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In DeKalb County, Cir­cuit Court Judge Kirk Car­pen­ter has denied a peti­tion from a con­victed mur­derer who had been seek­ing a mod­i­fi­ca­tion of his 50 year prison sen­tence. Judge Car­pen­ter issued his rul­ing late last week in the case of Thomas Sex­ton, who pleaded guilty in 1996 to mur­der­ing a …

A man from Mon­tana was sen­tenced to six years of a eight year prison sen­tence on Mon­day in Steuben Supe­rior Court. The sen­tence for James Richter came after he entered a guilty plea almost a year ago to felony charges related to the deal­ing of metham­phet­a­mine. Richter will serve his …

On Fri­day, Cooper Farms held an open house at its new Sandy Ridge Gilt Farm in Cecil. The 179-acre farm will house approx­i­mately 1,600 young female pigs begin­ning in Decem­ber, where they will remain for about 16–17 weeks, or until they reach about 200 pounds. They will then be moved …

Bryan Police say that on Fri­day evening, at 9:50 PM, 32 year old Joshua James Wolf, who is described as being home­less, was arrested on a Felony War­rant out of Hills­dale Michi­gan. The orig­i­nal charge was Man­u­fac­tur­ing methamphetamine/Ecstasy and Oper­at­ing a Lab­o­ra­tory involv­ing Metham­phet­a­mine and Pos­ses­sion of Metham­phet­a­mine. Wolf was …

Accord­ing to a news release from The Williams County Pros­e­cu­tors Office, County Pros­e­cu­tor Kather­ine Zart­man has received con­fir­ma­tion that Sher­iff Steve Towns has been cleared of any pos­si­ble charges in con­nec­tion with the Bryan School Board inves­ti­ga­tions. Ohio BCI, in con­junc­tion with the Ohio Attor­ney General’s Spe­cial Pros­e­cu­tions Sec­tion, con­cluded …

A recent audit of the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio will result in no find­ings and no rec­om­men­da­tions. That news came dur­ing Wednesday’s meet­ing of the CCNO finan­cial overview com­mit­tee. CCNO Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Jim Den­nis said an inde­pen­dent CPA firm out of Toledo just com­pletedCCNO’s fis­cal audit as required by …

In an effort to bring aware­ness to breast can­cer, Defi­ance High School art stu­dents of Melanie Wil­son and Mandy Keck have banded together to pro­duce “Hope” tiles which will be sold this evening at the high school foot­ball game at Fred J. Brown Sta­dium. The tiles will be sold by …

The Williams County Ele­men­tary Quiz Bowl for grades 5 & 6 was held last night at Hill­top School. The fol­low­ing schools par­tic­i­pated: Bryan Edger­ton Edon Hill­top Mont­pe­lier North Cen­tral Stryker St. Mary St. Patrick Stryker was run­ner –up and Hill­top took home the win­ning trophy.

Two teens from Angola were arrested by Angola Police and the Steuben County Sheriff’s Depart­ment Wednes­day after­noon, and charged with felony bat­tery. 18-year-old Chance Sheets and 19-year-old Tay­yar Azzan were picked up on East Broad Street in Angols at about 8:00am yes­ter­day, and taken to the Steuben County Jail. The …

An inves­ti­ga­tion is under­way after a worker report­edly died when elec­tro­cuted at a Pauld­ing County busi­ness. The Ohio Occu­pa­tional Safety and Health Admin­is­tra­tion says a worker at Hav­i­land Plas­tic Prod­ucts was elec­tro­cuted in the acci­dent that occured early Mon­day morn­ing. Details have not been made avail­able and the name of …