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In Defi­ance County Court on Fri­day, a jury returned a split ver­dict against a woman accused of shoot­ing her estranged hus­band. 45 year old Pauletta Sali­nas of Defi­ance, was found not guilty of attempted aggra­vated mur­der, but guilty of felo­nious assault after the jury delib­er­ated for less than four hours. …

Trooper Ryan Brill­hart of the Spe­cial Response Team has been hon­ored for his brave actions that saved the life of a man from a burn­ing vehi­cle. He was pre­sented with the high­est form of honor, the pres­ti­gious Superintendent’s Cita­tion of Merit Award, at the High­way Patrol’s Acad­emy by Colonel Paul …

Three peo­ple were arrested on drug related charges by Angola Police on Wednes­day morn­ing fol­low­ing a traf­fic stop. Meth was found in the vehi­cle, as well as a two-year-old boy. 39-year-old Robert Phibbs of Angola was pulled over for an expired plate. An Angola K-9 alerted on the vehi­cle, where …

The bru­tal mur­der of a Bryan librar­ian 69 years ago is being high­lighted in a new doc­u­men­tary, which will pre­miere on the anniver­sary of her death. Emily Aber­nathy was killed on Sept. 19, 1946, in the Bryan library by James Robert Engle. The doc­u­men­tary about the mur­der enti­tled “Emily’s Story,” …

Trine Uni­ver­sity has been ranked by U.S. News and World Report as one of the top Mid­west­ern regional col­leges for 2016. The rank­ing is based on sev­eral fac­tors from this past spring includ­ing peer assess­ment, grad­u­a­tion and reten­tion rates, finan­cial resources and alumni giv­ing rate. The University’s Allen School of …

29 year old Tyler Richards, the fugi­tive who escaped from the Bryan Munic­i­pal Court back in March by run­ning from a pro­ba­tion offi­cer even though he had a cast on his leg, has been cap­tured. The Bryan Times reports that Richards was trav­el­ing with his girl­friend, Jen­nifer Elliot of Alvord­ton …

A law­suit filed back in April of 2014 in Steuben Supe­rior Court against the Town of Fre­mont, its police depart­ment, two Fre­mont offi­cers and the Steuben County Sher­iffs Depart­ment has been set­tled out of court in a finan­cial set­tle­ment. The law­suit was filed by Lana Fan­ning and her son Alexan­der …

A report Tues­day after­noon about a man who may have had a gun. Accord­ing to the Branch County Sheriff’s Depart­ment, an Ohio woman and her hus­band were south­bound on I­-69 near the New­ton Road over­pass when they saw a tall, thin man with short hair point­ing a gun at their …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol was out in full force this past Labor Day week­end, and reports indi­cate a decrease in traf­fic fatal­i­ties. Eleven fatal crashes resulted in 11 deaths dur­ing the report­ing period of Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 4 at 12 a.m. through Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 7 at 11:59 p.m. This is …

Norman E. Riggs, 90 years of West Unity, passed away Sunday, September 6, 2015 in the home of his son, Steven, in Woodstock, Georgia. Norman was born May 8, 1925 in Leipsic, Ohio, the son of the late Ira and Clara (Yetter) Rigg. A High School graduate, Norman enlisted in …