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Indi­ana State Police said Thurs­day that a man was arrested Wednes­day night after resist­ing police and throw­ing a one-pot meth lab. 39 year old Larry W. Wise­man was being held in the Steuben County Jail on pre­lim­i­nary charges of man­u­fac­tur­ing metham­phet­a­mine and resist­ing law enforce­ment. Police were mak­ing a traf­fic …

Appar­ently, the peo­ple of Ohio are not prone to restrain their lan­guage. The Seattle-based Marchex Insti­tute, in a recent study, found that Buck­eye State res­i­dents by and large, can swear along with the best sailors. The insti­tute stud­ied more than 600,000 phone calls placed in the last year from con­sumers …

A man has been arrested after mak­ing threats in Henry County. The Bryan Times reports that 37 year old Valentino Garza of Defi­ance was arrested Tues­day evening at Alex Prod­ucts when he reported for work there. Garza is accused of threat­en­ing the busi­ness in online com­ments on Face­book after the …

The Williams County Board of Health on Tues­day, denied a vari­ance request. Cory Not­man had been granted a vari­ance in 2009, allow­ing him to hook up a mobile home to the sewer on his prop­erty in Kun­kle while he was ren­o­vat­ing the house to live in. Now, accord­ing to The …

Defi­ance City Coun­cil sealed the deal on an annex­a­tion near U.S. 24 and Car­pen­ter Road on Tues­day night by approv­ing an ordi­nance accept­ing the annex­a­tion on Com­merce Drive. It brings about 46 acres of Rich­land Town­ship into the city next to Johns Manville’s Car­pen­ter Road plant and just south of …

The Amer­i­can Red Cross of Defi­ance is hold­ing a blood drive today from 2–7 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in the fel­low­ship hall at 400 Wayne Avenue in Defi­ance. All donors today will receive a cooler tote bag. To save time and sched­ule an appoint­ment, call 800–733-2767.

No one was injured, but some vehi­cles and a garage were destroyed by flames Tues­day in Defi­ance. Fire­fight­ers were called to 700 Perry St. at about 6:25 p.m. When crews arrived, the garage and a truck were heav­ily involved. Two vehi­cles were destroyed by the fire, one inside the garage …

Some Ohio con­ser­v­a­tives who say they were tar­geted by the Inter­nal Rev­enue Ser­vice are head­ing to Wash­ing­ton as fed­eral inves­ti­ga­tions widen into the agency’s han­dling of tax-exempt appli­ca­tions. Sev­eral activists on Wednes­day described IRS treat­ment they sus­pect was polit­i­cally moti­vated. The Jus­tice Depart­ment is open­ing a crim­i­nal probe into improper …

Two fires and a two car col­li­sion kept emer­gency respon­ders in Williams County busy Tues­day after­noon. Just before 3pm, Edger­ton fire­fight­ers were called out to a blaze at a mobile home on County Road 9 just south of Ohio 24. No one was home at the time and no injuries …

The fight is on to save jobs in Edon. The for­mer Diver­si­fied Machine Inc., now called Chas­six Inc., announced on April 23rd that the com­pany plans to close the Edon plant by Feb­ru­ary 2014, and most employ­ees are expected to be released by the end of 2013. Approx­i­mately 76 work­ers …