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A dis­pute in Steuben County between the Com­mis­sion­ers and the County Humane Shel­ter… Com­mis­sion­ers took no action on a pro­posed con­tract with the Humane Soci­ety on June 15th over sev­eral con­cerns. The biggest stick­ing point… who in the county should get ser­vice from the Humane Soci­ety? The Soci­ety had agreed …

An inci­dent that halted traf­fic on the Indi­ana Toll Road in Lagrange County early yes­ter­day morn­ing, for­tu­nately ended peace­fully. Traf­fic was backed up Tues­day morn­ing, on the east­bound lanes of the high­way, when a man who police say may have men­tal health issues, report­edly doused him­self with gaso­line and threat­ened …

So far, it’s been a wet start to the sum­mer in Williams County. The National Weather Ser­vice says more than five inches of rain has fallen here since just last Thurs­day. In the Bryan area, the weather ser­vice says 5.27 inches of rain fell in the three-day period from June …

An ini­tial appear­ance was made on Tues­day in Williams County Com­mon Pleas Court, by a man who is accused of rape. 27 year old Justin Phipps of Crid­er­sville, is accused of rap­ing a young child under the age of 13 at the home of a friend in Bryan back in …

The Flood warn­ings con­tinue today in much if not most of north­west Ohio, and they will remain in effect until at least 12:45 this after­noon. Those flood warn­ings for urban and small streams include Williams, Defi­ance, Henry and Ful­ton Coun­ties. The lat­est reports indi­cate flood waters are reced­ing in most …

Flood­ing in Defi­ance has forced the city to move its annual fire­works dis­play. Accord­ing to a report in the Cres­cent News, Fri­day night’s fire­works are still sched­uled to be launched Fri­day evening at dusk at Diehl Park. Due to the flood­ing caused by the recent rains, ven­dors and other mid­way …

Bryan Police say early Mon­day morn­ing, just after mid­night, they arrested 33 year old Den­nis A. Pol­ing of Bryan who was charged with pos­ses­sion of a con­trolled sub­stance, pos­ses­sion of para­phena­lia, and lit­ter­ing. Pol­ing was also picked up on a bench war­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. Pol­ing was taken …

A Lake James man who pleaded guilty on Mon­day to three cases in Steuben Supe­rior Court, learned that he will be spend­ing the next 4 1/2 years behind bars. 29-year-old Danny Lee Rhudy was handed three-18 month con­sec­u­tive sen­tences on three felony counts includ­ing two counts for fail­ing to reg­is­ter …

The inves­ti­ga­tion con­tin­ues into a Sat­ur­day night acci­dent that injured a Hills­dale man when he was shocked by some live elec­tri­cal wires in Wright Town­ship. The crash hap­pened just after 10:30 Sat­ur­day night on Pitts­ford Road, when 45-year-old Joseph Fredrick Parson’s vehi­cle hydroplaned on some water that was over the …

A rollover acci­dent in DeKalb County is being blamed on the weekend’s down­pours. 59 year old Jack Sze­man of Hamil­ton was try­ing to enter I-69 on the south­bound entrance ramp from U.S. 6 when his Ford F-350 went out of con­trol on the water cov­ered pave­ment Sat­ur­day night just after …