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A Pauld­ing County man was sen­tenced to 30 months in prison for his role in run­ning a meth lab in Ful­ton County. 24-year-old Philip Snider pled guilty to charges of meth pro­duc­tion for inci­dents that occurred last win­ter. Snider’s dri­vers license will also be sus­pended for three years.

A long-term con­struc­tion project on Inter­state 69 is set to kick off today, weather per­mit­ting, in DeKalb County. The work will con­struct two new bridges just south of Route 8 between exits 326 and 329, start­ing on the south­bound side with asphalt work in prepa­ra­tion for a traf­fic pat­tern shift. …

New secu­rity screen­ing mea­sures are closer to fruition at the Williams County Cour­t­house. A walk-through metal detec­tor, though not yet in oper­a­tion, has already been installed at the pub­lic entrance on the west side of the build­ing. Ear­lier this week, court offi­cials approved an order to hire a full-time secu­rity …

The National Weather Ser­vice has con­firmed that a tor­nado touched down in north­ern Hills­boro County last week. The tor­nado struck just after 6:20pm on April 9 with straight-line winds esti­mated at 85 miles-per-hour. Dam­age was min­i­mal, though a barn was pushed off its foun­da­tion, and two trees landed on an …

Today is the last day to RSVP for the new middle-and-high school ground­break­ing event sched­uled for this com­ing Thurs­day, April 23, at 10:30am on Foun­tain Grove Drive. The con­struc­tion is the first phase in a mas­ter plan that will unite all stu­dents from pre-K to 12th grade on one cam­pus. …

A train derailed yes­ter­day morn­ing in Napoleon, tem­porar­ily block­ing the inter­sec­tion of Glen­wood and Wash­ing­ton. The train was car­ry­ing tomato paste, so no HAZMAT sit­u­a­tion here, but two cars did over­turn, caus­ing some dam­age to about 100 feet of track, which will have to be repaired once the cars are …

Vol­un­teers at the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio received spe­cial recog­ni­tion, includ­ing hon­or­ing the Vol­un­teer of the Year, dur­ing the 24th annual Vol­un­teer Recog­ni­tion Ban­quet held Tues­day. Vol­un­teer Jim Scruta of Napoleon, who has been a vol­un­teer there since 2001, was named the CCNO Vol­un­teer of the Year for 2014. …

Well now, this is kind of spooky. The for­mer Pauld­ing County jail will soon, accord­ing to plans laid out by it’s new owner, become a new his­tor­i­cal attrac­tion and para­nor­mal research cen­ter. Shelly Burk Robert­son of Indi­anapo­lis pur­chased the prop­erty for $15,000. Robert­son grew up in Van Wert County. She …

Bryan Police nabbed an Illi­nois woman early Wednes­day morn­ing. 23 year old Lativa Spencer of Calu­ment City was charged with felony van­dal­ism. Spencer was locked up in CCNO. Bryan Police did not pro­vide any addi­tional infor­ma­tion such as what prop­erty was van­dal­ized or what the spe­cific dam­ages were.

Believe it or not, under­wear is a cause of con­cern in some jails, but the “bot­tom” line, so to speak, is that no con­tra­band is dis­cov­ered in the waist­band. The Bryan Times reports that in Franklin County, the County Cor­rec­tions Divi­sion issued a press release, in which it said that …