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Dona­tions for Henry County’s Shop with a Deputy pro­gram are still being accepted. The annual event will be held Dec. 12 at the Napoleon Wal­mart. Dona­tions can be dropped off at the Henry County Sheriff’s Office, 123 E. Wash­ing­ton St., Napoleon, or mailed to that address. Deputy Mark Glanz said …

Sue Kehnast was one of 77 employ­ees of Mercy Defi­ance Clinic and affil­i­ates for years of ser­vice. Sue tops the list hav­ing worked 45 year serv­ing the med­ical needs of the com­mu­nity, fol­lowed by Dr. Robert Fold­vary and Lau­rie McCann, both at 40 years of service. The 77, who work …

Friends and fam­ily of a Hicksville high school stu­dent are in mourn­ing today after the 17-year-old lost his fight with bone can­cer. Noah Karac­son died on Tues­day. He was diag­nosed with Ewing sar­coma in 2012. The Hicksville com­mu­nity ral­lied around the well-liked teen, rais­ing money for his expenses and hon­or­ing …

Defi­ance Pub­lish­ing Com­pany, the par­ent com­pany of The Crescent-News and other area pub­li­ca­tions has been pur­chased by Adams Pub­lish­ing Group in Min­nesota. Steve Van­De­mark will con­tinue as pub­lisher. The Adams Pub­lish­ing Group is a family-owned media com­pany, which pro­duces com­mu­nity news­pa­pers, events, dig­i­tal prod­ucts and spe­cialty mag­a­zines. They own radio …

In the lat­est OVI enforce­ment over last week­end, The Ohio State High­way Patrol arrested 399 dri­vers, an 81 per­cent increase from the same week­end two years ago, and 40 per­cent more than last year at this time. The high-visibility enforce­ment began Fri­day, Decem­ber 4 and ended Sun­day, Decem­ber 6. Troop­ers from …

Two men were taken to CCNO on out­stand­ing warrants. 36-year-old William Bar­nett of Wauseon was arrested on a war­rant from Ful­ton County. At an unre­lated inci­dent, 35-year-old Andrew Kendall of Bryan was arrested for resist­ing arrest. He had two felony war­rants issued in Williams County.

A Pauld­ing man charged with rob­beries in two local coun­ties was arraigned Mon­day in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court. 26-year-old John Gos­nell pleaded not guilty to aggra­vated rob­bery, a first-degree felony with a firearm spec­i­fi­ca­tion. A pre­trial hear­ing was sched­uled for Jan. 7. Gos­nell allegedly robbed Defiance’s Speed­way store, 1802 …

An escaped fugi­tive was taken into cus­tody at the Love’s Travel Plaza at I-69 and U.S. 20 in Steuben County at about 5:30pm Mon­day evening. Steuben County Sher­iff Tim Troyer says Charles Adams was rec­og­nized by some­one at the truck­stop. Troyer says the 28-year-old tried to flee but was quickly …

The North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Board of Trustees has voted to reject the rec­om­men­da­tions of the State Employ­ment Rela­tions Board regard­ing a pos­si­ble new three-year staff con­tract. The board chair, Sue Derck, said they were dis­ap­pointed in the fact-finders report, say­ing that they didn’t take into con­sid­er­a­tion changed to health …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol is shift­ing focus now to enforc­ing com­mer­cial vehi­cle laws, includ­ing speed, fol­low­ing too closely, improper pass­ing, dis­tracted dri­ving and lane use. A new ini­tia­tive began this week, and OSP hopes to reduce the num­ber of crashes of com­mer­cial vehi­cles through this pro­gram. It’s a multi-state …