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39-year-old Jimmy Mat­ney of Defi­ance died from a heroin over­dose on Dec. 27, 2013. Now, the man who sold him the drugs has been con­victed for Matney’s death. 32-year-old Robert R. Kramer was found guilty of invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter fol­low­ing a three-day trial in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court. Sen­tenc­ing is …

A com­puter virus that affected thou­sands of web­sites also hit the Arch­bold Area School Dis­trict web­site last week, accord­ing to the Bryan Times. The virus dis­played a mes­sage claim­ing to be from the the ter­ror­ist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, bet­ter known as ISIS. So far, no dam­age …

Hills­dale Inter­me­di­ate School Dis­trict has a new board mem­ber fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of the board’s pres­i­dent last month. Valerie White, a Hills­dale res­i­dent and assis­tant pros­e­cut­ing attor­ney for Branch County, was selected from four can­di­dates who fielded ques­tions from the school board. White high­lighted her back­ground in law as a …

Hills­dale city lead­ers are look­ing at chang­ing the code that deals with open burn­ing restric­tions. A pro­posed amend­ment would ban all open­ing burn­ing in the city between mid­night and 4am except for cook­ing grills, mean­ing no camp­fires, open fire pits, or bon­fires. Out­door fires of any kind, includ­ing grills and …

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 …