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Thanks to a grant from the Ohio Department of Education, Paulding Exempted Village School District will be getting more than a half million dollars to be earmarked for laptops for some 600 middle and high school students next year. The $600,000 grant will go toward providing laptop computers for students …

The inves­ti­ga­tion con­tin­ues today into the murder-suicide last week in Defi­ance that made national head­lines. Plans are being made for the funer­als of 68 year old Robart Garza, SR; his 61 year old wife Chris­tine; their 42 year old daugh­ter Zoila; and their 15 year old grand­daugh­ter, Rebecca. Inves­ti­ga­tors say …

Another catch and release over the week­end involv­ing Bryan Police. Early yes­ter­day morn­ing, around 2am, 23 year old Ste­fan Bates of Mont­pe­lier was caught and arrested for dri­ving under sus­pen­sion and for OVI. Accord­ing to Bryan Police, Bates was sim­ply released after being stopped. No other details were pro­vided by …

In Steuben County a pro­posed pig busi­ness con­tin­ues to gen­er­ate con­cern. State offi­cials have approved the farm where 4,800 pigs will be raised near Lake Gage. The Indi­ana Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment said K&D Con­tract Pork met the guide­lines to estab­lish the oper­a­tion. The project near Angola has met with …

Fol­low­ing a dis­tur­bance on Lin­coln Street in Arch­bold, Police in that com­mu­nity took action and made an arrest. Arch­bold Police called for assis­tance from the Henry County Sheriff’s office canine unit, but they were able to snag a sub­ject before the assis­tance arrived. 26 year old Heath Arm­strong of Arch­bold …

Kathryn L. (Davis) Robinson, 99 years, passed away on Sunday, February 9, 2014 in her home with her family at her side.  A life-long Williams County resident, Kathryn was born May 27, 1914 in Williams County, Ohio, the daughter of the late Wesley and Lula (Jolly) Davis.  She married Howard E. Robinson …

An inves­ti­ga­tion in Defi­ance County is under­way today into an appar­ent murder-suicide involv­ing four peo­ple. Defi­ance County Sher­iff David Westrick released infor­ma­tion that says offi­cers were called to the Robert Garza res­i­dence on Bow­man Road last night around 8:30 after three adults and a juve­nile were found dead inside that …

From Henry County Court, some news today… A Napoleon man, 57 year old Daniel Gon­za­les, plead guilty to two charges of Gross Sex­ual Impo­si­tion in a case involv­ing a vic­tim under 13 years of age. A pre-sentence inves­ti­ga­tion is being con­ducted. Lib­erty Cen­ter res­i­dent Jeff Tay­lor pled guilty to Pos­ses­sion …

Watch where you park in Defi­ance… The snow emer­gency plan is in effect in the city of Defi­ance today in order to make it eas­ier for crews to clean out the snow from the streets. Park­ing is pro­hib­ited on many down­town streets dur­ing spe­cific hours. Be sure you pay atten­tion …

Auburn police say they are still look­ing for a woman they say was respon­si­ble for steal­ing $900 worth of mer­chan­dise from the Auburn Wal-Mart store last Sat­ur­day after­noon. The woman was seen leav­ing the store park­ing lot in a red pas­sen­ger car. If you know who this woman is call …