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Indi­ana State Trooper Peter Bradley of Noble County was awarded the department’s Sil­ver Star for res­cu­ing a dis­tressed pad­dle boater last August. Two adults and two chil­dren were in the boat on Knapp Lake a few miles north­west of Fort Wayne when it started to founder. One of the adults …

An Angola man is return­ing to prison after vio­lat­ing his pro­ba­tion from a 2010 drug case. 28-year-old Jeromy R. Baker will spend seven years behind bars for a com­bi­na­tion of charges on drug man­u­fac­tur­ing and resist­ing arrest along with the parole vio­la­tion. Three chil­dren found in Baker’s house dur­ing a …

Bryan police and Williams County deputies joined in on a vehi­cle chase Fri­day at the request of the Defi­ance County Sheriff’s Office. Defi­ance deputies were pur­su­ing a car on High­way 127 when it entered Williams County, prompt­ing the request. After trav­el­ing through Bryan, the vehi­cle veered off into a field, …

Friends and fam­ily held a can­dle­light vigil Sat­ur­day evening for 22-year-old Jonathan Krueger of Per­rys­burg. Krueger was a stu­dent at the Uni­ver­sity of Ken­tucky who was gunned down early Fri­day morn­ing in what police are call­ing a ran­dom act of vio­lence near the Lex­ing­ton cam­pus. He was taken to an …

Bryan police and Williams County deputies joined in on a vehi­cle chase Fri­day at the request of the Defi­ance County Sheriff’s Office. Defi­ance deputies were pur­su­ing a car on High­way 127 when it entered Williams County, prompt­ing the request. After trav­el­ing through Bryan, the vehi­cle veered off into a field, …

Hol­i­day City needs a mar­shal, as far as Williams County sher­iff Steven Towns is con­cerned. He said as much in a let­ter to Hol­i­day City mayor Shawn Clark, who deliv­ered the mes­sage in a vil­lage coun­cil meet­ing last week. Offi­cials thought a mar­shal had been appointed upon the village’s found­ing …

Henry County will receive more than $5500 to help sup­ple­ment local emer­gency food and shel­ter pro­grams. The deci­sion was made by a national board chaired by the Fed­eral Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency with input from the Amer­i­can Red Cross, The Sal­va­tion Army, and The United Way. The amount of the money …

A Detroit man has been charged for break­ing into and rob­bing a Hills­dale County gen­eral store five months ago. Michi­gan State Police say that 27-year-old Kevin Ettlich robbed the North Adams Gen­eral Store in North Adams Town­ship east of Jonesville on Novem­ber 9 fol­low­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion that pro­duced a war­rant …

A car crash in Ful­ton County on Fri­day evening sent a woman to the hos­pi­tal in crit­i­cal con­di­tion. 44-year-old Josephine Rieger of Toledo air­lifted to Mercy St. Vin­cent Med­ical Cen­ter after another car failed to stop at an inter­sec­tion and struck her SUV in the driver’s side door. The SUV …

A Pauld­ing County man was sen­tenced to 30 months in prison for his role in run­ning a meth lab in Ful­ton County. 24-year-old Philip Snider pled guilty to charges of meth pro­duc­tion for inci­dents that occurred last win­ter. Snider’s dri­vers license will also be sus­pended for three years.