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AT&T has upgraded its wireless network in Bryan, Napoleon, Fremont and Clyde after work on nearly a dozen cell towers. Online and phone service will be many times faster than before. Area city officials and the communications giant made the announcement over the weekend.

A woman is arraigned in a Defiance County courtroom for shooting her husband. Linda Osting pled not guilty to attempted aggravated murder and assault charges. A pretrial hearing is scheduled for March 1. The judge continued her $250,000 cash bond with a 10 percent allowance provision. Prosecutors say Osting shot …

John Skelton may have finally told the truth about his sons. He told a reporter off camera the teeth and bone fragments found in a shed behind a Missoula, Montana, residence last fall are “not his boys.” The reporter spent two hours with Skelton at the Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility …

Incumbent Jim Hoops, of Napoleon, will face off against Tom Liebrecht, of Putnam County, in the May 8 GOP primary for the 81st Ohio House District seat. We now hear Janet Breneman, of West Unity, filed as a Democrat for the seat prior to this week’s deadline for the primary. …

The Edgerton Village Council approves the resignation of the water and sewer superintendent there. Brad Fritch’s last day is today, but that won’t cause any problems as the council also approved a contract with Chad Ordway to be the operator of record, temporarily. Ordway was the wastewater operator in Edgerton …

Wednesday’s election filing deadline to qualify for the May 8 primary produced a short list of candidates and issues throughout the Defiance area’s six counties. Commissioner, Ryan Mack and Auditor, Jill Little will each seek a second four-year term. Democrats did not field a candidate in either race. In Henry …

First responders in Dekalb County are dispatched to a vehicle fire on Interstate 69 near the 326-mile marker. The Auburn Fire Department was able to put out the blaze. No one was in the vehicle. The registered owner is being charged with leaving the scene of an accident.

After an eight-month undercover operation, the Multi-Area Narcotics Task Force arrested six northwest Ohio residents on drug charges. Morgan Lucas, Nikita Coleman, Toby Warncke and Dustin Gonzales of Bryan for aggravated trafficking in drugs in the vicinity of a juvenile. Anita Shaneyfelt and Vincent Fell Jr. were also brought in …

Charles Farsht is sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to perform 40 hours of community service for illegally dumping old tires in Lima. Farsht was one of four people charged with illegally transporting and dumping scrap tires to the vacant lot there. Two of the other men, both …

Crews from six area fire departments take on a blaze in Defiance County’s Highland Township on Mansfield Road. When they arrived at the scene the structure was fully involved. The Homeowners were not in the home at the time of the fire. A family pet escaped the blaze. The cause …