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There were two win­ners at the Miss North­west­ern Ohio Schol­ar­ship Pageant. The win­ner of the schol­ar­ship pageant is Hay­ley Hes­selschwardt of Hicksville. She’s joined in the winner’s cir­cle by Marcy Miller of Defi­ance, who was named Miss Out­stand­ing Teen. Hes­selschwardt won a $1,000 schol­ar­ship and the right to com­pete in the …

Here’s the lat­est on the crash Sun­day after­noon involv­ing a Michi­gan man. 41 year-old Anthony Reynolds of Flint is charged with flee­ing and elud­ing police and served with a war­rant for fail­ure to com­ply. A chase involv­ing the man led to a two-vehicle crash in Napoleon. Reynolds hit a truck …

Check­ing gas prices in the area… Accord­ing to AAA, gas prices in the Buck­eye state are down about one dol­lar from a year ago, and down again from last week. Today it’s about $1.84 in Defi­ance. That’s a far cry from the $4.19 we paid four and a half years …

There’s now a CrimeStop­pers reward of $500 for the man who burst into Rings Phar­macy on Novem­ber 3rd and stole drugs right off the shelves. Mont­pe­lier Police Chief Dan McGee says the man is an addict and has addict friends. He says the man moved fast, shov­ing drugs into a …

And look­ing ahead to Christ­mas, and it’s just around the cor­ner, Grace Com­mu­nity Church is orga­niz­ing their Christ­mas food box give­away. They’re help­ing out folks who’ve had it hard this year. They’ll take appli­ca­tions at the church office in Bryan. And if you’re able to donate, call Grace Com­mu­nity Church …

There’ll be a free food give­away for those who need it tomor­row at the Wes­ley United Methodist Church, that’s at 903 Cen­ter Street in Bryan. The free food dis­tri­b­u­tion begins at noon and is sched­uled to end at 4 p.m.

Police are also look­ing into a rob­bery at 4 a.m. Sat­ur­day at the Speed­way on North Clin­ton St. in Defi­ance. The same MO was used in that rob­bery. The rob­ber got away with an undis­closed amount of cash.

An arrest has been made in con­nec­tion with an armed rob­bery last week in Pauld­ing. 26-year-old John Gos­nell is now charged with armed rob­bery of the Mara­mont gas sta­tion on North Williams Street Sat­ur­day. The rob­ber was described as a white male in his 20s who had a hand­gun. He …

Williams County Sher­iffs deputies inves­ti­gated a week­end acci­dent. 31-year-old Con­rad Siebe­naler of Pio­neer was west­bound on US 20 just east of County Road 18 when he trav­eled off the right side of the road. His Chrysler hit a ditch and a mail­box. Siebe­naler was arrested and charged with oper­at­ing a …

A reminder to dri­vers. Last week mul­ti­ple deer strikes were reported just at sun­set, when deer are set­ting out to look for food. With the time change, it’s a good idea to watch out for them while still get­ting used to an ear­lier sunset.