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Last week, Cecil Web­ster pleaded guilty to a domes­tic vio­lence charge. The 30 year-old will face the judge for sen­tenc­ing on Feb­ru­ary 10th.

A Mont­pe­lier man has been found guilty of non-support of depen­dents. 48-year-old Tyler Bowen pleaded guilty to the felony charge and will be sen­tenced on Feb­ru­ary 22nd.

A 30-year-old Bryan man pleaded guilty for impor­tun­ing and crim­i­nal child entice­ment. Zachary Dick­er­son was found guilty and will be sen­tenced on Feb­ru­ary 11th.

Cold weather is not stop­ping con­struc­tion on the new Bryan City Schools build­ing. With about half of the con­struc­tion site tem­porar­ily heated, it allows work to con­tinue. Among the man facets of con­struc­tion, right now they’re installing elec­tri­cal and util­i­ties. Con­crete floors were all com­pleted last month. Steel instal­la­tion needs …

A lit­tle bit of nos­tal­gia com­ing to the Sky­lark Club in Defi­ance. The first com­mu­nity dance for adults is hap­pen­ing this Sat­ur­day from 7 p.m to 11 p.m. with a DJ, dance instruc­tors and con­ces­sions. There will be ball­room, swing and coun­try line danc­ing at the club at 320 Jack­son …

An elec­tri­cal fire caused about $30,000 dam­age to a home in rural Wauseon on Sat­ur­day evening. The home on County Road H is owned by Scott and Lisa Ellinwood, and had been hav­ing an elec­tri­cal prob­lem before the fire was reported after 10 p.m. Fire­fight­ers found a fire in the …

Power to Defi­ance Ele­men­tary School was cut yes­ter­day morn­ing, forc­ing the school to dis­miss stu­dents from kinder­garten through the fifth grade around 11 a.m. The out­age was caused by line that was knocked down at the site of the new school going up nearby.

In Steuben County, the Sher­iff is look­ing for 33-year-old Shan­non Croghan, who has a war­rant for her arrest after fail­ing to return to law­ful deten­tion. She’s fac­ing a felony charge now, after being granted a 30-day tem­po­rary release from a theft case. She may be in the Auburn or Water­loo …

In DeKalb County, deputies stopped a car on I-69 at the Auburn exit and found over 14 pounds of pot. Two peo­ple were arrested, the dri­ver, 18-year-old Colt Mal­ott of Mar­ion, charged with deal­ing and other related charges. His pas­sen­ger, Kathryn Pogue of Broad­view Heights, was arrested for Dealing.

A for­mer pas­tor and sub­sti­tute bus dri­ver for Lib­erty Cen­ter Schools been charged with hav­ing child pornog­ra­phy. He’s 51-year-old Ger­ald Searle, charged with receiv­ing the images from 2013 to 2015. He was inves­ti­gated by the Office of the Inspec­tor Gen­eral, the Ohio Bureau of Crim­i­nal Inves­ti­ga­tion and being han­dled by …