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A Defi­ance fam­ily lost their home and all their pos­ses­sions in a fire Fri­day morn­ing, and now they need every­thing to re-start their lives. Flames destroyed the home that Saman­tha Adkins shared at 401 Rulf St., with her two chil­dren and fiance, Nathan Brown. The first calls came in Fri­day …

A Defi­ance Grand Jury has indicted three peo­ple who allegedly oper­ated an “ille­gal gam­bling house” at the North­towne Mall in Defi­ance, and in four other com­mu­ni­ties. 38 year old Mar­vin Dabish, 39 year old Robert Dabish, and 59 year old Nadia Dabish, all of Ore­gon, are now fac­ing more than …

The improve­ments at the Defi­ance County cour­t­house will pro­ceed, how­ever they will now be done on a reduced scale, foll­wing a meet­ing that was held this week. The meet­ing of a com­mit­tee resulted in a vote, by a 5 to 2 mar­gin, not to pro­ceed with a full-scale ren­o­va­tion, which …

Well, here’s a sure sign of spring. A sign-up for a gar­den­ing plot in the Defi­ance Com­mu­nity Gar­den will be held on Wednes­day, March 18, at 9 a.m. and again at 7 p.m. that evening, at the county ser­vice garage, right behind the Defi­ance County Build­ing on East Sec­ond Street …

Fire­fight­ers rushed out Thurs­day morn­ing to a fire at the Lib­erty Cen­ter Post Office. The first call came in from a passerby just after 5am yes­ter­day, when that per­son said they saw a glow in the front win­dow of the build­ing on East Street. The fire was found in the …

The dri­ver of a trac­tor trailer is lucky fol­low­ing a crash Wednes­day morn­ing on US-24 west of Defi­ance. The dri­ver, whose name has not been released, was treated at ProMed­ica Defi­ance Regional Hos­pi­tal after his rig left the road­way just after 6am Wednes­day, trav­eled down a steep bank, into a …

Two kittens are alive today thanks to the efforts of a kind-hearted stranger. It was late Tuesday night when someone called 911 to report that someone in a vehicle had just thrown the kittens out the window near County Road J and County Road 16, north of Bryan. The caller …

A Defiance County grand jury has returned indictments against a number of people, some still secret, but a few that we can report on today. 42 year old Brian Ebersole of Bryan, was indicted on one count of burglary; two counts of theft; and one count of theft of drugs. …

A big honor for one area health care center. Mercy Defiance Hospital has been listed as one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals by Truven Health Analytics, a leading provider of data-driven analytics and solutions to improve the cost and quality of health care. Mercy Defiance Hospital is one of …

The name of the victim of a fatal fire in Wauseon on Monday has been released. According to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, 55 year old Joseph Carter, who lived at 10245 County Road 18 in Wauseon, died in the fire that started late Monday night. So far, the exact …