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The autopsy results are in, and the cause of death for Jonathan Hofner was mul­ti­ple gun­shots to the head. The Williams County Coro­ner Dr. Kevin Park said though the victim’s body was decom­posed, they were able to iden­tify Hofner through den­tal records. The sus­pect in his death is Bradley Gilbert …

An Edger­ton man was sen­tenced to 4 years in prison after plead­ing guilty to unlaw­ful sex­ual con­duct with a minor in Williams County Com­mon Pleas Court. Samp­son Williams must also reg­is­ter as a tier two sex offender.

The IRS scam just won’t go away. Sher­iff Michael Boden­ben­der in Henry County is warn­ing res­i­dents about the lat­est scam. Accord­ing to his office, poten­tial vic­tims receive a call at home by some­one claim­ing to be the IRS. They explain you owe back taxes, and if you don’t pay imme­di­ately, …

Gen­eral Motors set­tled an asbestos-related law­suit yes­ter­day with the sur­viv­ing spouse of a deceased employee in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court. Sam­mie Jones worked at the GM plant in Defi­ance and died of lung can­cer in 2007. His widow, Judy, filed with the Bureau of Work­ers Com­pen­sa­tion because he had …

A com­pany in Napoleon is relo­cat­ing to Defi­ance and bring­ing about 100 jobs to the city. The com­pany, B&B Molded Prod­ucts, will be mov­ing in to the for­mer Compo Muf­fler fac­tory on Ottawa Avenue. They’re sink­ing about two and a half mil­lion dol­lars into ren­o­vat­ing the com­plex. They make cus­tom …

It wasn’t your imag­i­na­tion or wish­ful think­ing, Decem­ber was one of the warmest ever on record. The aver­age daily high tem­per­a­ture was 48.7 degrees, 13 degrees warmer than the year before. We had 4 days over 60 degrees, and two weeks of temps over 50. There was no sig­nif­i­cant snowfall.

Dog licenses are due by Jan­u­ary 31st for all of man’s best friends who are older than three months old. Licenses are $16 dol­lars and avail­able at the county dog pound. Own­ers that don’t license their dogs are sub­ject to a fine and pos­si­ble court action if the dog gets …

Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers have ten­ta­tively ok’d a request to annex 10-acres into the city of Bryan. Those two parcels are adja­cent to the Williams County Regional Air­port. The peti­tion­ers, Dan Esh­man Jr., and Nathan and Thonda James, want the annex­a­tion to have access to city util­i­ties. There were no objec­tions. …

In case you hap­pen to win big in last nights nearly half a bil­lion dol­lar power­ball, a local attor­ney has some advice. Jim Weaner who prac­tices in Defi­ance, told the Cres­cent News that the first thing to do is tell your spouse and no one else. He said it’s impor­tant …

In Hicksville, Deputies and Police served a search war­rant at a home on Oscar St. and arrested three peo­ple about 8 p.m. A drug task force was look­ing for a sus­pected active metham­phet­a­mine labs, which were report­edly found, removed and neu­tral­ized. The three arrested include 51-year-old Ken­neth Knapp of Hicksville, …