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The Henry County Sheriff’s Office, along with the Bureau of Crim­i­nal Inves­ti­ga­tion, con­ducted an air sweep for mar­i­juana last Fri­day. A heli­copter was pro­vided by the But­ler County Sheriff’s Office, at no charge to Henry County. The mar­i­juana erad­i­ca­tion cam­paign spot­ted 21 mar­i­juana plants grow­ing in Henry County. Mar­i­juana was …

Bryan Police are inves­ti­gat­ing two hit-skip acci­dents that hap­pened recently. The first occured last Wednes­day, and involved a 14-year-old girl who was rid­ing to school on her bicy­cle. Police report the girl was ped­al­ing west through the north-side cross walk at South Wal­nut Street and East Maple Street, near the …

The Cres­cent News reports that Defi­ance Police responded to an inci­dent involv­ing gun­fire Thurs­day evening. Police say it was around 8:20 Thurs­day evening that offi­cers were called to the vicin­ity of South Clin­ton and Sun­day streets for a report of a gun being fired. Wit­nesses reported see­ing a man run­ning …

Bryan Police were kept busy over the week­end. On Sat­ur­day, they arrested 27 year old Trevor D. Hutchi­son of Bryan, charg­ing him with Crim­i­nal Dam­ag­ing and Bur­glary. He was taken to CCNO. Also on Sat­ur­day, police col­lared 57 year old Lynn M. Rupp of Wal­nut Street in Bryan, charg­ing him …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol will be join­ing forces with other mem­bers of the 6-State Trooper Project to focus on mar­i­juana and Crim­i­nal Patrol enforce­ment. The ini­tia­tive will take place begin­ning today, through Sun­day. This high-visibility enforce­ment effort will include the Indi­ana State Police, Ken­tucky State Police, Michi­gan State Police, …

The Steuben County Sheriff’s Office is hunt­ing for a non-compliant sex offender. An arrest war­rant out of Steuben Supe­rior Court has been issued for 26-year-old Corey Wits­man, who police say failed to reg­is­ter as a sex offender. Steuben County court doc­u­ments show that Wits­man was charged in Decem­ber 2012 in …

Accord­ing to infor­ma­tion obtained from Four County Career Cen­ter, the Cos­me­tol­ogy Salon will open to the pub­lic on Octo­ber 2. Clinic hours this year are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Thurs­day and Fri­day. Walk-ins and appoint­ments are accepted, how­ever no appoint­ments or cus­tomers will be accepted after 1 p.m. …

Police say a reported sui­cide attempt led to an arrest with felony charges on Tues­day. It all began accord­ing to police, when 38 yea rold Duane Perez of Pleas­ant Street in Mont­pe­lier, threat­ened to swal­low a whole bot­tle of uniden­ti­fied med­ica­tions. Offi­cers showed up, and that’s when Perez began kick­ing …

A man from Cecil is dead fol­low­ing an explo­sion and barn fire on Pauld­ing County Road 8. It hap­pened on Sun­day morn­ing just before 11. Offi­cials say 25 year old Mike Froelich was weld­ing in the bed of a pickup truck near the fuel tank when the tank exploded. Froelich’s …

The Finan­cial fore­cast looks a bit brighter at Quadco. Accord­ing to a press release we received from Quadco on Tues­day, while not­ing there was still a ways to go, Quadco exec­u­tives say they have seen some bet­ter finan­cial news in recent days. While the state­ments still show a loss, the …