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DEFIANCE MAN CHARGED IN DEATH OF INFANT

A five year old child is dead and now, a Defi­ance man has been arrested and charged with mur­der. Defi­ance Police were called to Cor­win Street in Defi­ance just after 7 Fri­day night on a report of a child not breath­ing. The five-month-old baby was taken to Defi­ance Regional Med­ical …

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FRAUD TRIAL SET FOR SEPTEMBER IN WILLIAMS COUNTY COURT

A court date has finally been set in a fraud case involv­ing some area res­i­dents. The Bryan Times is report­ing that the case against David and Nancy Jo Frazer of Bryan and Albert Rose­brock of Sher­wood will be headed to trial in Sep­tem­ber. Last sum­mer the Ohio Attor­ney General’s office …

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BRRRRRR!!!!!!!! IT’S COLD OUT THERE!!

The deep freeze is back, and fore­cast­ers now say it’s going to stick around for a few days. A giant arc­tic air mass has descended from Canada, and accord­ing to the National Weather Ser­vice, the wind chill will go to 40 below zero in our area by Wednes­day. If we …

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HOUSE FIRE IN PAULDING COUNTY

Sev­eral area fire depart­ments yes­ter­day morn­ing bat­tled a house fire on Pauld­ing County Road 209. The fire was reported around 9 Mon­day morning.

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HENRY COUNTY HEADLINES

A Napoleon man was bound over to the Henry County Grand Jury Mon­day on a felony charge of Domes­tic Vio­lence. 32 year old Justin Humphrey-Gainor waived his pre­lim­i­nary hear­ing in Munic­i­pal Court. He is being held on a cash bond of $30,000. –0– 40 year old Michael Prys­tash of Napoleon …

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M*A*S*H DEPLOYMENT DEMONSTRATED

A live deploy­ment demon­stra­tion of a mobile, 32-bed hos­pi­tal to be used in cri­sis sit­u­a­tions took place on Wednes­day at ProMed­ica Defi­ance Regional Hos­pi­tal. The mobile hos­pi­tal, owned by Hos­pi­tal Coun­cil of North­west Ohio, is deployed in one of two drills con­ducted every year. The hos­pi­tal is based on the …

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HENRY RAIL CROSSING UPGRADE SLATED

The Pub­lic Util­i­ties Com­mis­sion of Ohio has approved improve­ments at a rail­road cross­ing on Henry County E near Desh­ler that was the site of a fatal car-train crash. 48 year old Rebecca McCoy-Basore of Hamil­ton, Ohio, was killed last Feb­ru­ary when she failed to stop for a north­bound CSX train. …

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WILLIAMS SPELLING BEE SET

Hill­top Schools is host­ing the Williams County spelling bee on Tues­day. Com­pe­ti­tion gets under­way Tues­day evening at 6:30 with 18 stu­dents from nine county schools par­tic­i­pat­ing. The win­ner of the county bee will advance to the regional spelling bee to be held in Fort Wayne’s IPFW Rhine­hart Music Cen­ter Recital …

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WEATHER ADVISORY ISSUED

The win­ter blast is intense, and it shows no signs of let­ting up any­time soon. From the National Weather Ser­vice of north­ern Indi­ana early this morn­ing, just after 3:30, we received this update.. – A Win­ter Weather Advi­sory in effect from 10 a.m. today until 4 p.m. Saturday. – A …

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B-Rock Blizzard Auction This Saturday

B Rock is hav­ing its 35th annual Bliz­zard auc­tion this Sat­ur­day start­ing at 8am. We hold the auc­tion every year at this time, and each year an orga­ni­za­tion in NW Ohio is a recip­i­ent of the pro­ceeds of the auc­tion. This year, it’s the United Way of Williams County who …

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