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Henry County will receive more than $5500 to help sup­ple­ment local emer­gency food and shel­ter pro­grams. The deci­sion was made by a national board chaired by the Fed­eral Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency with input from the Amer­i­can Red Cross, The Sal­va­tion Army, and The United Way. The amount of the money …

A Detroit man has been charged for break­ing into and rob­bing a Hills­dale County gen­eral store five months ago. Michi­gan State Police say that 27-year-old Kevin Ettlich robbed the North Adams Gen­eral Store in North Adams Town­ship east of Jonesville on Novem­ber 9 fol­low­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion that pro­duced a war­rant …

A car crash in Ful­ton County on Fri­day evening sent a woman to the hos­pi­tal in crit­i­cal con­di­tion. 44-year-old Josephine Rieger of Toledo air­lifted to Mercy St. Vin­cent Med­ical Cen­ter after another car failed to stop at an inter­sec­tion and struck her SUV in the driver’s side door. The SUV …

A Pauld­ing County man was sen­tenced to 30 months in prison for his role in run­ning a meth lab in Ful­ton County. 24-year-old Philip Snider pled guilty to charges of meth pro­duc­tion for inci­dents that occurred last win­ter. Snider’s dri­vers license will also be sus­pended for three years.

A long-term con­struc­tion project on Inter­state 69 is set to kick off today, weather per­mit­ting, in DeKalb County. The work will con­struct two new bridges just south of Route 8 between exits 326 and 329, start­ing on the south­bound side with asphalt work in prepa­ra­tion for a traf­fic pat­tern shift. …

New secu­rity screen­ing mea­sures are closer to fruition at the Williams County Cour­t­house. A walk-through metal detec­tor, though not yet in oper­a­tion, has already been installed at the pub­lic entrance on the west side of the build­ing. Ear­lier this week, court offi­cials approved an order to hire a full-time secu­rity …

The National Weather Ser­vice has con­firmed that a tor­nado touched down in north­ern Hills­boro County last week. The tor­nado struck just after 6:20pm on April 9 with straight-line winds esti­mated at 85 miles-per-hour. Dam­age was min­i­mal, though a barn was pushed off its foun­da­tion, and two trees landed on an …

Today is the last day to RSVP for the new middle-and-high school ground­break­ing event sched­uled for this com­ing Thurs­day, April 23, at 10:30am on Foun­tain Grove Drive. The con­struc­tion is the first phase in a mas­ter plan that will unite all stu­dents from pre-K to 12th grade on one cam­pus. …

A train derailed yes­ter­day morn­ing in Napoleon, tem­porar­ily block­ing the inter­sec­tion of Glen­wood and Wash­ing­ton. The train was car­ry­ing tomato paste, so no HAZMAT sit­u­a­tion here, but two cars did over­turn, caus­ing some dam­age to about 100 feet of track, which will have to be repaired once the cars are …

Vol­un­teers at the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio received spe­cial recog­ni­tion, includ­ing hon­or­ing the Vol­un­teer of the Year, dur­ing the 24th annual Vol­un­teer Recog­ni­tion Ban­quet held Tues­day. Vol­un­teer Jim Scruta of Napoleon, who has been a vol­un­teer there since 2001, was named the CCNO Vol­un­teer of the Year for 2014. …