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The two men charged with robbing a man in the parking lot of the Village Food Emporium in Sherwood appeared in court for the first time yesterday. Dequavis Farris waived his preliminary hearing and was bound over for the county grand jury. His bond set at $150,000. The other man …

Most of the time, The Ohio Highway Patrol finds heroin or marijuana in cars traveling through the area. This time, it was liquid codeine they found on the Ohio Turnpike in Fulton County. Four people in a car with temporary Illinois plates were arrested after the stop for speeding. After …

An update on the semi driver injured in a rollover crash on northbound I-69 near the rest area at the 344 mile marker yesterday. The 44-year-old driver is Ronald Sherard from Cairo, Ohio. He went off the right side and over-corrected, rolling his semi and snarling traffic for hours. He …

A Hudson man wanted for failing to register as a sex offender in Steuben County has turned himself in. Levi Tink walked into the Steuben County jail after the Sheriff’s Department and U.S. Marshal’s Office were searching for him. He was booked into the Steuben County Jail, bond set at …

A man from Paulding is recovering today from a crash Wednesday morning. 25-year-old Rodney Osbun Jr., at last check was in “good” condition at Parkview Regional Hospital in Fort Wayne. According to the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office, Osbun was driving a Dodge 1500 on U.S. 127, north of Crane Township …

The loss of the River Street Market is devastating to the local community, according to Mayor Ray Delong. He said the fire that destroyed the market caused a “tremendous loss to the community.” He said “a small town without a grocery store is a dying town. It’s a terrible tragedy …

Par­ents of Defi­ance High School seniors who are plan­ning to major in edu­ca­tion this fall are reminded that schol­ar­ships are avail­able now for the Claude W. Hen­kle or Marie Kauser Memo­r­ial Schol­ar­ship. They are due by March 15th, and are avail­able from the Defi­ance High School coun­selors’ office.

Dona­tions have begun in Napoleon, for the annual Snow­man Cam­paign held by the group Together We Can Make a Dif­fer­ence. The group needs dona­tions of toi­letries and per­sonal care items for fam­i­lies in need in our area. Things like tooth­brushes, tooth­paste, bath soaps and even dia­pers. Dona­tions can be dropped …

In a follow-up to a story we brought you yes­ter­day, two peo­ple have been taken into cus­tody in the rob­bery of The Barn car­ry­out in Defi­ance on Mon­day night. First, the man, 32-year-old Joshua Brown is being charged with the rob­bery. The woman, 29-year-old Sheri Kraegel, was arrested on an …

The num­bers of job­less work­ers in the area last month showed Henry County had the high­est unem­ploy­ment rate at 5.5 per­cent. The Henry County Com­mis­sioner Glenn Miller said that rate stems from the lay­offs at Campbell’s Soup. The low­est job­less rate is for Put­nam County, now at 3.8 percent. Here …