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Bryan Couple Lead Police On Wild Chase — Drugs Behind Three State Persuit

A cou­ple from the Bryan area led law enforce­ment on a chase through three states early Tues­day morn­ing. It all began around 3:30 yes­ter­day morn­ing, and it ended with the arrests of the dri­ver, Gabe Gam­bler, and his pas­sen­ger, Jen­nifer Cul­bert­son. Bryan Police say they tried to stop the two …

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Library Shuttered Due To Water Problem

The Napoleon Pub­lic Library is closed until fur­ther notice due to a water main break. Every­thing there is shut down… even the library’s phones are out of ser­vice. If you have any books or other items that are due to be returned though, don’t worry… exten­sions will be granted and …

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Drug Problem Escalates In Bryan

The drug prob­lem in Bryan is grow­ing. To illus­trate that increas­ing prob­lem locally, lis­ten to this… Police found four meth labs in Bryan in just the past four days. On Sat­ur­day after­noon, police and fire crews responded to the 200 block of East Bryan Street when sus­pi­cious items were found …

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Early Morning Crash Reported On US-24

A crash on US-24 early this morn­ing shut down part of that high­way. It hap­pened around 4:30AM at the Ohio 108 over­pass in Napoleon, chok­ing off a por­tion of east­bound U.S. 24. Napoleon Police reported that a semi flipped on its side. There were no injuries. While crews cleaned up, …

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Ohio Holiday Stats Released

The Ohio State High­way Patrol made 690 arrests for impaired dri­ving and 391 for drug-related charges over this Fourth of July hol­i­day period. Seven peo­ple lost their lives in a total of six traf­fic crashes on state high­ways dur­ing the four-day report­ing period. The Patrol responded to 643 crashes and …

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Bomb Threat Called In To Defiance WalMart

A bomb threat at the Defi­ance Wal­mart Mon­day night brought out Defi­ance Police. The threat was phoned in at 6:16 p.m. when some­one called the Wal­Mart on North Cin­ton Street in Defi­ance, say­ing that there was a bomb in the store. Wal­mart man­age­ment imme­di­ately called 911 and the Defi­ance Fire …

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New Jobs Coming To Waterloo

A com­pany from Que­bec, Canada plans to set up shop in Water­loo and cre­ate up to 85 new jobs by 2018. Techo-Bloc is a man­u­fac­turer of high-end paving stones and patio blocks. The com­pany announced on Mon­day that it plans to invest over $34 mil­lion to estab­lish its Mid­west regional …

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Rollover Leaves Injuries Monday Night

Two were hurt in a rollover Mon­day night on I-69 near the Pok­agon (POH-KAY-GUN) State Park exit. The crash caused the north­bound side of the inter­state to be shut down for about an hour. It hap­pened just after 7:30 last night, when a Honda Accord dri­ven by 40-year-old Tim­o­thy McFellin …

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Steuben Sentencing

A man from Jonesville, Michi­gan will have to do 180 days of an 18 month sen­tence after enter­ing a guilty plea to a felony charge of intim­i­da­tion on Mon­day in Steuben Supe­rior Court. Terry Dendy was accused of threat­en­ing to kill employ­ees of a local com­pany in a pay dis­pute …

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Missing Man Found Unharmed

Accord­ing to a release on Sun­day from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Depart­ment, a Hamil­ton man who had been miss­ing since last Tues­day, has been found. 32-year-old Derek Pinkham was found fol­low­ing an alert that was issued on Sat­ur­day, when author­i­ties said they believed Pinkham may have been in dan­ger because …

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