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Local county courts are now bound by last week’s Supreme Court rul­ing on same sex mar­riage, how­ever they may not be able to accom­mo­date same-sex mar­riage license requests right away. For now, the Ohio Pro­bate Judges’ Asso­ci­a­tion has a com­mit­tee that hastily began to review the Supreme Court’s deci­sion before …

Last week’s flood waters have caused a part of the Napoleon Munic­i­pal Golf Course to be closed down. Napoleon Parks and Rec Direc­tor Tony Cot­ter told the Cres­cent News that when the river level rises seven feet or more, it causes flood­ing in the creek run­ning along the west and …

The LaGrange County Sheriff’s Depart­ment is on the hunt for a man who they say failed to reg­is­ter as a sex or vio­lent offender. Accord­ing to their Face­book page, the LaGrange County Sheriff’s Depart­ment is search­ing for 27-year-old Clay­ton Rugg, who is wanted on a war­rant out of LaGrange Cir­cuit …

Williams County is soon get­ting a new pros­e­cu­tor. Kirk Yosick has resigned, effec­tive next Thurs­day, July 2nd. Yosick cites the rea­son for leav­ing as the fact that he will be work­ing as a gen­eral coun­sel for a com­pany in Toledo. His term was set to expire at the end of …

On Sat­ur­day, all res­i­dents of Williams County will receive free admis­sion to the his­toric Sauder Vil­lage as part of Williams County Com­mu­nity Appre­ci­a­tion Day. Free admis­sion is being offered to all Williams County res­i­dents as a way to say thank you for their sup­port. On Williams County Day guests also …

A man has been arrested in con­nec­tion to a bomb threat at Kalida Man­u­fac­tur­ing on Wednes­day. The arrest came fol­low­ing a call that was made to the Put­nam County Sheriff’s Office, yes­ter­day morn­ing, in which the caller said there was a hostage sit­u­a­tion and a bomb at KMI. Upon fur­ther …

Billing high­lighted Wednesday’s reg­u­lar meet­ing of CCNO. Lucas County Com­mis­sioner Pete Gerken asked if the bills had been adjusted to reflect the approved bylaw changes made at the May meet­ing. CCNO Fis­cal Man­ager Tonya Jus­tus noted that the bill was cor­rect and also said the juris­dic­tions are billed quar­terly for …

Assault, dis­or­derly con­duct after warn­ing, agga­vated tres­pass­ing… just some of the charges now fac­ing a Bryan woman fol­low­ing her arrest early Wedne­day morn­ing by Bryan Police. 23 year old Casey Sharp was nabbed by police yes­ter­day morn­ing at 1:51am. Police have not revealed just where she was arrested, nor have …

If you like smoked ribs, lis­ten up! Ten local non-profit groups will be smok­ing up racks of ribs for the 10th annual Henry County Rib Fest tomor­row in down­town Napoleon. It all gets under­way at 5:30 tomor­row after­noon at North Perry, West Wash­ing­ton and East Wash­ing­ton streets. Enter­tain­ment will be …

We have lim­ited infor­ma­tion this morn­ing con­cern­ing a fire at a build­ing last night in Delta. So far, we know that four fire sta­tions responded after flames broke out Tues­day night at a com­mu­ni­ca­tions build­ing on County Road H east of 109. Crews had to truck in water from area …