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Defi­ance Pub­lish­ing Com­pany, the par­ent com­pany of The Crescent-News and other area pub­li­ca­tions has been pur­chased by Adams Pub­lish­ing Group in Min­nesota. Steve Van­De­mark will con­tinue as pub­lisher. The Adams Pub­lish­ing Group is a family-owned media com­pany, which pro­duces com­mu­nity news­pa­pers, events, dig­i­tal prod­ucts and spe­cialty mag­a­zines. They own radio …

In the lat­est OVI enforce­ment over last week­end, The Ohio State High­way Patrol arrested 399 dri­vers, an 81 per­cent increase from the same week­end two years ago, and 40 per­cent more than last year at this time. The high-visibility enforce­ment began Fri­day, Decem­ber 4 and ended Sun­day, Decem­ber 6. Troop­ers from …

Two men were taken to CCNO on out­stand­ing warrants. 36-year-old William Bar­nett of Wauseon was arrested on a war­rant from Ful­ton County. At an unre­lated inci­dent, 35-year-old Andrew Kendall of Bryan was arrested for resist­ing arrest. He had two felony war­rants issued in Williams County.

A Pauld­ing man charged with rob­beries in two local coun­ties was arraigned Mon­day in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court. 26-year-old John Gos­nell pleaded not guilty to aggra­vated rob­bery, a first-degree felony with a firearm spec­i­fi­ca­tion. A pre­trial hear­ing was sched­uled for Jan. 7. Gos­nell allegedly robbed Defiance’s Speed­way store, 1802 …

An escaped fugi­tive was taken into cus­tody at the Love’s Travel Plaza at I-69 and U.S. 20 in Steuben County at about 5:30pm Mon­day evening. Steuben County Sher­iff Tim Troyer says Charles Adams was rec­og­nized by some­one at the truck­stop. Troyer says the 28-year-old tried to flee but was quickly …

The North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Board of Trustees has voted to reject the rec­om­men­da­tions of the State Employ­ment Rela­tions Board regard­ing a pos­si­ble new three-year staff con­tract. The board chair, Sue Derck, said they were dis­ap­pointed in the fact-finders report, say­ing that they didn’t take into con­sid­er­a­tion changed to health …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol is shift­ing focus now to enforc­ing com­mer­cial vehi­cle laws, includ­ing speed, fol­low­ing too closely, improper pass­ing, dis­tracted dri­ving and lane use. A new ini­tia­tive began this week, and OSP hopes to reduce the num­ber of crashes of com­mer­cial vehi­cles through this pro­gram. It’s a multi-state …

Choos­ing a school dis­trict is an impor­tant deci­sion. Two local dis­tricts are being rec­og­nized by NerdWallet.com for pro­vid­ing the best value in Ohio schools. Stryker Local is ranked third in the state, and Millcreek-West Unity is 9th. Nerd­Wal­let looked at 608 Ohio school dis­tricts. They con­sid­ered fac­tors includ­ing test scores, …

Ohio Attor­ney Gen­eral Mike Dewine announced new require­ments for all appli­cants to Ohio peace offi­cer basic train­ing acad­e­mies. North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege in Arch­bold is one of many in Ohio. Dewine said the new rules pro­vide uni­for­mity, includ­ing all must pass a drug screen before admis­sion, a psy­cho­log­i­cal exam, a …

ODOT says a new out­post facil­ity in Hicksville is now being designed and is expected to go to the bid phase next month. ODOT wants the pro­jected $3 mil­lion dol­lar project to cre­ate a larger build­ing for crews for more room, and move the loca­tion, get­ting it away from res­i­dences. …