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Kellie Gray is the new Williams County treasurer. Gray will replace Vicki Grimm, who was elected to the treasurer position in 2017. In November, Grimm ran for and won the position of Williams County auditor. Gray is on the Millcreek-West Unity Local Schools Board of Education. She will finish Grimm’s …

The Indiana Senate unanimously approves a bill that would ban the release of details in child neglect or abuse deaths to safeguard criminal cases. The bill now goes to Gov. Holcomb. The wide-ranging legislation includes a provision that would stop the release of information from the Indiana Department of Child …

Officers are looking for a vehicle, stolen from a County Road 10 home, north of Bryan. The driver left the keys in it. Anyone with information about the red vehicle or who stole it is asked to contact the sheriff’s office.

A Fulton County man is arrested on rape charges, as well as failing to register as a sex offender. Kurt Jones is currently being held at the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio.

A Defiance County man is picked up by police after an armed robbery in Hicksville. Henry Bernal is charged and taken to CCNO. They say he robbed the Marathon gas station on W. High St…he had a firearm. Deputies arrested Bernal at his residence. The incident remains under investigation.

Two people are in serious condition after a crash just north of Woodburn. Police and medics were called to the accident along U.S. 24, west of Bull Rapids Road. Witnesses told officers the vehicle was eastbound when the driver overcorrected and drove into a ditch. The car then rolled over …

A search for suspects in a residential break-in leads to a short stand-off at a home in southern DeKalb County. Police in Auburn were called to an address on Sprott Street… after a homeowner reported someone had broken in. Information led state police to a home on State Road 327, …

Williams County’s non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 3.7 percent in February, down from percent in January. The rate was under both the state and national levels and continues to be the lowest in the four-county area. An estimated 18,200 of the county’s 18,900-person workforce was on the clock in …

The Williams County coroner releases a preliminary report on the death of Anthony Wyse, of Montpelier. The official cause of Wyse’s death was drowning, with no signs of trauma or foul play. Deputies recovered Wyse’s body from the St. Joseph River near County Road J and McKarns Lake. The Williams …

Williams County prosecutors announce they have closed the investigation involving a sex offense by Father Nelson Beaver over 25 years ago at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Montpelier. The investigation was closed at the request of the alleged victim, now an adult. Beaver was a priest of the Diocese of …