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An Angola man accused of stab­bing his mother and sis­ter back in Jan­u­ary changed his plea in Steuben Supe­rior Court on Fri­day. 49-year-old Jef­frey Allen Pep­pler offered to plead guilty to killing his sis­ter if pros­e­cu­tors would drop the charge of attempted mur­der of his mother. Judge William Fee will …

In Henry County, a body found in the rub­ble of a burned out house on Wednes­day after­noon has been iden­ti­fied as that of 52 year old Yvonne Nel­son of Espanola, Ontario. The dis­cov­ery was made in the house at L-688 Henry County Road 17D, just south of Okolona, when fire­fight­ers …

If you live in Bryan, you can rest easy, and you should feel pretty safe. That’s because, accord­ing to an online report, Bryan is the safest city in the entire state of Ohio. The Bryan Times reports that Safe­Wise, a home secu­rity sys­tems com­pany based in Utah, says Bryan had …

The Williams County Sher­iffs Dept is ask­ing any­one with infor­ma­tion con­cern­ing the recent road sign thefts and mul­ti­ple mail box dam­ag­ing in Williams County to con­tact either the Sheriff’s office at 419 636‑3151 or the Williams County Crimestop­pers at 419 485‑9302. Any­one with infor­ma­tion lead­ing to arrests,charges,or indict­ments will receive …

A truck dri­ver was killed early Wednes­day morn­ing in a semi crash on the Ohio Turn­pike near Delta. 47 year old Rus­sell Florida of War­ren, was pro­nounced dead at the scene. The crash hap­pened early yes­ter­day morn­ing, around 12:35 a.m., when a semi dri­ven by 61 year old Charles Simons …

A 75-year-old man and 66-year-old woman in Napoleon have been arrested for Pos­ses­sion of Cocaine. The Multi Area Nar­cotics Task Force, along with Napoleon Police and the Henry County Sheriff’s Office, exe­cuted a search war­rant at 50 Sun­ny­dale Lane in Napoleon, where they found sus­pected cocaine and paraphernalia. 75 year …

Power was out for more than 8 hours Tues­day in down­town Pauld­ing after a semi got caught on a power line. Pauld­ing Police say it hap­pened Tues­day, just after­noon, when Tim Free­man, the truck dri­ver, was try­ing to find his way out of town, when his trailer caught the low …

Pauld­ing Put­nam Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive is oper­at­ing under a peak alert today. It’s all due to the hot tem­per­a­tures, and the load fore­cast. PPEC reports that it will be under a peak alert from 2–8 p.m. That’s when all cus­tomers are asked to con­serve energy, along with any peak hours, to …

A Williams County man has been charged with mur­der… again! 24 year old Tyson Reli­ford of Edger­ton, is charged with first degree mur­der in con­nec­tion with the death of 3-year-old Colum­bus girl ear­lier this year. Reli­ford was also charged with assault and child endan­ger­ment in con­nec­tion to an inci­dent that …

A Defi­ance man is sched­uled to be arraigned Mon­day in Williams County Court on charges that he sex­u­ally abused a minor. 42 year old Bobby Strat­ton was indicted ear­lier this month by a Williams County grand jury on one count of sex­ual bat­tery and two counts of unlaw­ful sex­ual con­duct …