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Fulton County Courts

An Arch­bold man is now fac­ing charges of felo­nious assault and attempted mur­der. 20 year old Pre­ston Klopfen­stein was indicted by a Ful­ton County grand jury. Pros­e­cu­tors allege that on Sept. 23, Klopfen­stein engaged in con­duct that, if suc­cess­ful, would have resulted in the deaths of his mother, Holly Klopfen­stein, …

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Freemont Student Killed In Tree Cutting Accident

A Fre­mont High School stu­dent died Tues­day night at Parkview Regional Med­ical Cen­ter from injuries he suf­fered in a tree cut­ting acci­dent. 16-year-old Colin Book, accord­ing to the coroner’s report, died from blunt force trauma. The acci­dent hap­pened around 4:40PM Tues­day near St. Paul’s Catholic Chapel. Book was part of …

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Trooper Involved In Crash

A trooper from the Van Wert post of the Ohio State High­way Patrol was one of three peo­ple injured when a vehi­cle slammed into his marked patrol car as he was assist­ing a stranded motorist Mon­day morn­ing. Trooper Jared Miller was taken to Pauld­ing County Hos­pi­tal for treat­ment of non-life …

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Fair Tensions Surface

Ongo­ing ten­sions between the Defi­ance County Fair Foun­da­tion and the county’s fair board sur­faced at the county com­mis­sion­ers’ meet­ing ear­lier this week. The Cres­cent News reports that on Mon­day, sev­eral mem­bers of each organization’s board were on hand for the com­mis­sion­ers’ reg­u­lar ses­sion. Some dif­fer­ences between the fair foun­da­tion — …

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Injured Teen Flown To Hospital

A teenage boy was flown out by the Samar­i­tan Heli­copter on Tues­day after­noon after ini­tial reports indi­cate a tree fell on him. Accord­ing to the lim­ited infor­ma­tion that we have avail­able at this time, res­cue crews were called out at about 4:40pm yes­ter­day. Fre­mont fire­fight­ers, Fre­mont Police, Steuben County E.M.S. …

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Toxic Algae Not An Issue In Williams County

While toxic algae is caus­ing some con­cerns in Ohio and sur­round­ing states, The Bryan Times reports that Williams County has not detected any algae blooms so far. Mean­while, the Asso­ci­ated Press is report­ing today that a toxic algae out­break, which was detected two months ago, spread more than 600 miles …

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Voters to decide fate of senior center in Henry County

Are tax­pay­ers in Henry County ready to go out of pocket for a new senior cen­ter facil­ity? A 1.1 mil, five year levy would bring in just over 800 tho­suand dol­lars, that money to be used as part of what’s needed to con­vert the site of the CD Brill­hart Elemt­nary …

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Police help four people out of Angola house fire

Four peo­ple have two Angola police offi­cers to thank for get­ting them out of a house fire Sun­day morn­ing. It was reported just before 4am at 210 West Broad. It was at a duplex where some occu­pants in the side where the fire started were already out of the res­i­dence …

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Fire burn warning in Williams County

Folks in Williams County are being told to not burn any­thing out­side today due to an increased risk for those fires to get otu of con­trol. The National Weather Ser­vice says between warm tem­per­a­tures, low humid­ity and strong winds, all the ingre­di­ents are there for flames to spread quickly.

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Utility pole crash leads to charges

An OVI charge faces the man police say drove into a util­ity pole Sun­day evening that caused a power out­age. It hap­pened on Cleve­land Avenue near Ottawa Avenue. 22 year old Jose Alvarado of Napoleon was headed east when he lost con­trol of his car. The util­ity pole was snapped …

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