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A Defi­ance man was in Defi­ance County Court to answer to two methamphetamine-related charges. 21 year old Schuy­lar Win­kler pleaded guilty to aggra­vated pos­ses­sion of drugs and ille­gal assem­bly or pos­ses­sion of chem­i­cals for the man­u­fac­ture of drugs, both felonies. A pre-sentence inves­ti­ga­tion was ordered and Winkler’s $500,000 cash bond …

Some Pauld­ing County roads have been closed due to high water, and many folks are busy fill­ing sand­bags to help pro­tect homes from ris­ing water. The state has closed Ohio 66 between Ohio 637 and Ohio 613 near Oak­wood as well as Ohio 500 from the Indi­ana state line to …

In But­ler, Police now say that three chil­dren were respon­si­ble for the March 26th fire which destroyed the Old But­ler Com­pany build­ing on South Broad­way. The two boys and a girl… all ages 11 and 12, appar­ently spread gas inside of the build­ing and set a cou­ple of fires. Police …

Arch­bold Vil­lage Coun­cil took steps this week, to place a replace­ment levy on the Novem­ber bal­lot. Coun­cil voted unan­i­mously to place a 3.3-mill replace­ment prop­erty tax levy on the Novem­ber bal­lot. Accord­ing to Arch­bold offi­cials, the replace­ment levy would raise an addi­tional $389,000 per year begin­ning in tax year 2016, …

A one-vehicle injury crash occurred on Ohio 637, north of Grover Hill, early Tues­day morn­ing. The Ohio High­way Patrol says it hap­pened around 2:20am yes­ter­day, when a semi-tractor trailer dri­ven by Gre­gory Burns, of Mar­ion, was south­bound on Ohio 637. The truck trav­eled off the right side of the road­way …

The Board of Direc­tors of Cameron Memo­r­ial Com­mu­nity Hos­pi­tal didn’t have to look very hard for the hospital’s new Pres­i­dent and Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer. Con­nie McC­ahill has been the Chief Oper­at­ing Offi­cer at Cameron for the past three years. Now, she has been appointed by the board to the Pres­i­dent …

An Arch­bold man, accused of steal­ing more than $37,500 from an elderly Bryan widow, will be sen­tenced in Williams County Court next month. 27 year old Keith Pedigo pleaded guilty on Mon­day to third-degree felony theft from an elderly per­son. The guilty plea clears the way for Pedigo’s sen­tenc­ing, which …

Three sus­pects are still on the run, but a get­away vehi­cle has been recov­ered fol­low­ing the rob­bery of the Farm­ers State Bank in Ash­ley on Mon­day morn­ing. Accord­ing to the sheriff’s office, the sus­pects entered the bank, dis­played a hand­gun, demanded money from the tellers and got away in a …

Bryan Police made some arrests. Accord­ing to a report issued this morn­ing, 19 year old Dakota McNany of Bryan was arrested Sat­ur­day, and charged with con­sum­ing under­age, and pos­ses­sion of mar­i­juana. He was released on his own recog­ni­zance. On Sat­ur­day, 20 year old Justin Antigo of Bryan, was arrested and …

Williams County Com­mis­sioner, 66 year old Al Word, announced Mon­day he will not seek re-election in 2016. Word had been cir­cu­lat­ing nom­i­nat­ing peti­tions and secur­ing sig­na­tures for re-election for the past cou­ple of months. On Mon­day, he sim­ply said he changed his mind. Word then said that he plans to …