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A con­victed sex offender was sen­tenced to five years in prison on Mon­day in Steuben Cir­cuit Court. 27-year-old Christo­pher Fugate was arrested by U.S. Mar­shals in Jan­u­ary in Hicksville. Fugate was sen­tenced to two years in prison for his fail­ure to reg­is­ter as a sex or vio­lent offender after he …

An Angola man is in cus­tody fol­low­ing an inci­dent Fri­day after­noon at the Wells Fargo Bank in Angola. 52-year-old Kurt Hen­nig walked into the bank just after 3:00pm and accord­ing to wit­nesses, he started to act strangely. They say Hen­nig tried to lock the front door with a chain and …

A Put­nam County woman is in some seri­ous trou­ble after being accused of lying to the FCIC. 55 year old Sharon Piper is charged with mak­ing a mate­ri­ally false state­ment to the Fed­eral Deposit Insur­ance Cor­po­ra­tion. Piper was the head teller for the Union Bank Co. at its Colum­bus Grove …

A man from Stryker, who inves­ti­ga­tors say caused a fire at a Defi­ance home while mak­ing metham­phet­a­mine, is now headed to prison. 18 year old James Black Jr was handed a manda­tory four-year prison term in Defi­ance County Court on charges of ille­gal man­u­fac­ture of drugs and van­dal­ism. Black was …

Bryan Police report the arrest on Fri­day after­noon of 48 year old Beth Diringer of Bryan, on charges related to Theft… in this case, it was Shoplift­ing. She was released. Also on Fri­day, Bryan Police col­lared 31 year old Philip Kurtz of Bryan, just before 11PM on a charge of …

Here we go again… the Lib­erty Cen­ter Local Board of Edu­ca­tion accepted the res­ig­na­tion of a prin­ci­pal, for the sec­ond time in less than two weeks. Dur­ing a spe­cial meet­ing Fri­day morn­ing, the board accepted the res­ig­na­tion of Junior/Senior High School Prin­ci­pal Bryan Skrzyniecki, effec­tive July 31st. That res­ig­na­tion comes …

Accord­ing to the National Oceanic and Atmos­pheric Admin­is­tra­tion, an algae bloom this year at Lake Erie could be much worse than oth­ers recently. Worse than last year’s, which shut down Toledo’s pub­lic water sys­tem for two days. Last year, it was so bad that peo­ple who depend on that water …

A sec­tion in Ohio’s new bud­get gives Defi­ance County com­mis­sion­ers the means to set up some­thing they have wanted for some time… a lodg­ing tax. The tax would be assessed on those who stay in hotels or motels in Defi­ance County. It would likely be about 3 per­cent, and all …

The Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion plans to begin con­struc­tion soon on a new Pauld­ing County main­te­nance garage and a new out­post in Hicksville. The Cres­cent News today reports that the new Pauld­ing County garage will be built on Wayne St. in Pauld­ing, the site of the exist­ing garage. A new …

Auburn Police have arrested six peo­ple fol­low­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion into metham­phet­a­mine fol­low­ing a report on Mon­day that some­one had placed sus­pi­cious trash in a trash recep­ta­cle in the 200 block of West Sec­ond Street. Police got search war­rants for nearby homes, where they found metham­phet­a­mine related items and other ille­gal …