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Ohio’s pop­u­la­tion of those 65 and older is grow­ing. Newly released data from the U.S. Cen­sus Bureau shows that the north­west cor­ner of the state is no excep­tion to that find­ing. The lat­est fig­ures show that Defi­ance County’s 65+ pop­u­la­tion grew by 1.8 per­cent between 2010 and 2014 — from …

Arch­bold Area Schools’ super­in­ten­dent will stick around and head up the dis­trict for five more years. A Mon­day night vote by the Arch­bold Area Board of Edu­ca­tion approved a new five-year con­tract for super­in­ten­dent Aaron Rex effec­tive Aug. 1, 2016.

A Fre­mont man was in Steuben Supe­rior Court on Mon­day, where he pleaded guilty to felony charges of deal­ing in Metham­phet­a­mine. 23-year-old Jere­miah Bates was arrested in April. Bates and 28-year-old co-defendant Christo­pher Hen­kle allegedly sold meth to a con­fi­den­tial infor­mant for $1,050 last Decem­ber. The plea deal reached yes­ter­day, …

An Arch­bold man was in Ful­ton County Court on Mon­day, where he was sen­tenced for his part in a theft. 32 year old Tyler Gray will spend 2 years under com­mu­nity con­trol after plead­ing guilty. Gray was found guilty of steal­ing and then and reselling grain from April of 2013 …

An 18 year old from Bryan is get­ting some­thing very spe­cial from a very spe­cial orga­ni­za­tion. Devin Rum­mell is bat­tling bone can­cer. It was in 2012, after two years of knee pain, that Devin first received his diag­no­sis. The Rum­mels had been tak­ing ATV off-roading trips together with dozens of …

Two peo­ple escaped with only minor injuries when their car rolled over on Sun­day after­noon on Ohio 66, north of Defi­ance. 19 year old Amelia Del­gado of Hol­gate lost con­trol of the vehi­cle Sun­day after­noon just before 1 o’clock, ran into a ditch and then rolled over. Del­gado was treated …

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 …