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Two peo­ple from Ten­nessee were arrested late Sat­ur­day night on drug charges after items of drug candy turned up dur­ing a traf­fic stop on I-69 near Auburn. The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Depart­ment pulled over a vehi­cle at about 10:45pm for going 85 miles an hour. Inside were Tim­o­thy Cole and …

The Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers met this week, and decided to put a pro­posed equip­ment stor­age build­ing on hold for the time being, in order to give them a chance to dis­cuss other pos­si­ble stor­age options. Com­mis­sion­ers, accord­ing to the Bryan Times, said the owner of a stor­age build­ing they are …

A major shakeup in teh Arch­bold Police Force. Chief Joe Wyse is reported to be in sta­ble but crit­i­cal con­di­tion after suf­fer­ing a stroke on Tues­day. Wyse was first taken to the Ful­ton County Health Cen­ter, then trans­ferred by air ambu­lance to the Mercy St. Vin­cent Med­ical Cen­ter in Toledo, …

An Angola man is behind bars on $1 mil­lion bond after he allegedly exchanged gun­fire with an off duty Kendal­lville Police offi­cer and killed a fam­ily dog dur­ing a home inva­sion in DeKalb County Tues­day night. 21-year-old Tyler Gaiski was charged Thurs­day after­noon with attempted mur­der, bur­glary and tor­tur­ing or …

The Ohio Depart­ment of Pub­lic Safety’s Ohio Traf­fic Safety Office has awarded $28,222.42 in fed­eral traf­fic safety fund­ing to the Pauld­ing County Sher­iff for fed­eral fis­cal year 2016. The funds are passed through the Ohio Traf­fic Safety Office from the National High­way Traf­fic Safety Admin­is­tra­tion to sup­port the efforts of …

A third jury trial over asbestos expo­sure at the Gen­eral Motors plant in Defi­ance opened this week in Defi­ance County Court. Nancy Wilk­er­son, whose hus­band, Char­lie, died from lung can­cer in 2007, is ask­ing the jury to allow her to par­tic­i­pate in the state’s work­ers com­pen­sa­tion pro­gram. Wilk­er­son claims that …

The Defi­ance city administration’s plan to seek grant funds for a round­about traf­fic con­trol device at a south­side inter­sec­tion ended abruptly on Tues­day night, when city coun­cil rejected an ordi­nance autho­riz­ing the state grant appli­ca­tion. The ordi­nance would have allowed the city to seek grant funds through the Ohio Depart­ment …

An Angola man is behind bars today at the DeKalb County Jail, with­out bond, after he allegedly exchanged gun­fire with an off duty Kendal­lville Police Offi­cer Tues­day night. 21-year-old Tyler Gaiski is now fac­ing felony charges of attempted mur­der, bur­glary and tor­tur­ing an ani­mal. It all began when DeKalb County …

A non-compliant reg­is­tered sex offender is being hunted down by the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office. On Wednes­day, an arrest war­rant was issued for 62 year old Bruce W. Sev­er­ance, who is charged with a felony for fail­ure to reg­is­ter as a sex or vio­lent offender. The war­rant was issued after …

A truck dri­ver was killed early Tues­day morn­ing in an acci­dent involv­ing three semis which forced the total shut down of a three mile por­tion of I-69 south of Auburn for nearly eight hours. That driver’s name has not been released, but we do know that he was pro­nounced dead …