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71 Year Old Margaret Camp Charged With Attempted Murder

Four peo­ple were indicted by a Defi­ance County grand jury last week on sep­a­rate first-degree felonies, includ­ing one woman who was hit with an attempted mur­der charge involv­ing her son. 71 year old Mar­garet Camp is now offi­cially charged with attempted mur­der, that’s a first-degree felony, plus felo­nious assault, a …

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Sauder Car Show This Weekend

Antique car col­lec­tors from through­out the Mid­west will be meet­ing in Arch­bold on Sat­ur­day for the annual Antique Car Gath­er­ing at Sauder Vil­lage. More than 100 antique auto­mo­biles are already reg­is­tered for this pop­u­lar spring event — offer­ing a unique view of the auto­mo­biles of days gone by. Add to …

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Bryan Police Nabb Flores On OVI Charge

An arrest in Bryan over the week­end. Bryan Police pulled over 37 year old Melissa Flo­res at 2:15 Sun­day morn­ing, and arrested her for OVI. After pro­cess­ing, Flo­res was released, but she most cer­tainly will be in court soon on the charge.

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Two Hicksville Men Facing Multiple Sex Charges

44 year old Tony Camp­bell of Hicksville has been charged wtih two counts of rape, and 39 year old Judd Price, also of Hicksville, is also charged with two counts of rape and two counts of gross sex­ual impo­si­tion. The indict­ment against Camp­bell alleges that he had sex­ual con­duct sev­eral …

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Cedar Point Is Opening

Cedar Point opens for the sea­son this Sat­ur­day with a new roller coaster, the park’s first floor­less roller coaster, uti­liz­ing the track of the for­mer Man­tis roller coaster, tow­er­ing 14 sto­ries above the mid­way. The new coaster will flip rid­ers upside down at up to 60 miles per hour, while …

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Smoke Alarm Saves Couple In Defiance

A smoke alarm that went off Sun­day night is being cred­ited with quite pos­si­bly sav­ing the lives of Sandy and Jim Hol­ley of Defi­ance. The Holley’s say neigh­bors were pound­ing on their front door to let them know that the house was on fire just after 11 Sun­day night. The …

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GM Plans Open House In Defiance

Gen­eral Motors Defi­ance Cast­ing Oper­a­tions is hold­ing an open house, and if you go, you will get a chance to view new GM vehi­cles in addi­tion to the fac­tory where they are built. A vehi­cle show­case and open house will be held from 3–6 p.m. May 14 at the plant …

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YMCA Kicks Off Fundraising Campaign

The Williams County Fam­ily YMCA has launched it’s annual sup­port cam­paign, with a goal this year of rais­ing $70,000. The money will be used to sup­port pro­grams for preschool­ers, school-age chil­dren and seniors, and help fund the Peo­ple Help­ing Peo­ple Schol­ar­ship pro­gram, which pro­vides mem­ber­ship assis­tance to low-income fam­i­lies. Y offi­cials say …

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Reward Offered In Arson Cases

The State Fire Mar­shal is now inves­ti­gat­ing two fires that were inten­tion­ally set. Inves­ti­ga­tors have ruled an aban­doned house fire and a barn fire recently, both on Ful­ton County Road 12 in Wauseon, were cases of arson. The fire at the house was reported around 3am on Mon­day. The barn …

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Election Results Listed

In the local elec­tions held yes­ter­day, two pro­pos­als for tax­a­tion in Defi­ance County — one for fire and res­cue ser­vices, the other for a new school — both won sup­port. And a renewal levy for Patrick Henry Local Schools also squeaked by. Mean­while though, vot­ers in Williams County’s Spring­field Town­ship …

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