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If you like smoked ribs, lis­ten up! Ten local non-profit groups will be smok­ing up racks of ribs for the 10th annual Henry County Rib Fest tomor­row in down­town Napoleon. It all gets under­way at 5:30 tomor­row after­noon at North Perry, West Wash­ing­ton and East Wash­ing­ton streets. Enter­tain­ment will be …

We have lim­ited infor­ma­tion this morn­ing con­cern­ing a fire at a build­ing last night in Delta. So far, we know that four fire sta­tions responded after flames broke out Tues­day night at a com­mu­ni­ca­tions build­ing on County Road H east of 109. Crews had to truck in water from area …

In DeKalb County, the dri­vers of two vehi­cles involved in a head on col­li­sion Tues­day morn­ing escaped with minor injuries. The acci­dent did how­ever, affect the morn­ing com­mute of many, as it hap­pened at about 6:50am on U.S. 6 at the entrance to south­bound I-69. 46-year-old Don­ald John­son Junior of …

After about two weeks, a miss­ing 15-year-old Henry County teenager has been found and is safe. 15 year old Zoe Rhoads was found on Mon­day in Winston-Salem, N.C. Rhoads’ father had reported her miss­ing on June 10th after she was reported to have been last seen at his McClure home. …

In Defi­ance, flood­ing closed Kings­bury Park early last week, and along with it the pool. That’s the same pool that just opened for the sea­son only a few weeks ear­lier. IT was last Wednes­day when flood­wa­ters spilled into the pool. After the flood waters receded, city work­ers began the cleanup …

Another drug arrest in Bryan… This time, it was 32 year old David Blake Jr of Cherry Street in Bryan, who was col­lared by Bryan Police. Blake was arrested early Sat­ur­day morn­ing… around 1am, and charged with felony pos­ses­sion of Metham­phet­a­mine. He was taken to CCNO. Then, a lit­tle later …

A man who robbed the CVS Phar­macy in Angola of med­ica­tions last July before lead­ing police on a chase which ended at the Lions Den adult book store north of Cold­wa­ter was sen­tenced on Mon­day in Steuben County Court, to nine years of a 12 year prison sen­tence. 40-year-old Joseph …

A Pleas­ant Lake man pleaded guilty to felony Sex­ual Mis­con­duct with a Minor on Mon­day in Steuben Cir­cuit Court. 45-year-old Charles Grime’s agree­ment calls for a sen­tenc­ing cap of eight years with four years of pro­ba­tion. There would also be a no con­tact order on behalf of the alleged vic­tim …

An eight-year-old boy was killed Sun­day night when he rode his bicy­cle into the path of a pickup truck near Orland. Accord­ing to the STeuben County Sheriff’s Office, the fatal acci­dent hap­pened just after 8pm on County Road 700 North, when 55-year-old Bucky Ster­ling of Orland was dri­ving west the …

The Amer­i­can Red Cross will hold sev­eral blood dri­ves in two coun­ties. A blood drive will be held on Mon­day, June 29, from 2:30–6:30 p.m. at the Fam­ily Chris­t­ian Cen­ter in Defi­ance. In Pauld­ing County, a blood drive will also be held on June 29, from 2–7 p.m. at the …