News

The Defi­ance County Area Horse­men Asso­ci­a­tion announces that they are hold­ing their annual reverse raf­fle din­ner at 6 p.m. on Sat­ur­day, March 29 at the Defi­ance Knights of Colum­bus hall. All money raised dur­ing the night’s events will go toward har­ness rac­ing at the Defi­ance County Fair. Seats are lim­ited …

The Indi­ana state Court of Appeals has upheld a 105-year prison sen­tence for a north­east Indi­ana man con­victed of fatally shoot­ing another man and shoot­ing at a sheriff’s deputy dur­ing a chase. Accord­ing to the Her­ald Repub­li­can, 26-year-old Zao Garth Bur­rell of Angola appealed his sen­tence, argu­ing he didn’t deserve …

A power glitch Thurs­day morn­ing around 1 o’clock caused a spike in cur­rent that many peo­ple may not have even noticed while they slept. Accord­ing to The Bryan Times, a capac­i­tor at the Lock­wood Road sub­sta­tion detected a surge and acted to reduce it, as it should. The prob­lem came …

A woman from Defi­ance was injured when her vehi­cle slammed into a util­ity pole on a snow and ice cov­ered road in Noble Town­ship. Police say it hap­pened Wednes­day morn­ing as 21 year old Bethany Inbody was headed east on Ohio 15 and her vehi­cle went out of con­trol, off …

A CSX train derailed ear­lier this week in the vil­lage of Ham­ler. Offi­cials with the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion say the derail­ment hap­pened between 11 p.m. and mid­night Tues­day and 10–12 cars were involved. The cars were haul­ing grain and noth­ing was spilled. Roads and tracks in the area were …

Napoleon Coun­cil met this week, and coun­cil mem­bers got to take a look at financ­ing options for the new water plant project. City finance direc­tor Greg Heath reported that notes have been secured at one-half-percent inter­est for the engi­neer­ing and pre­lim­i­nary costs, which are esti­mated to be around 2.5 mil­lion …

A Steuben County cou­ple were arrested Wednes­day, accused of neglect­ing and mis­treat­ing a 6-year-old child 29 year old Christo­pher Wick­er­ham, and 32 year old April Wick­er­ham, both now face felony counts of neglect of a depen­dent and bat­tery to a child after an inves­ti­ga­tion by The Steuben County Sheriff’s Office …

The case against Vickie Cor­nell, owner of Skinny Lit­tle Buddy’s Ani­mal Shel­ter in Edon, is headed for trial. The trial, which is expected to last for up to three days, is set to begin Mon­day, March 24th, in Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. Cor­nell faces 20 counts of cru­elty to ani­mals. Back …

The Ohio Devel­op­ment Ser­vices Agency says it will extend the Home Energy Assis­tance Win­ter Cri­sis Pro­gram appli­ca­tion dead­line from March 31 to April 15. The pro­gram pro­vides assis­tance to eli­gi­ble house­holds that are threat­ened with dis­con­nec­tion, have been dis­con­nected or if their tank con­tains 35 per­cent or less of its …

A two-vehicle crash Wednes­day after­noon left a Mel­rose teen dead, and another man seri­ously injured. The Ohio High­way Patrol reports that 17 year old Robert Sef­fer­nick died at the scene of the crash on Ohio 637 in Van Wert County. It hap­pened yes­ter­day just before 3pm. 64 year old David …