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Power to Defi­ance Ele­men­tary School was cut yes­ter­day morn­ing, forc­ing the school to dis­miss stu­dents from kinder­garten through the fifth grade around 11 a.m. The out­age was caused by line that was knocked down at the site of the new school going up nearby.

In Steuben County, the Sher­iff is look­ing for 33-year-old Shan­non Croghan, who has a war­rant for her arrest after fail­ing to return to law­ful deten­tion. She’s fac­ing a felony charge now, after being granted a 30-day tem­po­rary release from a theft case. She may be in the Auburn or Water­loo …

In DeKalb County, deputies stopped a car on I-69 at the Auburn exit and found over 14 pounds of pot. Two peo­ple were arrested, the dri­ver, 18-year-old Colt Mal­ott of Mar­ion, charged with deal­ing and other related charges. His pas­sen­ger, Kathryn Pogue of Broad­view Heights, was arrested for Dealing.

A for­mer pas­tor and sub­sti­tute bus dri­ver for Lib­erty Cen­ter Schools been charged with hav­ing child pornog­ra­phy. He’s 51-year-old Ger­ald Searle, charged with receiv­ing the images from 2013 to 2015. He was inves­ti­gated by the Office of the Inspec­tor Gen­eral, the Ohio Bureau of Crim­i­nal Inves­ti­ga­tion and being han­dled by …

A 29-year-old Defi­ance woman was sent to prison on Fri­day for drug charges. Char­lotte Holt was sen­tenced to 54 months in prison on felony charges related to meth and endan­ger­ing chil­dren. A co-defendant was sen­tenced last Octo­ber to 8 years for his role. Shawn Clevinger was con­victed of four felony …

Defi­ance County Sher­iff has charged two men in a rob­bery last week in Sher­wood. 19-year-old Damon Cores­sel and 26-year-old Dequa­vis Far­ris are charged with rob­bery and now in the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio. They have a court date this morn­ing in Defi­ance Munic­i­pal Court. The men were arrested after …

The 8th annual March for Life was held in Defi­ance on Fri­day, with a large crowd gath­ered at the Defi­ance County Cour­t­house. The local March is held to coin­cide with the anniver­sary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court deci­sion in 1973 that made abor­tion legal in the states.

Nearly 9,500 flights were can­celed nation­wide over the week­end, while much of the east­ern US and Mid-Atlantic states were buried in up to 3 feet of snow. Travel delays are expected today, so check with your air­line if you’re fly­ing today.

Gas prices con­tinue to fall or stay low. Check­ing this morn­ing, it’s $1.57 at the Cir­cle K on S. Main at South St. Prices con­tinue to fall, due to great sup­ply. Ohio is in the top five low­est price states, at $1.56 a gal­lon, right along side Indi­ana. Cal­i­for­nia is …

New infor­ma­tion released by the City of Napoleon states that for­mer coun­cil­man Jef­frey Mar­i­hugh was being inves­ti­gated for sex­ual harass­ment reported by three city employ­ees in Novem­ber. The com­plaints were inves­ti­gated, accord­ing to the city, and they say Mar­i­hugh admit­ted mak­ing “off color” remarks. He resigned after the coun­cil pres­i­dent …