Mary “Joyce” Carey, age 85, of Angola, Indiana, died at 3:40 A.M. on Thursday, March 13, 2014, at Laurels of DeKalb in Butler, Indiana, where she was a patient. Mrs. Carey was a graduate of Camden-Frontier High School and worked as a cook at the Round-Up on U.S. 20 at …

Early Sun­day morn­ing, around 2:28 AM, Bryan Police report that they arrested 53 year old Edgar Snow of Stryker, charg­ing him with OVI. Bryan Police say after Snow was processed, he was released.

A Defi­ance busi­ness has dropped a law­suit it had filed against Defi­ance City Hall over annex­a­tion pol­icy after reach­ing an agree­ment with the city. Styke­main Enter­prises filed the suit last month, in which the busi­ness requested a pre­lim­i­nary injunc­tion to keep the city from shut­ting off water ser­vice and a …

Offi­cers with the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office arrested four peo­ple on drug-related charges Fri­day night after serv­ing a search war­rant at a Fre­mont home just before mid­night. Dur­ing the search, offi­cers found an active meth lab, along with items used to make meth, along with pot and meth inside the …

A woman from the Delta area who admit­ted she tried to shoot her teenage son to death was sen­tenced Fri­day to 10 years in prison. 57 year old Can­dis Sher­man pleaded guilty in Jan­u­ary in Ful­ton County Com­mon Pleas Court, to attempted aggra­vated mur­der with a firearms spec­i­fi­ca­tion. Sher­man admit­ted …

Sandra L. Johnson, 72 years, of West Unity, passed away Monday, March 10, 2014 at her home with her family at her side.  Sandra was born June 19, 1941 in Wauseon, Ohio, the daughter of the late Orville W. and Doris M. (Lawrence) Rupp.  She was a 1959 graduate of Pettisvlle High …

Bryan Police say Mon­day morn­ing around 8:30, they picked up 27 year old Alan J. Deetz of Bryan, on a “order of arrest” from the Ohio Adult Parole Author­ity on a pro­ba­tion vio­la­tion for fail­ing to notify author­i­ties of a change of address. He was taken to CCNO.

We may have “sprung ahead” this past week­end, and spring, accord­ing to the cal­en­dar is only a lit­tle more than a week away, but old man win­ter isn’t quite ready to release his icy grip yet. The National Weather Ser­vice has issued a Win­ter Storm Watch for Williams, Defi­ance, Henry, …

A park in Napoleon may soon be going to the dogs. The Cres­cent News reports that the Napoleon parks and recre­ation board has approved a rec­om­men­da­tion for the plan­ning and con­struc­tion of a dog park. Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Girls Scouts of West­ern Ohio and Napoleon have pro­posed that a dog …

Thirty-five horses are now con­firmed dead fol­low­ing a barn fire in Branch County, Michi­gan last week­end. The fire started Sat­ur­day around mid-day at a barn owned by Nathan Baker of Angola. The horses that died in the fire were report­edly owned by an Amish fam­ily. Fire­fight­ers say it appears that …