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The Ful­ton County Crime Stop­pers pro­gram has released some infor­ma­tion that they hope will help catch some peo­ple they say are respon­si­ble for a theft in the area. In Jan­u­ary, a log split­ter was stolen in Meta­mora. The log split­ter is described as red in color, with a 6.5 horse …

A log­ging acci­dent left one Put­nam County log­ger injured. It hap­pened on Mon­day after­noon when a tree fell on the leg of 53 year old William Rayle Jr of Cloverdale. Rayle was taken to St. Rita’s Med­ical Cen­ter in Lima with unspec­i­fied injuries. It hap­pened Mon­day after­noon just before 2. …

The Defi­ance Area Cham­ber of Com­merce has put out the word… they need a new pres­i­dent. The posi­tion will become effec­tive soon, as cur­rent pres­i­dent Isaac Lee plans to step down, effec­tive March 13th in order to accept the posi­tion of vice pres­i­dent of mem­ber­ship for the Toledo Regional Cham­ber …

The Henry County Engineer’s Office has announced plans are under­way to replace four bridges and resur­face about 11 miles of roads at a cost of about $2.3 Mil­lion. On top of that, the county this year will chip and seal about 36 miles of road­way. On the list this year, …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol, along with local law enforce­ment, inves­ti­gated a series of weather-related crashes begin­ning Sat­ur­day morn­ing, all due to the storm that moved through our area. The weather changed quickly Sat­ur­day morn­ing. Snow started to fall, and the wind picked up, caus­ing severe low vis­i­bil­ity and blow­ing …

A semi truck was slammed by a train. It hap­pened Sat­ur­day after­noon in the vil­lage of Leip­sic. The Put­nam County Sheriff’s Office says just before 1 Sat­ur­day after­noon, the truck was trav­el­ing on County Road 5, north of Ohio 613 when it slid on the road­way and ran into the …

Flames broke out over the week­end in an Angola garage that was attached to a home on West Loon Lake Road. It hap­pened Sat­ur­day after­noon. For­tu­nately, the door between the breeze­way of the home and the garage was closed, which fire­fight­ers say pre­vented the flames from spread­ing into the house, …

Bryan Police, early Sun­day morn­ing, arrested 35 year old Erik Flinn of South Williams Street on a bench war­rant out of Williams County Court for fail­ing to appear. He was locked up in CCNO. Last evening, Bryan Police nabbed Troy York of Toledo, on a bench war­rant out of Bryan …

The win­ter weather has left one per­son dead fol­low­ing a crash in our area. Blow­ing and drift­ing snow Sat­ur­day morn­ing resulted in a chain-reaction crash on Ohio 576, between County Road H and County Road I. Then, about an hour later, just before 11:30 Sat­ur­day morn­ing, a crash on the …

An eight-member jury in Defi­ance County on Fri­day, fol­low­ing a three day trial, decided that the sur­viv­ing spouse of a for­mer employee at Defiance’s Gen­eral Motors plant is enti­tled to ben­e­fits through the state’s work­ers com­pen­sa­tion pro­gram. In the suit, which was filed back in 2009 by Loretta Bryant of …