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A Defi­ance man was arrested Mon­day morn­ing in con­nec­tion with a break-in at Dol­lar Gen­eral on South Clin­ton Street in Defi­ance. 20 year old Dustin Her­nan­dez is now charged with break­ing and enter­ing and is being held behind bars in the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio. Another man, pos­si­bly dri­ving …

An uptick in fatal crashes here in Ohio, has the high­way patrol urg­ing dri­vers to use cau­tion. Statewide, there has been an increase of 38 fatal­i­ties this year over the same period last year. There are 600 con­firmed fatal­i­ties this year com­pared to the 562 fatal­i­ties that were con­firmed a …

In Bryan, the new 6–12 school build­ing project is mov­ing for­ward nicely. The walls are going up, and the foun­da­tions are almost com­plete. The Bryan Times reports that the project is on sched­ule. Seed­ing of top soil should begin soon, then heavy mate­ri­als will begin to arrive as the 150,000 …

A guilty plea Mon­day in Steuben County Court by a man in response to a charge of rape. 54-year-old Frank Stetler can now expect to spend fif­teen years behind bars, if the plea agree­ment reached yes­ter­day is accepted dur­ing a sen­tenc­ing hear­ing on Octo­ber 5th. One of the orig­i­nal charges …

In Pauld­ing County, an inves­ti­ga­tion is under­way into the death of a Payne man. Pauld­ing County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to a home on Town­line Street in Payne on Sat­ur­day morn­ing, for an unre­spon­sive man. When they arrived, they found 50 year old Cary Par­sons dead in the kitchen. Pauld­ing …

A com­mit­tee is look­ing into thefts from the Auburn Police Depart­ment evi­dence room, and has now rec­om­mended dis­ci­pline for two Auburn offi­cers. The Auburn Police Depart­ment Dis­ci­pli­nary Com­mit­tee met for over 12 hours, and poured over all the evi­dence and infor­ma­tion. Now, that com­mit­tee has rec­om­mended dis­ci­pline against two offi­cers …

A cou­ple of arrests kept Bryan Police busy over the week­end. On Sat­ur­day after­noon, 40 year old James J. Free­man III of South Wal­nut Street in Bryan was arrested and charged with five counts of Aggra­vated Men­ac­ing, Car­ry­ing Con­cealed Weapons, Unlaw­ful Restraint, and Using Weapons While Intox­i­cated . He was …

A Change of Plea hear­ing is set for this after­noon in Steuben Cir­cuit Court in the case of a rural Angola man accused of an alleged sex­ual assault early on New Years Eve. 54 year old Frank Stetler is charged with felony rape, crim­i­nal con­fine­ment, intim­i­da­tion and stran­gu­la­tion. The rape …

A rob­bery in Bryan.… A man held up the offices of P & R Med­ical at 1100 East High Street on Fri­day after­noon. Bryan Police say no weapons were dis­played dur­ing the rob­bery that took place just after 2:00pm on Fri­day. The sus­pect is described as a white male in …

Eight west­ern Ohio coun­ties have been des­ig­nated as nat­ural dis­as­ter areas after months of heavy rain and flood­ing. The des­ig­na­tion, by the U.S. Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture for But­ler, Darke, Defi­ance, Hamil­ton, Mer­cer, Pauld­ing, Pre­ble and Van Wert coun­ties, means farm­ers in those coun­ties can now seek fed­eral assis­tance includ­ing emer­gency …