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A con­fronta­tion with a freight train left two men lucky to escape with only minor injuries Sun­day morn­ing. The acci­dent hap­pened yes­ter­day just before 6AM in DeKalb County at County Road 47, when 21 year old David Albert of But­ler tried to cross the tracks as the cross­ing arms were …

Bryan Police made an arrest for drink­ing and dri­ving over the week­end. Early Sat­ur­day morn­ing, just after 1AM, police pulled over 59 year old Jerry R. Caswell of South Lynn Street in Bryan. Caswell was arrested, and charged with OVI. After pro­cess­ing, he was released. No other details have been …

Williams County Sheriff’s Deputies made 2 arrests over the week­end. 28 year old Travis Rath of ALL-verton was charged with Dis­or­derly per­sist­ing while intox­i­cated and a pro­ba­tion vio­la­tion. Rath was taken to CCNO. In a seper­ate inci­dent, 25 year old Kara Jack­son of Edon was charged with one count of …

A Water­loo man was arrested over the week­end after police say he stabbed another man dur­ing a fight. 34 year old Tim­o­thy Hop­kins was taken into cus­tody on Sat­ur­day morn­ing fol­low­ing the alter­ca­tion at a home near But­ler at about 9:45am. Police say Hop­kins used a knife to cut the …

As promised, the com­pany behind the $2 bil­lion Nexus Pipeline has sued 91 Sum­mit County res­i­dents as it tries to gain access to pri­vate prop­erty for sur­vey­ing needs. The pro­posed three-foot-wide, 250-mile-long pipeline would carry nat­ural gas from Columbiana County to Defi­ance before turn­ing north and run­ning into Canada. Judges …

Ohio’s sales tax hol­i­day week­end is upon us. From today until mid­night Sun­day night, back-to-school shop­pers can expect to save on items such as cloth­ing priced under $75 and school sup­plies. Unlike some other states, com­put­ers are not included in the sales tax break. Sports equip­ment and work uni­forms are …

Police dis­cov­ered more than 25 trash bags full of items used to make metham­phet­a­mine tossed into Pigeon Creek this past week­end. Steuben County sheriff’s staff and Indi­ana con­ser­va­tion offi­cers pulled the bags from a stretch of creek between Golden Lake and Hog­back Lake on Sun­day. After fur­ther study, the mate­ri­als …

An Arch­bold man was set free yes­ter­day after a West Vir­ginia judge dis­missed mur­der charges for lack of evi­dence. 52-year-old Charles Free­man, along with 40-year-old Joseph Metz of West Vir­ginia, were acquit­ted of the 1999 dis­ap­pear­ance and deaths of Metz’ mother and grand­mother. With no crime scene, mur­der weapon, or …

A Pauld­ing County man was found dead Wednes­day evening fol­low­ing an acci­dent involv­ing a farm trac­tor. Deputies responded to a call shortly before 8:30pm and found 75-year-old Richard Ross lying in a field west of Jack­son Town­ship. It appeared that Ross had fallen from the cab of his trac­tor, pos­si­bly …

LeGrange County inves­ti­ga­tors are ask­ing for the public’s help in locat­ing a miss­ing teenager. The sheriff’s depart­ment says that 17-year-old Faith Ann Ritche was last seen Tues­day after­noon at her home. Ritche is described as being a white female, 5’5″, 160 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes. She was …