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A Springfield, Mo., man is brought in by police after a high-speed pursuit through Defiance and Paulding counties. Michael St. Onge is charged with two felonies in the chase, plus his car was stolen. Officials say the chase begins on eastbound 24, when a state trooper tries to pull over …

A Stryker woman dies behind the wheel. First responders were dispatched to the 115 mile marker on the Toll Road in LaGrange County. Both directions of the roadway were closed for a time as crews cleared the crash scene. Investigators say Marie Besancon was driving west when she went across …

Two 16-year-old male Montpelier students find themselves in some trouble in connection to a threat made to Montpelier Schools back on Nov. 9. A threat found written on a bathroom stall, detailed a date, time and the use of a bomb. That threat led to the evacuation of the school. …

Prosecutors tell the court a Montpelier man injected someone with fentanyl while the victim was asleep back in April…they win the case and that gets Travis Whaley five years in prison. He initially pled not guilty to a second-degree felony charge of assault on July 30 but changed his plea …

There’s some belt tightening over in Edon. Officials there have released the preliminary 2019 budget for the Village…it calls for a decrease of around $27,000 from this year. There will be changes to that number as the budget goes through its annual scrutiny. The final budget will be set in …

Top Republican legislative leaders in Indiana don’t expect lawmakers will take any action toward removing state Attorney General, Curtis Hill from office…even though the governor and other state officials have called on him to resign over allegations that he drunkenly groped four women during a party. There are too many …

It’s time for the Turkey Trot over in Defiance! For the 21st year the Defiance Lions Club hosts the event. The four-mile run and a fun walk, will be held at Independence Dam State Park, east of Defiance. The fee for the fundraiser is $35 for runners and $20 for …

It was a lot of fun in Montpelier on Saturday. It was time for the annual Olde Tyme Holiday Gathering. There were craft fairs, book get togethers, bingo…and the kids got together for a brass band recital. Later in the evening, people braved the cold to see some reindeer up …

A plan, to develop a countrywide monitoring system to track the status of residential sewage treatment systems in Williams County is nearing implementation.. Officials say the focus of the plan is to make homeowners responsible for the maintenance of their septic systems. The plan has a 2019 start date.

After last week’s news that test drilling for the aquifer are underway…more on the pushback against it. Jeremy Rentz, an environmental engineering professor at Trine University, told the roughly 100 or so people at a meeting in Pioneer withdrawing 10 million gallons of water per day from the Michindoh Aquifer …