks­giv­ing at their Stryker build­ing. Since last year’s ben­e­fit proved so pop­u­lar, they are once again plan­ning to hold a din­ner in the cafe­te­ria. This year’s menu will include spaghetti, bread­sticks, …