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A house fire over the week­end in Defi­ance that was said to have been caused by light­ning left three peo­ple with­out a roof over their heads. It hap­pened early Sat­ur­day morn­ing, around 5AM, and when fire crews arrived, the fire was dis­cov­ered in the attic of the house on Hop­kins …

A sus­pi­cious object turned up in down­town Auburn on Fri­day morn­ing, and it was found to have con­tained metham­phet­a­mine related items. Auburn Police say it was a brown suit­case that was found sit­ting close to a build­ing in the 100 block of West 5th Street. That suit­case turned out to …

68 year old Defi­ance County Sher­iff David Westrick has announced that he will not seek re-election because of health con­cerns. Westrick has ser­aved for more than three decades. He suf­fered a mild heart attack ear­lier this year and says he has also been diag­nosed with Parkinson’s dis­ease. Westrick is cur­rently …

The inves­ti­ga­tion con­tin­ues fol­low­ing the arrest of an Auburn man after Auburn Police found ille­gal drugs and pos­si­ble drug related and stolen items in his vehi­cle. 23-year-old Bran­don Robert­son was stopped for dri­ving on a sus­pended dri­vers license. Robert­son was also wanted out of Noble County for Fail­ure to Appear, …

A van­dal­ism com­plaint at One Cour­t­house Square led deputies to find that some­one had carved grafit­tie on the rim of the foun­tain there. The graf­fiti referred, in graphic detail, to the 1946 mur­der of Emily Aber­nathy, who was mur­dered by James R. Engle in the base­ment of the Williams County …

In Pauld­ing County Court, a man man this week pleaded not guilty to an invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter charge and three drug-related charges. 26 year old Andrew Mar­tin of Payne, was indicted on one count of invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter, a felony; two counts of cor­rupt­ing another with drugs, also a felony; and ille­gal …

The Pauld­ing Police Depart­ment is inves­ti­gat­ing an arson at the vil­lage skate park. On Mon­day, they say some­one placed a mat­tress on the mid­dle skate ramp and set it on fire. The Pauld­ing Fire Depart­ment rushed to put the blaze out. The park was imme­di­ately closed and must now remain …

Offi­cials at the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio were told to come up with a plan to deal with Toledo not fully pay­ing their $1.389 mil­lion invoice after the City gave notice that it may not be able to pay its Oct. 1 bill. The news all sur­faced dur­ing Wednesday’s …

The for­mer direc­tor of pro­ba­tion ser­vices for Pauld­ing County has been indicted on felony charges. 46 year old Emily Munger was indicted this week for theft in office, a third-degree felony, and tam­per­ing with records, also a third-degree felony. She will be arraigned in Pauld­ing County Com­mon Pleas court on …

A quick note from the Williams County Sher­iffs Depart­ment, say­ing that Deputies made an arrest on Wednes­day. 38 year old Robert Barker of Bryan was arrested on a Williams County Com­mon Pleas court war­rant for Traf­fick­ing in Drugs. He was taken to the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of NW Ohio. No other …