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A man was hurt over the week­end in Bryan and now police are try­ing to fig­ure out just who he is. Ohio offi­cials are try­ing to find the iden­tity of the man after he was injured in a crash in Bryan on Sat­ur­day evening. The acci­dent occurred just after 6 …

Two new prin­ci­pals have been hired by Napoleon’s two parochial schools this year. David Kumm replaced Steven Wentzel as prin­ci­pal at St. Paul Lutheran School, and Jim George has taken over for Nancy Schroeder at St. Augus­tine Catholic School. As prin­ci­pal at St. Paul, Kumm now is in charge of …

The 11th annual First Fed­eral Bank chicken din­ner run to ben­e­fit the United Way of Defi­ance County will be held this Fri­day at 601 Clin­ton St. in Defi­ance. Har­lan chicken din­ners will be served from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Din­ners are $8.50 each and include half a bar­be­cued chicken and two …

A Cal­i­for­nia woman has shown her sup­port for her home­town of Adrian with a pair of $1 mil­lion gifts. Julia Argy­ros is donat­ing $1 mil­lion toward the $3.5 mil­lion cam­paign for the 150-year-old Croswell Opera House in Adrian as well as $1 mil­lion to the Adrian Schools Edu­ca­tional Foun­da­tion Arts …

Two Ful­ton County men fac­ing charges in con­nec­tion with a cold mur­der case were extra­dited to West Vir­ginia recently. 51 year old Charles Free­man of Arch­bold, had been arrested in Napoleon, while 58 year old David Hughes of Arch­bold, was arrested at his home there. Both were detained by area …

Bryan Police say they arrested a man from Geor­gia on theft charges. 44 year old William McClad­die of Mar­tinez, Geor­gia was picked up by Bryan Police on Thurs­day evening around 9:30 after he was accused of shoplift­ing. McClad­die was locked up in CCNO.

For­mer Henry County com­mis­sioner Rich Myers was sen­tenced on Thurs­day in Henry County Court to one year of com­mu­nity con­trol and 100 hours of com­mu­nity ser­vice for his role in hav­ing an unlaw­ful inter­est in a pub­lic con­tract. Myers was found guilty of the felony which stemmed from meet­ings in …

The Pauld­ing County Sheriff’s Office has pur­chased a Pre­scrip­tion Drug Drop Box to help res­i­dents dis­pose of old or expired pre­scrip­tions, includ­ing nar­cotics. The secured lock box will be stored in the sheriff’s office, but it’s imme­di­ately avail­able to the pub­lic. The sheriff’s office will only accept pill med­ica­tion. No …

Fire­fight­ers were called out to a house fire Thurs­day after­noon near West Otter Lake in Steuben County. The call for help came in just after 4 p.m., and fire crews from four area com­pa­nies were dis­patched to the blaze at 9500 County Road W. Crews quickly doused the flames, but …

Henry County offi­cers are look­ing into sev­eral recent crashes. The sheriff’s office says on U.S. 6 in Har­ri­son Town­ship near state route 110, a pickup dri­ven by 67 year old Ken­neth Meyer of Kansas was east­bound, and turned into the path of a semi dri­ven by 39 year old Jason …