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Four more peo­ple have been arraigned in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court on drug charges fol­low­ing their arrests on Mon­day. The four are part of the 27 peo­ple who were arrested recently in the case. Plead­ing not guilty to the charges on Tues­day were: 40 year old Bethany Ballew; 31 …

It was back on Jan­u­ary 22, when a search war­rant was exe­cuted at an apart­ment on West High Street in Bryan, and three peo­ple were arrested on drug charges. Now, not even a month later, offi­cers returned on Tues­day evening with another war­rant and three more peo­ple were taken into …

A project aimed at the clean up of the Pow­ell Creek water­shed in Defi­ance and Put­nam coun­ties has been extended until June. The Cres­cent News reports today that the Pow­ell Creek nutri­ent reduc­tion project was sched­uled to last two years, but now has been extended to June 30. The pro­gram …

Fol­low­ing the announce­ment last week that it was fil­ing bank­ruptcy and shut­ter­ing many stores nation­wide, Radio Shack has released a list of the stores it intends to close. Included on that list is the Radio Shack at the North­towne Mall in Defi­ance. The local store is among more than 1,700 …

The Pauld­ing Vil­lage Coun­cil has voted to enter into a con­tract for phase II of the com­bined sewer over­flow project, while at the same time, it talked about the finan­cial hard­ships pre­sented by the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency. The Cres­cent News reports that Pauld­ing coun­cil has passed a res­o­lu­tion autho­riz­ing the …

A man from Indi­ana was locked behind bars, fol­low­ing an inci­dent in which he drove his vehi­cle into a Defi­ance build­ing Sun­day morn­ing. 23 year old David Good­mann was south­bound on Degler Road, when he failed to stop at Spruce Street. He slameed his SUV into a build­ing occu­pied by …

More than 25 peo­ple were rounded up and arrested on drug charges Mon­day in Defi­ance County. The arrests yes­ter­day came fol­low­ing an under­cover drug inves­ti­ga­tion that took place over the past 18-months, focus­ing mainly on pre­scrip­tion opi­ates, cocaine and mar­i­juana. The lengthy inves­ti­ga­tion ended with 31 peo­ple being charged with …

A crash Sun­day after­noon in Henry County left five peo­ple injured. 35 year old Kelly Camp of Desh­ler, was north­bound on County Road 7 at County Road G and pulled into the path of a west­bound vehi­cle dri­ven by 19 year old Zachary Lanzer, also of Desh­ler. Lanzer’s vehi­cle slammed …

The Mont­pe­lier Exempted Vil­lage Board of Edu­ca­tion met last Thurs­day, and voted to hire Carla Rice as its new CFO and trea­surer. Rice was employed as interim CFO/treasurer at $27.73 per hour. Her three-year con­tract begins March 16 at a salary of $76,000 per year.

A Bryan man is behind bars fol­low­ing his arrest on Mon­day. Bryan Police col­lared 21 year old Shane Smith of South Beech Street in Bryan on two counts of Aggra­vated Men­ac­ing and one count of Dis­or­derly Con­duct. Smith was locked up in CCNO.