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Spooks or Science?…A scarecrow just suddenly bursts into flames at a Greystone Drive residence in Bryan. Seriously. Looking at the calendar, it has some suspecting scary tales or ghosts and goblins making a visit. No. Crews put out the fire pretty fast. The owner put a real scarecrow, straw and …

Three Sherwood teenagers are hurt in a solo crash in Defiance County. Officers say the vehicle was traveling on The Bend Road, north of Defiance County Road 424…it left the roadway, hitting a utility pole and landing on its top. Damage was heavy. Corbin Sines was flown to Mercy St. …

Troopers are investigating an incident where shots were fired at a passing semi on the Toll Road in Steuben County. The police says the shots came from an overpass near the 146 mile marker, just east of the exit for I69 and Angola. The driver reported seeing two flashes of …

Steuben County Emergency Management officials will be testing out the county tornado siren system at some point in the next week. They are installing new equipment. An exact time of activation is unknown…it will be shorter than the normal 3 minutes.

Investigators say rags in a floor staining project may have been the cause of a structure fire near Orland on North State Road. The resident at the mobile home told firefighters a neighbor had seen the smoke and woke her up by beating on the side of the home. One …

An alert employee at the Edon Main Stop on Ohio 49 finds two credit card skimmers attached to some gas pumps…skimmers were soon found at two gas stations in Edgerton as well.

A motorcycle accident south of Quincy leaves one person injured. The crash happened in Algansee Township on South Fremont Road just south of Middle Lake Drive. The victim was taken to the Community Health Center of Branch County. No word on the extent of the motorcyclists injuries.

A tree stand falls in Steuben County, injuring a deer hunter on the first day of the season in the Pigeon River Fish and Wildlife Area. Two other hunters heard someone yelling and followed the voice to where 33-year-old Brent Chester was laying injured at the bottom of the tree …

Williams County faces a projected $35,000 shortfall in its sewer budget this year. Officials say a 77 percent base fee increase in city of Bryan sewer rates initiated last year is to blame.

A Sherwood man is sentenced to life in prison. Jimmy Pelliccia plead guilty to four counts of rape. Defiance County investigators and the FBI determined Pelliccia had engaged in sexual conduct with two girls, both under the age of 10, between September 2016 and this past January.