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The Ohio High­way Patrol is remind­ing dri­vers to buckle up. The warn­ing comes after records indi­cate that six of the 12 peo­ple killed this year on Van Wert and Pauld­ing county roads who were not wear­ing seat belts. The National High­way Traf­fic Safety Admin­is­tra­tion esti­mates that 340 lives were saved …

A man who police already wanted for fail­ure to appear now faces new charges. 32 year old David Zer­vos is now accused of mak­ing meth near Sil­ver Lake. Just before mid­night on Christ­mas night, Steuben County Sheriff’s deputies and offi­cers from the Angola Police Depart­ment went to a home in …

Flood waters in Ottawa.… The Blan­chard River in Ottawa crested at 28.85 feet at 3 p.m. Mon­day. Flood stage is 23 feet. That crest, 28.85 feet, marks the sixth high­est his­tor­i­cal crest for the river in Ottawa. The high­est crest was 33.3 feet on March 13, 1913. The high­est crest …

Some news from Defi­ance Com­mon Pleas Court… 38 year old Earl Miller pleaded guilty to con­tribut­ing to the unruli­ness or delin­quency of a child. He was placed on non-reporting pro­ba­tion for three years and ordered to have no con­tact with female juve­niles (with one excep­tion) with­out per­mis­sion of his super­vis­ing …

The Sons of the Amer­i­can Legion will have a break­fast buf­fet from 7:30–11:30 a.m. Jan. 4 at the Wauseon Amer­i­can Legion on Shoop Avenue in Wauseon. The break­fast will include scram­bled eggs, pota­toes, bis­cuits and gravy, sausage, bacon and toast. There is also all-you-can-eat pan­cakes, French toast and eggs to …

A crash on Christ­mas Eve in Williams County left one per­son dead and another seri­ously injured. The Ohio High­way Patrol says two cars col­lided just before 1 Tues­day after­noon at County Roads 4 and F-50 south­east of Edon and about three miles from the Indi­ana bor­der. 42 year old Tim­o­thy …

Inves­ti­ga­tors in Henry County now say it may have been arson that caused a Sun­day night fire in a barn. The Lib­erty Cen­ter fire depart­ment responded to the scene. A minor rekin­dle sent fire­man back again. The state fire marshall’s office has been called-in to deter­mine if the blaze was …

Marcus J. Carter, age 35, of Montpelier, Ohio, died at 9:10 P.M. on Thursday, December 19, 2013 at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne. Marcus had worked at Metal Spinners in Angola, Indiana. Born July 6, 1978 in Toledo, Marcus was the son of Julie A Carter and Mark …

Life in prison with­out pos­si­bil­ity of parole. That’s the grim out­look now fac­ing 45 year old Judith Hawkey after she was sen­tenced Thurs­day after­noon in Defi­ance County Court. A jury on Novem­ber 8th, found Hawkey guilty of aggre­vated mur­der in the 2003 shoot­ing death of her hus­band, four counts of …

Emer­gency respon­ders in Williams County have been kept busy lately. Wednes­day night, fire fight­ers were called out to a sin­gle car fire inside the Goebel Wreck­ing Com­pany sal­vage yard As Bryan fire­fight­ers were clean­ing up that scene, another call came in for a barn fire on Ohio 249. The barn, …