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A man who robbed the CVS Phar­macy in Angola of med­ica­tions last July before lead­ing police on a chase which ended at the Lions Den adult book store north of Cold­wa­ter was sen­tenced on Mon­day in Steuben County Court, to nine years of a 12 year prison sen­tence. 40-year-old Joseph …

A Pleas­ant Lake man pleaded guilty to felony Sex­ual Mis­con­duct with a Minor on Mon­day in Steuben Cir­cuit Court. 45-year-old Charles Grime’s agree­ment calls for a sen­tenc­ing cap of eight years with four years of pro­ba­tion. There would also be a no con­tact order on behalf of the alleged vic­tim …

An eight-year-old boy was killed Sun­day night when he rode his bicy­cle into the path of a pickup truck near Orland. Accord­ing to the STeuben County Sheriff’s Office, the fatal acci­dent hap­pened just after 8pm on County Road 700 North, when 55-year-old Bucky Ster­ling of Orland was dri­ving west the …

The Amer­i­can Red Cross will hold sev­eral blood dri­ves in two coun­ties. A blood drive will be held on Mon­day, June 29, from 2:30–6:30 p.m. at the Fam­ily Chris­t­ian Cen­ter in Defi­ance. In Pauld­ing County, a blood drive will also be held on June 29, from 2–7 p.m. at the …

A motor­cy­clist from Canada died early Sun­day morn­ing when his bike was rear ended on I-69 north of Ash­ley. The crash hap­pened at 2:25am at the 343.5 mile marker on the south­bound side of I-69, when a vehi­cle dri­ven by 36 year old Chet Gilbert of Ash­ley, and a Harley …

On Sat­ur­day, June 27, all res­i­dents of Williams County will receive free admis­sion to the his­toric Sauder Vil­lage as part of Williams County Com­mu­nity Appre­ci­a­tion Day. Free admis­sion is being offered to all Williams County res­i­dents as a way to say thank you for their sup­port. On Williams County Day …

Keith Lock­hart now owns a piece of Bryan his­tory. The Bryan Times today, reports that Lock­hart sub­mit­ted the win­ning bid of $30,800 Thurs­day dur­ing an open auc­tion of the for­mer Williams County Sheriff’s Office and county jail build­ing in down­town Bryan. Lock­hart is a Mont­pe­lier con­struc­tion con­trac­tor. He actu­ally bid …

Accord­ing to a deci­sion by the Defi­ance County Board of Elec­tions, a Hicksville may­oral candidate’s Inde­pen­dent sta­tus is invalid. The board decided by a 3–1, that David Schoo­ley can­not run as an Inde­pen­dent for mayor in the Novem­ber gen­eral elec­tion due to his con­nec­tion with the Defi­ance County Demo­c­ra­tic Party. …

A Defi­ance man is now behind bars, after his arrest for tak­ing part in a Wednes­day morn­ing rob­bery at the North­towne Mall. 21 year old Kyle March is being charged with felony rob­bery. He is being held in the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio, and is sched­uled to make an …

The for­mer Williams County jail at the cor­ner of North Beech and West Bryan streets is going on the auc­tion block today. By order of the Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers, the two-story, 9,027-square-foot brick for­mer jail and county sheriff’s office will be auc­tioned off to the high­est bid­der. The auc­tion is …