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Police warn of impersonators in Ft. Wayne

The Mont­pe­lier Police Chief is warn­ing dri­vers that a two white males have made three traf­fic stops in Fort Wayne, imper­son­at­ing law enforce­ment in an unmarked car. They were “clean cut and preppy” and one wit­ness said they appeared intox­i­cated and iden­ti­fied them­selves as CIA. Dur­ing one inci­dent, the men …

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Two in custody in sex crime case in Branch County

Michi­gan State Police have made two arrests fol­low­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion into alleged crim­i­nal sex­ual con­duct and extor­tion. A third sus­pect is the sub­ject of a search. State Police said in a release yes­ter­day that the case goes back at least eight years. The alleged crimes took place in Branch County’s …

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Bryan woman arrested on North Dakota warrant

One arrest by the Williams County Sher­iffs Dept. 28-year-old Bianca Trevino of Bryan was arrested on New Years Eve morn­ing on a felony war­rant out of North Dakota. The warrant’s orig­i­nal charges were ter­ror­iz­ing and sim­ple assault.

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Smith to be honored on Paulding Wall of Honor

The Pauld­ing County Wall of Honor at the cour­t­house has a new name. Ran­dall Smith, a Pauld­ing native, died last July from injuries he received dur­ing a domes­tic ter­ror­ist attack on the Navy Oper­a­tions Sup­port Cen­ter in Chat­tanooga. His name will be placed under a new cat­e­gory: Global War on …

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Help for college students applying for Financial Aid

Par­ents of prospec­tive col­lege stu­dents can learn about Finan­cial Aid at a work­shop next Wednes­day, Jan­u­ary 6th. The Defi­ance County Coun­selors Asso­ci­a­tion hosts the annual pro­gram to help par­ents and stu­dents under­stand how to apply for finan­cial aid through FAFSA… the Free Appli­ca­tion for Fed­eral Stu­dent Aid, which helps fam­i­lies …

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City offices closed Friday

On this New Year’s Eve, a reminder that city offices will be closed tomor­row. Trash pickup for tomor­row will be moved to Tues­day, Jan. 5.

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New Continental FD truck in service

You may see Con­ti­nen­tal Fire Department’s new fire truck on your trav­els. The new pumper cost almost a quar­ter of a mil­lion dol­lars and holds 3,000 gal­lons of water.

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Crash injures three in Camden, MI

A crash in Cam­den, Michi­gan injured three peo­ple Tues­day. In a release yes­ter­day, Hills­dale County Sheriff’s Depart­ment said the dri­ver of a car became ill and lost con­scious­ness while on South Edon Rd. He drove off the road and flipped the car. He was sent by med­ical heli­copter to a …

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Fayette semi-crash victim identified

The Fayette man killed in a two-vehicle crash on I-69 in Steuben County has been iden­ti­fied as 68-year-old Mar­ion Gar­ri­son. He lost con­trol Mon­day after­noon on the icy inter­state, hit a guardrail and crashed into a semi. Gar­ri­son was pro­nounced dead at the scene. He was not wear­ing a seat …

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Edon mayor to retire

The mayor of Edon is retir­ing. Dar­lene Burkhardt has lived in the vil­lage her whole life, and is ready to relax and enjoy the fruits of her labor, over­see­ing the county for 8 years as mayor, 21 years as Flo­rence Town­ship clerk and on the Board of Elec­tions for Williams …

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