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The Montpelier Municipal Pool will remain open in 2018. Kevin Brooks, village administrator, told village council he has met with members of the park board and they had decided to keep the facility running next year. Brooks added there may be some funding to make repairs to the clubhouse at …

A Defiance woman is sentenced after taking funds from her job. Katie Olea appeared for grand theft. She was placed on community control for four years and ordered to make $70,172 in restitution to the victim. She is also to have no contact with the Defiance business, Cashland. Olea was …

A Defiance man, who caused a fire at a Northside rental home last year, is sentenced. Jerry Kilpatrick was placed on community control for five years and ordered to pay $2,235.36 on a charge of aggravated arson. Prosecutors say Kilpatrick set fire to a home on Gibson St…it was gutted …

Residents in Melbern and Orchard Hills lost power Monday for a time after a single power line broke. The Bryan Fire Department extinguished the blaze, on County Road C at County Road 9. The county highway department deployed barricades to control traffic. 315 Toledo Edison customers lost power for about …

A Bryan woman is sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay a $10,750 fine for a phone scam. Tammi Buchs was indicted in October 2016 on 25 felony counts related to facilitating scams. Buchs participated in three, all in 2015. In the first, she received thousands of …

Indiana State troopers conducted “saturation patrols” in Steuben County over the weekend. Eight troopers patrolled the area and made several arrests for drug-related offenses. James Hubbard was arrested for invasion of privacy. He was pulled over by a trooper and was found two have three passengers in his vehicle he …

Southbound I-69 near the 24 interchange in Ft. Wayne was backed up after a fatal crash, involving at least one motorcycle. One person was killed. The accident is under investigation.

A Wisconsin man is in the LaGrange County Jail following a traffic stop on the Toll Road. Troopers pulled the vehicle over near the 115 mile marker for an equipment violation. They smelled the odor of raw marijuana. 33-year-old Kurt Frederick of Racine had cocaine, marijuana, LSD, ectasy, and psychedelic …

Crews were on the scene of a house fire in north Toledo on the 200 block of Weber, near Maple Street around 1 this morning. They arrived to find flames coming from the back of the house. Officials say there is damage to the exterior, as well as the interior …

Auburn Police wants the public’s help in identifying the suspect who stole liquor and a battery that belonged to an Auburn Wal-mart Employee. The incident happened on Tuesday at the store. The male got away with over $200.00 in liquor…he left the area in an older, black Chevy S-10 pickup.