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Payne House Fire Leaves Three Firefighters Slightly Injured

Three fire­fight­ers were hurt bat­tling a house fire in Payne on Mon­day after­noon. The fire­fight­ers, one from Pauld­ing and two oth­ers from Payne, were treated and released after being treated for minor injuries after they were called to a burn­ing home on South Laura Street in Payne. The home, owned …

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Rest Plaza Closing

As part of Phase One of its Travel Plaza Mas­ter Plan, the Indi­ana Toll Road will be clos­ing the Steuben County travel plaza build­ings and fuel sta­tions at the 146 mile marker on Thurs­day. Demo­li­tion is sched­uled to take place in 2016. It was decided to close the Steuben County …

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Rug Event In Archbold

Ten Thou­sand Vil­lages in Arch­bold, is being trans­formed into a rug gallery with tapes­tries laid out on plat­forms for easy view­ing dur­ing the fifth annual Fair Trade Ori­en­tal Rug Event that runs through Sat­ur­day. Accord­ing to store man­ager Eliz­a­beth Baer, each of the 300 rugs was made in Pak­istan. Ten …

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NAMI Vigil Set For Sunday

For 16 years, NAMI [NAH-me] Four County has lit a can­dle the first Sun­day of every Octo­ber to raise aware­ness, under­stand­ing and sup­port for indi­vid­u­als and fam­i­lies liv­ing with men­tal ill­ness as part of its Can­dle­light Vigil for Men­tal Health. The pub­lic is invited to this year’s event which will …

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Plea Deal Reached In Drug Case

A plea deal Mon­day in Steuben Cir­cuit Court, saw a Fre­mont man plead guilty to two felony charges for allegedly deal­ing metham­phet­a­mine. 24-year-old Niko­lus Nevois was arrested in March fol­low­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion by the IMAGE Drug Task Force in which he allegedly sold to a con­fi­den­tial infor­mant. Nevois was sched­uled …

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Missing Sex Offender Located And Arrested

A man who was being sought by the Steuben County Sheriff’s Depart­ment for not reg­is­ter­ing as a sex offender has been cap­tured in Sawyer County, Wis­con­sin. 62-year-old Bruce Sev­er­ance was arrested there by the Sawyer County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Mar­shals Ser­vice. Sev­er­ance was arrested for a vio­la­tion of …

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Williams County Sheriff Releases Little Information Surrounding Arrest Of Dawn Benton Of West Unity

Williams County Sher­iffs Deputies made an early morn­ing arrest today. 50 year old Dawn Ben­ton of West Unity was taken into cus­tody just before 1:30 this morn­ing on a domes­tic vio­lence charge. No other infor­ma­tion sur­round­ing that arrest was released

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3 Arrested In Connection With Williams County Break-Ins

A recent bur­glary lead Williams County deputies to a home in Bryan within sight of the old Williams County Sheriff’s Office. 37 year old Jes­teen Gutier­rez was arrested and charged with second-degree felony bur­glary. Also arrested was 20 year old Gabriel Wil­son, who was charged with fourth-degree felony receiv­ing stolen …

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Domestic Incident Leads To Standoff In Bryan

A Bryan man is behind bars today, fol­low­ing a domes­tic inci­dent that hap­pened over the week­end when he allegedly bar­ri­caded him­self in an apart­ment. 30 year old Cecil Web­ster has been charged with felony domes­tic vio­lence, resist­ing arrest, crim­i­nal dam­ag­ing, crim­i­nal tres­pass­ing and vio­lat­ing a pro­tec­tion order. He’s locked up …

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Outlook Bleak For CCNO If Toledo Defaults This Week

Just days before the city of Toledo’s fourth-quarter pay­ment is due, CCNO offi­cials had to take a sort of dooms­day look at some worse-case sce­nar­ios on Fri­day if Toledo can’t pay up. It was dur­ing a spe­cial meet­ing at the Henry County Emer­gency Oper­a­tions Cen­ter, and CCNO’s board mulled over …

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