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A Fre­mont man was sen­tenced to six years of a ten year prison term for deal­ing metham­phet­a­mine in Steuben Cir­cuit Court. 24-year-old Niko­lus Nevois pled guilty on Sep­tem­ber 28th to a pair of Class B felony charges. Nevois was arrested last March fol­low­ing an IMAGE Drug Task Force investigation.

The Indi­ana State Fire Marshal’s Office says an explo­sion that took place at a home on the south side of Ash­ley on Mon­day night that killed one per­son and injured two oth­ers was caused by an LP gas leak with an out­side igni­tion source. Ash­ley Police said on their Face­book …

The Defi­ance City Board of Edu­ca­tion met this week to hear how a new pro­posed sports com­plex could save the dis­trict a mil­lion dol­lars and be a boost to busi­ness. Accord­ing to Brad Mor­ri­son of Maumee Bay Turf Cen­ter, the field can be used year round and last 10 years …

The Wauseon Pub­lic Library, 117 E. Elm St., will be closed is obser­vance of Thanks­giv­ing, from Nov. 26–28. The library will reopen at 10 a.m. on Mon­day, Nov. 30.

The Defi­ance County Health Depart­ment says that changes are com­ing and they will alter its pub­lic mis­sion. Many of the immu­niza­tions now offered by the health depart­ment will not be avail­able there. Because the Afford­able Care Act now cov­ers immu­niza­tions at 100 per­cent, the Health Depart­ment will not be giv­ing children’s …

With all the focus on the big box stores com­pletely chang­ing “Black Fri­day”, small busi­nesses in our area are remind­ing shop­pers that Sat­ur­day is “small busi­ness Saturday” Amer­i­can Express is part­ner­ing again with small busi­nesses all around the nation to pro­mote Small Busi­ness Sat­ur­day. It’s a rel­a­tively new tra­di­tion that …

A Henry County pas­tor is in jail for sus­pected sex crimes. He is wanted in Missouri. Robert Azinger was arrested Thurs­day by the Henry County Sheriff’s Office on a “fugi­tive from jus­tice” charge, and was arraigned Fri­day in Napoleon Munic­i­pal Court. He is being held at CCNO on a $100,000 …

Two peo­ple were arrested over the week­end by Williams County Sher­iffs Deputies. 33-year-old Michael Joyce of Toledo was charged with assault after an inci­dent that occured while Joyce was incar­cer­ated at the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio. 26-year-old David Pollino II of Lima was charged with oper­at­ing a vehi­cle while under …

Folks trav­el­ing this Thanks­giv­ing hol­i­day are strongly encour­aged to buckle up. That’s the word from the Ohio State High­way Patrol, say­ing that we“aring a safety belt is the sin­gle most effec­tive thing you can do to pro­tect your­self in a crash.” In Ohio last year dur­ing the Thanks­giv­ing hol­i­day week­end, 23 …

The Henry County Bank, 110 N. Turkey­foot Ave. in Mal­inta was robbed Mon­day morning. The Henry County Sheriff’s Office is seek­ing infor­ma­tion on the robbers. Accord­ing to Chief Deputy Arlen Cohrs, two black male sus­pects report­edly entered the bank and ordered bank employ­ees and one cus­tomer down to the floor …