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Auburn Police have issued a Sil­ver Alert for a 79-year-old woman who has been miss­ing since Tues­day morn­ing and is believed to be in dan­ger. Car­o­line Carteaux is five-foot-three and weighs 125 pounds. She has brown eyes and gray hair. Carteaux may be in a White 2002 Toy­ota Prius with …

In Kun­kle and Madi­son Town­ships, com­plaints about truck traf­fic from the Menards Dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­ter is an ongo­ing issue. Res­i­dents there say the hun­dreds of trucks and employee vehi­cles that daily enter and leave the dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­ter in Hol­i­day City each day are a prob­lem. The Bryan Times reports today that …

A Bryan man has been arrested in con­nec­tion with a fire at the home where he lived. 55 year old Ray Ridg­way of Haver Drive, has been charged with felony aggra­vated arson. The charge comes after fire­fight­ers rushed to the home on Fri­day evening, and found the house full of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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