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One of the world’s largest prop­erty insur­ers has awarded a grant to the Auburn Fire Depart­ment. The $2,500 fire pre­ven­tion grant from FM Global will be used for pub­lic edu­ca­tion of fire pre­ven­tion and responses to help reduce the num­ber of fires in the community.

The Ohio Parole Board voted unan­i­mously to rec­om­mend that the gov­er­nor reject a plea for clemency from 61-year-old for­mer coin dealer Tom Noe. Noe was con­victed in 2006 for theft of any­where from $13 mil­lion to $50 mil­lion in rare-coin invest­ment funds. Should Gov. John Kasich agree with the board, …

A single-vehicle crash yes­ter­day morn­ing is being inves­ti­gated by local deputies. The wreck hap­pened just before 7am yes­ter­day on State Route 576 when 54-year-old Mar­tin Cole of Edon tried to turn onto Williams County Road H. Instead, he ran off the road­way and struck a util­ity pole. The Williams County …

A wad of cash along with a gun and ammu­ni­tion remains miss­ing from the evi­dence room of the Auburn Police Depart­ment. Over $2,000, a shot­gun, the ammo, and some knives were first noticed miss­ing back in Jan­u­ary when some­one went to retrieve the money as evi­dence in a case. Police …

Ohio High­way Patrol and other depart­ments are look­ing into a wreck that took the life of a motor­cy­cle rider. The inci­dent occurred yes­ter­day evening just before 6pm on High­way 127. Police say that 18-year-old Wyatt Puffin­berger of Bryan turned left in front of an oncom­ing motor­cy­cle rid­den by 26-year-old Bryan …

An ATV acci­dent Mon­day night sent a Per­rys­burg man to the hos­pi­tal. Ohio State Patrol responded a call just after 7:30 that evening and found 38-year-old Thomas Pis­archik lying a short dis­tance from his wrecked ATV. He had been trav­el­ing down Defiance-Paulding County Line Road with 62-year-old Larry Atch­ley at …

A house fire in Henry County last week that uncov­ered a woman’s body is still under inves­ti­ga­tion. Fire­fight­ers found the body of 52-year-old Yvonne Nel­son of Ontario, Canada, after they were able to extin­guish the flames. Her cause-of-death also remains in ques­tion, and though an autopsy was sched­uled with the …

Some good news for your wal­let: gas prices in Ohio have dropped nearly 15 cents-per-gallon over the past week, with aver­age prices set­tling around $2.30-per-gallon. Down in Lima, a gal­lon of reg­u­lar unleaded can be had for as low as $2.02-per-gallon, nearly 20 cents lower than last week. It’s all …

Three peo­ple arrested on drug charges are get­ting a chance to do rehab rather than hard time. 25-year-old Mitchell Reade, 25-year-old Justin Delles, and 28-year-old Nik­isha Hick­er­son were each given two years’ pro­ba­tion by Branch County Cir­cuit Court Judge Bill O’Grady after they pled guilt to var­i­ous drug charges. In …

A light­ning strike is being blamed for a power out­age in Cold­wa­ter yes­ter­day morn­ing. Parts of the west side of the city remained in the dark as the sun came up fol­low­ing the strike that occurred around 4:45am as part of a sys­tem of thun­der­storms that rolled through the area. …