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In Paulding County…officers deploy a stop stick to end a high-speed chase. Sunny Parker, of Battle Creek, is charged with felony fleeing and eluding. She was taken to the Paulding County Jail. Officials tell reporters the police tried to pull Parker over for speeding on Highway127, south of Sherwood. The …

A Hicksville burglary leads to an unrelated arrest, with the potential for some drug-related arrests to come. Officers execute a search warrant at a E. Smith Street address, acting on a tip. This, in connection to a theft at a business in Hicksville, over the weekend. They find evidence related …

Area farmers packed Defiance’s Knights of Columbus hall…as state officials roll out a comprehensive government initiative to improve the quality of the Lake Erie watershed. Roughly, 450 attended. The meeting is one of four planned this month throughout northwest Ohio to explain the H2Ohio program that is being funded this …

Construction is approved for a new business coming to Edgerton, soon. Officials say plans to demolish a dilapidated house and a small building on the north side of Vine Street, just west of Ohio 49 are set, to make way for a new locally owned coffee shop, slated to be …

A sewer backup at a Defiance mobile home park has been remedied, but some final environmental abatement may be needed. Electricity to a sewer lift station at Northtowne Estates, near Northtowne Mall on North Clinton Street, failed and caused the backup. Officials discovered that power had been shut off to …

A co-defendant in a fire case, which caused severe damage to a Domersville Road home last year is sentenced in a Defiance County courtroom. Kage Seals, 21 was given a four-year prison term for aggravated arson. He also was ordered to make $8,069.77 restitution. Seals had pled guilty to the …

New dates are scheduled in the case of a Columbus man, who threatened a Putnam County retired judge. The presiding judge has been replaced. Kenneth Richey’s pretrial in Putnam County on charges of retaliation, violating a protection order and more, continues. He allegedly threatened retired Putnam County Judge, Randall Basinger …

Participation in Ohio’s voucher system, that pays for eligible public school students to attend private schools, would be based purely on family income in the future, not school performance, under a plan unveiled by House lawmakers. Under current law, Ohio’s EdChoice program provides private school tuition for students at public …

Area police finish a month-long investigation with a seizure of prescription pills, methamphetamine and more. Testing is still underway to confirm. Officers arrived at an Ohio 15, location in Holiday City. No arrests have been made in the case…as investigators continue to work the case.

A trial date is set for Donald Richcreek, the Oakwood man accused of killing his brother in 2019. A final pre-trial hearing is set for April 20…the trial date, May 5-8. Richcreek is accused of shooting his brother in the chest at a County Road 187 address in Oakwood back …