News

It’s been a rough win­ter on some area char­i­ties. In par­tic­u­lar, the Amer­i­can Red Cross has had to can­cel a num­ber of blood dri­ves in the area due to the bad weather. Now, here’s your chance to help them make up some ground. The Amer­i­can Red Cross of Henry County …

On Mon­day, the mayor of Find­lay, Lydia Miha­lik, gave her annual state of the city address. Mayor Miha­lik yes­ter­day, touted the progress of the last year and the bright future of 2014. She said the city is near­ing the final leg of the marathon to flood mit­i­ga­tion. The mayor said …

A small barn was destroyed by fire Sat­ur­day after­noon in Defi­ance County. Fire­fight­ers were called just after noon on Sat­ur­day to Flory Road where the build­ing, owned by Eric and Amanda West­hoven, was fully engulfed when they arrived. There were no reports of any­one hurt in the fire, how­ever a …

A Defi­ance County man has pleaded guilty in U.S. Dis­trict Court to a bill of infor­ma­tion charg­ing him with five counts of tax eva­sion. Michael W. Blake entered the guilty plea on Fri­day. Blake is now set to be sen­tenced July 28 by Judge Jef­frey Helmick, who accepted his plea …

This year’s harsh win­ter hasn’t caused the Defi­ance reser­voir oper­a­tion any major prob­lems. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, water plant super­in­ten­dent Adam McDow­ell reports that this win­ter has been less of a chal­lenge than the 2012–13 sea­son. The reser­voir, accord­ing to McDow­ell, is much fuller than it was at this …

A Napoleon man has been arrested on a felony charge of Fail­ing to Reg­is­ter a change of address as a Sex Offender. 34 year old Shan­non Hand is sched­uled in court today on that charge. Hand was orig­i­nally con­victed in Defi­ance County on a charge of Attempted Unlaw­ful Sex­ual Con­duct …

In Ful­ton County Com­mon Pleas Court, 37 year old Joshua Cas­sady of Wauseon pled guilty on Fri­day to Tres­pass­ing in a home when a per­son is likely to be present. Police say Cas­sady stole a tv from an Elm Street home in Wauseon in con­nec­tion with the same inci­dent. Cas­sady …

Thirty peo­ple were exposed to poi­so­nous fumes Thurs­day morn­ing after a roof at the Per­for­mance Food Group dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­ter on U.S. 6 in Kendal­lville, Indi­ana col­lapsed. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, the weight of heavy-wet snow caved in the roof, which caused a tank of anhy­drous ammo­nia to rup­ture. It …

The rash of house fires in our area con­tin­ued Thurs­day morn­ing when flames were reported at a home County Road 18.75 between Stryker and Bryan. The call came in around 8:45 yes­ter­day morn­ing. When fire­fight­ers arrived, they found the flames con­tained to a first-floor bed­room. Ice on the roads and …

Another roof col­lapse Thurs­day in Napoleon caused an ammo­nia leak and resulted in the evac­u­a­tion of sur­round­ing busi­nesses. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, it hap­pened yes­ter­day just before 1pm at Clover­leaf Cold Stor­age on Inde­pen­dence Drive when the roof col­lapsed near the dock­ing bay. Police say the area was evac­u­ated …