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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.

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office has a new police dog to replace K-9 Max, who will be retiring at the end of the year. The new K-9, named Ruin is a 1 ½ yr. old Dutch/German Shepherd mix that was imported from Poland. Deputy Ken Jacob, a 17 yr. veteran, …

Officials in Williams County agree in a 2-1 vote to make the budget adjustments necessary to add two new sheriff’s deputies. Sheriff, Steve Towns requested roughly $160,000 in what he referred to as “monetary adjustments” to meet obligations for this year. Sheriff Towns also asked for an additional $222,000 for …

A motorcyclist is killed following a crash with a pick up truck in west Toledo. 23-year-old James Ketchum was headed down Laskey Road when the driver of the pick-up, 61-year-old Richard Rodriguez attempted to turn into a restaurant. Rodriguez’s truck hit Ketchum, throwing him from the vehicle. Both were transported …