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An Angola man took a plea deal with pros­e­cu­tors yes­ter­day in Steuben Supe­rior court for his actions in a police pur­suit last February. 27-year-old Keith Allen Cobb was given an 11 year sen­tence after he entered a guilty plea to felony for Pos­ses­sion With Intent to Deliver Methamphetamine. In exchange …

Just across the bor­der in Water­loo, Indi­ana, a man involved in a traf­fic crash on Sat­ur­day night was arrested Sun­day after the county sher­iff fol­lowed up on the crash at his home and found pot grow­ing in the man’s home. Deputies arrested Paulus Gene Sheets on six felony counts. Deputies …

As we get back to a nor­mal work sched­ule, we’re check­ing gas prices on this Mon­day. It’s still below $2 a gal­lon in Ohio. You can fill up at the Valero at S. Union and E. Maple in Bryan for $1.75 a gal­lon. And even more good news today. Bar­ring …

Leever Glass is stay­ing, but the name­sake, Joe Leever, is retir­ing. He told the Cresent-News that after 50 years, he’s ready for phase two of his life, and sold his part of the com­pany to his part­ner for the last 23 years, Toby Nagel. Nagel is keep­ing the long­time Leever …

In Wauseon on Fri­day, a sin­gle SUV crash killed a dri­ver and seri­ously injured her pas­sen­ger. The vic­tim is iden­ti­fied as 42-year-old Irene Saurez of Wauseon. She crashed on Ful­ton County Road 19 Fri­day morn­ing about 7 a.m. Her pas­sen­ger, 42-year-old Jose Ramirez also of Wauseon, was trans­ported in crit­i­cal …

While the rest of the schools in the state wres­tle with allow­ing guns in schools, Hicksville Schools has voted to allow cer­tain indi­vid­u­als to carry con­cealed weapons, and post on the school doors that they will use what­ever force is nec­es­sary to pro­tect stu­dents and staff. School lead­ers say it …

A fire in an apart­ment in Defi­ance yes­ter­day morn­ing did about $20,000 dam­age and the sec­ond floor sus­tained the most dam­age. The fire in the 1200 block of Ayersville Avenue was con­tained to the bed­room on that sec­ond floor. It was called in about 11:30 a.m. Inves­ti­ga­tors are still look­ing …

If you’re going to have a fire in your home, it’s most likely going to come from unat­tended cook­ing. That’s the word from recent analy­sis of fire deaths and injuries in Ohio. Bryan Assis­tant Fire Chief Dou­glas Pool told the Bryan Times there’s a sec­ond com­mon cause of fires. Elec­tri­cal …

Ama­zon is mov­ing for­ward with plans to build a wind farm in Put­nam County, to make elec­tric­ity that will power their com­pany in Ohio. The plan to build 48 new wind tur­bines is slated to begin this spring, and all are expected to be oper­at­ing by early next year. The …

Ten peo­ple have expressed inter­ested and sub­mit­ted their names for con­sid­er­a­tion in fill­ing a Defi­ance City Coun­cil seat that will become vacant next week. At-large Coun­cil­man Mike Ketcham plans to give up his at-large seat to become coun­cil pres­i­dent on Tues­day. He will replace Mike McCann, who was elected mayor …