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A train derail­ment spilled tons of coal just east of County Road 55 in DeKalb County near Auburn. Accord­ing to CSX, at least 12 cars derailed, and the dam­age to the tracks and the cars was exten­sive. WFFT reports that one per­son who told them they had lived next to …

After dis­cus­sions dur­ing the past two board meet­ings, mem­bers of the Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter joint Admin­is­tra­tive and Non-Profit board approved a new mis­sion state­ment that sup­ports peo­ple reach­ing their goals. The new mis­sion state­ment is now “Quadco exists to help peo­ple achieve their goals in life.“ Board mem­bers all agreed …

On Mon­day evening, the Ayersville Local Board of Edu­ca­tion, at their reg­u­larly sched­uled meet­ing, addressed pub­lic con­cerns about the upcom­ing bond issue at the May 6 pri­mary elec­tion. The Cres­cent News reports that n the bal­lot will be a 37-year, 7.86-mill bond issue com­bined with a 0.5 per­cent income tax …

The Tri-County Traf­fic Safety Part­ner­ship has announced an increased enfor­c­ment effort is under­way con­cern­ing seat belt and child restraint vio­la­tions, now until May 8th. The increased enforce­ment comes after the Angola Police Depart­ment said the Indi­ana Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Insti­tute has iden­ti­fied Steuben County as hav­ing a higher than aver­age num­ber …

In Henry County, two peo­ple who were arrested in a home break-in ear­lier this month have been bound over to the Henry County Grand Jury. 31 year old Leo Jef­fers, Jr waived his pre­lim­i­nary hear­ing on a felony charge of Break­ing and Enter­ing. 74 year old Ray­mond Barnes of Lib­erty …

Now that the third annual Henry County elec­tron­ics recy­cling roundup is his­tory, offi­cials there say 32 tons of elec­tronic recy­clables were turned-in on April 5th. The drive also raised money for the local schools. Napoleon high school col­lected over 18,000 pounds of elec­tron­ics, which gen­er­ated over $1,300, along with the …

A school bus acci­dent Mon­day morn­ing resulted in minor injuries, but police say it’s lucky no one was hurt more seri­ously. The Bryan Times reports twenty stu­dents were on Millcreek-West Unity Local Schools bus no. 5 yes­ter­day morn­ing when a car ran into the back of the bus. At least …

A new orga­ni­za­tion is form­ing in Ful­ton County with the aim of improv­ing the econ­omy. The Ful­ton County Com­mu­nity Improve­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (FCIC) announced last week that it is explor­ing the cre­ation of a private/public part­ner­ship orga­ni­za­tion that would fos­ter eco­nomic devel­op­ment through­out Ful­ton county. County offi­cials say that pri­vate busi­nesses …

The Ful­ton County Soil and Water Con­ser­va­tion Dis­trict now is tak­ing orders for the annual fish fin­ger­ling dis­tri­b­u­tion pro­gram. The dead­line to order is May 9. Pick-up is May 13 at the Ful­ton County Fair­grounds in Wauseon. Once all orders are received, cus­tomers will be noti­fied of their pick-up time. …

Lomont Hold­ings Co, which does busi­ness as Illu­mi­nated Image, and is a whole­sale sup­plier for retail sign com­pa­nies, announced plans on Mon­day to expand its oper­a­tions in Angola, cre­at­ing up to 20 new jobs by 2017. The com­pany will invest $1.1 mil­lion to lease, ren­o­vate and equip its cur­rent 50,000 …