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The inves­ti­ga­tion is con­tin­u­ing, but police now say they believe it was a com­bi­na­tion of alco­hol and speed that lead to a rollover crash Sun­day night that crit­i­cally injured a man from Angola. 30 year old Joseph Glenn ran off State Road 827 south of Fre­mont when he missed a …

A jury in Defi­ance County on Fri­day found a woman guilty of aggra­vated mur­der and five other charges. The ver­dict was handed down against 46 year old Judith Hawkey on charges of aggra­vated mur­der; four counts of endan­ger­ing chil­dren; and insur­ance fraud. Hawkey’s $3 mil­lion bond was imme­di­ately revoked, and …

Police say a teacher who was try­ing to help a stray dog in the park­ing lot of ele­men­tary school in Toledo, found a man who had been shot. The teacher says the man just came right up to her and told her that he’d been shot. Toledo police say Matthew …

Final num­bers are in and they look pretty impres­sive. The seven Relay for Life events held in six north­west Ohio coun­ties in June, Defi­ance, Henry, Pauld­ing, Put­nam, Williams and Ful­ton, with the Vil­lage of Hicksville in Defi­ance County, hold­ing its own relay, raised a total of $942,390 for 2013. The …

A bar­ren grave site of a Civil War vet­eran is no longer unmarked after a 142-year wait, due to the efforts of two descen­dants. John Cranston, a Civil War Union sol­dier from Co. A 17th Reg­i­ment Kansas Vol­un­teer Infantry, died May 19, 1871, after the war. He is buried in …

One per­son was injured in a single-vehicle crash Thurs­day after­noon on The Bend Road in Defi­ance County. The crash hap­pened just before 1pm when a south­bound vehi­cle dri­ven by 77 year old Pauline Boroff of Pauld­ing, left the road and struck a util­ity pole, sheer­ing it off at the base. …

Tes­ti­mony in the mur­der trial of 46 year old Judith Hawkey con­cluded Thurs­day after­noon in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court. Hawkey is charged with aggra­vated mur­der; four counts of endan­ger­ing chil­dren; and insur­ance fraud in con­nec­tion with the death back in Novem­ber of 2003 of her hus­banc. Her trial began …

The North­west­ern Ohio Com­mu­nity Action Com­mis­sion (NOCAC) is host­ing a hunger ban­quet on Nov. 19 — to raise aware­ness of hunger issues in north­west Ohio. The ban­quet will be from 5:30–8 p.m. at the UAW Hall in Defi­ance. Tick­ets are $10 for adults and $5 for col­lege stu­dents and chil­dren. …

The Henry County com­mis­sion­ers this week, approved an annex­a­tion request from Napoleon Area Schools for the annex­a­tion of 55.062 acres in the city of Napoleon. The city had approved an emer­gency mea­sure on Oct. 9 con­sent­ing to the annex­a­tion and stat­ing that city ser­vices would be pro­vided to the annex­a­tion. …

The Defi­ance Elks Lodge will com­mem­o­rate Vet­er­ans Day with its 12th annual break­fast fundraiser on Sun­day to ben­e­fit local vet­er­ans in assisted liv­ing or nurs­ing homes. The break­fast is open to the pub­lic. This year’s event is Sun­day from 8 a.m.-noon at the local lodge, 1760 S. Jef­fer­son Ave. in …