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A Fre­mont man sur­ren­dered peace­fully Sun­day after the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office and Fre­mont Police responded to a call regard­ing bat­tery with bod­ily injury. Jacob Spradlin was found him at a Fre­mont home. Police formed a perime­ter around the res­i­dence and finally got Spradlin to come out, where he sur­ren­dered. …

An Angola teen escaped with only minor injuries Sat­ur­day morn­ing when his pickup truck rolled over in Branch County. 17-year-old Alex Beek­man was dri­ving on Flint Road just before 11 Sat­ur­day morn­ing, when his pickup went out of con­trol, ran off the road and rolled over into a ditch. Deputies …

A New Haven woman and her child were injured Sat­ur­day after­noon in an acci­dent on I-69 about a mile south of Auburn. That crash hap­pened at about 2:35pm Sat­ur­day, when 36-year-old Tara Shramek says she looked down to change the radio sta­tion, and when she looked up again, she saw …

A crash Sat­ur­day after­noon leaves one man dead and a woman in crit­i­cal con­di­tion. The Ohio High­way Patrol says 32 year old Amy Bibler of Find­lay, was west­bound on U.S. 6 at about 5:40 p.m on Sat­ur­day, with a pas­sen­ger, 35 year old Richard Eagle­son III of Desh­ler, when her …

Bryan Police on Sun­day made an arrest on a bench war­rant. Police picked up 36 year old Stephanie R. Spauld­ing of Stryker, who then posted bond and was released.

The Auburn Board of Pub­lic Works and Safety voted on Thurs­day to sus­pend two Auburn Police Offi­cers after more than $2,000 in cash was stolen from the police department’s evi­dence room. Offi­cer Steve Ryan was sus­pended for 35 days, and offi­cer Steve Val­lance got a 30 day sus­pen­sion. Now, the …

The Williams County Sheriff’s depart­ment reminds dri­vers that the nation­wide “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” cam­paign is in full effect, and it is being enforced locally too. The height­ened enforce­ment period began on August 21st and it runs through Mon­day, August 31st. Grant money from the Depart­ment of Pub­lic …

Fron­tier Com­mu­ni­ca­tions hosted a cel­e­bra­tion on Thurs­day night to honor Fre­mont and Angola for becom­ing quarter-finalists in the America’s Best Com­mu­ni­ties com­pe­ti­tion, a $10 mil­lion com­pe­ti­tion designed to revi­tal­ize small towns and rural com­mu­ni­toes. Angola and Fre­mont won $50,000 for get­ting through the first round, and will learn in Jan­u­ary …

A vehi­cle fire at Green Acres Trailer Court on Ohio 66, destroyed a Jeep and dam­aged a mobile home. It hap­pened Wednes­day morn­ing around 11, and the flames were quickly put out by Defi­ance fire­fight­ers. A woman and child liv­ing in the mobile home were checked out by Defi­ance EMS, …

Bryan Police on Thurs­day evening, arrested 24 year old Kristin Way of Hills­dale, Michi­gan on a charge of Com­plic­ity to Com­mit Theft… or Shoplift­ing. She was taken toCCNO. Police did not release the loca­tion of that arrest or any other details. Also last evening, 25 year old Adam Reese, also …