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A man indicted for allegedly steal­ing from the Leip­sic Post Office while employed there this sum­mer will have a pre-trial con­fer­ence on Jan. 26. 20-year-old Dou­glas Bush entered a not guilty plea on mis­ap­pro­pri­a­tion of funds, which is a fed­eral charge. He is free on a $10,000 unse­cured bond. Bush …

U.S. Navy Petty Offi­cer 2nd Class Ran­dall Smith will be awarded the Pur­ple Heart pos­tu­mously. The Pauld­ing native died July 18 dur­ing the domes­tic ter­ror­ist attack on the Navy Oper­a­tions Sup­port Cen­ter in Chat­tanooga, Tenn. Smith was 26 when he died. More than 1,000 peo­ple attended the local ser­vices for …

Defi­ance City Schools super­in­ten­dent Mike Stru­ble held a sec­ond com­mu­nity pre­sen­ta­tion at Defi­ance Com­mu­nity Audi­to­rium. The topic was edu­ca­tion. Stru­ble went over pre­lim­i­nary results of the state report card, the finan­cial sta­tus of the dis­trict and the progress of construction. Prin­ci­pals have received only pre­lim­i­nary results for the 2014–15 school …

A BOLO alert, “Be on the Look­out”, was sent to Stryker and Spring­field Town­ship res­i­dents though the county’s Alert86 instant mes­sag­ing sys­tem. Many of the mes­sages got through, but oth­ers didn’t. Accord­ing to the direc­tor of the Williams County Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency Dawn Bald­win, the record­ing went to land­lines but …

If you’re dream­ing of a White Christ­mas, you may want to stay in bed. That pesky El Nino is keep­ing warm air over us and the National Weather Ser­vice says Santa will prob­a­bly need an umbrella, with rain pos­si­ble. In fact, the week before Christ­mas, at this point, the temps …

The Bryan Board of Pub­lic Affairs mem­ber Al Horn has retired. The 93-year-old com­mu­nity leader has served on the board since his appoint­ment in 2004. And Horn is going out on top. This year he was inducted into the Ohio Senior Cit­i­zens Hall of Fame in May. Then he was …

In other news, a Fort Wayne man was for­mally charged with drug offenses in Steuben County Mag­is­trates Court after he was arrested Fri­day. 61-year-old John Lin­ton Bar­ringer, Jr. is fac­ing a felony drug deal­ing and a mis­de­meanor traf­fic charge. Police found him asleep in an idling pickup truck that a …

At the new Napoleon Ele­men­tary school, there seems there was a mix-up. Super­in­ten­dent Dr. Steve Fogo changed the way the traf­fic will come onto the grounds and drop off stu­dents. And he appar­ently neglected to tell the city, which had approved other plans. The city noticed that the traf­fic flow …

A Napoleon city com­mit­tee is say­ing no to poul­try in the city. They’ve rec­om­mended that coun­cil not allow res­i­dents to own poul­try over con­cerns of noise, avian flu, waste, and hav­ing only one employee to enforce the zon­ing code. Other con­cerns included not want­ing to attract preda­tors like foxes and …

A 19-year-old rural Angola man will serve prison time after he admit­ted to try­ing to rob the Marathon gas sta­tion on West Maumee last Feb­ru­ary. Police said James Michael Moore used a BB gun that looked like a real hand gun dur­ing the rob­bery. The clerk showed Moore a knife …