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Several buildings in downtown LaGrange catch fire and burn for hours. The fire started in three buildings housing a Family Dollar store, Gould Sports and an ethnic grocer on North Detroit Street. Several hours into the blaze, the building housing the Family Dollar store collapsed. Then, the roof of the …

Police bring in a non-compliant sex offender from Steuben County, who’d been a fugitive for six months. Officers arrested Matthew Epperson in Marion County, Tennessee and extradited him back to Steuben County, where he was booked on charges. He’s being held without bond on two counts of felony failure to …

Ft. Wayne Police arrest a suspect they believe is involved in a death investigation. Officers were called to a stabbing on Northcrest Drive, they found a man with a wound to the abdomen in critical condition. The victim later died at a hospital. Officers later arrested 49-year-old Kathleen Theroit for …

An area woman is seriously injured in a crash on Fulton Lucas Road at Sylvania Avenue in Richfield Township. An SUV, driven by Teresa O’Neil was eastbound on Sylvania, approaching Fulton Lucas, when Richard Lair failed to yield to the right of way and struck O’Neal with his pickup. Both …

Crews respond to a fire in Defiance, on Ralston Ave. Highland and Noble Township fire departments helped out. Smoke and flames were seen coming from the two-story house upon their arrival. The fire was under control in minutes. The home was vacant. An investigator from the Ohio Fire Marshal’s Office …

A Continental man is sentenced to life in prison for sexual-related crimes in Putnam County. Shawn Budd has the possibility of parole after 15 years for the rape of a child under 10. Budd assaulted a girl younger than 3 in 2014.

Two area linemen are heading south to assist with damage to electrical systems caused by Hurricane Irma. North Western Electric Cooperative, along with other Ohio co-ops received a request from a group in Camilla, GA for mutual aid…as they were in the direct path of the hurricane. NWEC linemen, Tom …

Angola first responders are still looking for the cause of a fire at a West Pleasant Street residence on August 30th. The home was unoccupied at the time…it was being remolded. Officials have ruled the fire as suspicious.

A driver, who told officers he rear-ended another car on I-69, at mile marker 325, near Auburn…after being cut off by a third vehicle…is cited for following too close. Justin Jewett of Ohio was driving south when he ran into the back of another vehicle. Jewett told police he had …

A Bryan man dies in Montana. The body of Mark Presnar, 65, was found in the Bitterroot River near Riverside Park in Lolo, Montana, sometime over the weekend. Autopsy and toxicology reports are still pending completion. Investigators believe Presnar’s death isn’t suspicious. His family confirmed the death in a Facebook …