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A Steuben County man was sen­tenced on Mon­day to 15 years in prison on a felony rape charge. Orig­i­nally, 54 year old Frank Stetler of the Angola area, had been charged with four felony counts in con­nec­tion with a sex­ual assault that hap­pened last New Years Eve. Stetler was handed …

Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties is cel­e­brat­ing Pub­lic Power Week, now through this Sat­ur­day, along with more than 2,000 other community-owned elec­tric util­i­ties across the U.S. that pro­vide elec­tric­ity on a not-for-profit basis. Pub­lic Power Week is an annual event that rec­og­nizes the ben­e­fits of local, community-owned elec­tric util­i­ties. Locally, to cel­e­brate …

The Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio is hang­ing on, by a thread. On Fri­day, the exec­u­tive board of CCNO accepted an 80-percent par­tial pay­ment of Toledo’s $1.3 mil­lion fourth quar­ter oper­at­ing debt, that will go toward sup­port­ing oper­a­tions of the jail through mid-December. The future of the rest of the …

A Defi­ance man has been arrested after being indicted on sev­eral high-level drug traf­fick­ing charges. 40 year old Jesse Sanchez was charged wtih engag­ing in a pat­tern of cor­rupt activ­ity; three counts of traf­fick­ing in cocaine; and per­mit­ting drug abuse, all felonies. Sanchez entered a plea of not guilty in …

It’s been a tense few days, but yes­ter­day things eased up a bit as the City of Toledo announced that it is mak­ing its fourth-quarter pay­ment to the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio. Still how­ever, the jail’s long-term via­bil­ity remains uncer­tain. Toledo announced last month that it may not be …

A Williams County man died early Thurs­day morn­ing in a two-vehicle crash.It hap­pened yes­ter­day morn­ing just before 7AM at U.S. 20A and Williams County Road 17 in Jef­fer­son Town­ship, when an east­bound vehi­cle dri­ven by 28 year old Samuel Sierra of West Unity, ran into the rear axle of a …

Indi­ana State Police say the Auburn woman who was the sub­ject of a Sil­ver Alert was con­fused and dis­ori­ented when a trooper pulled her over near Peru. 79-year-old Car­olin Carteaux was then taken to Dukes Memo­r­ial Hos­pi­tal in Peru for an eval­u­a­tion. State Police say they pulled the car over …

A Hills­dale County woman was flown to a Toledo Hos­pi­tal after she was shot in the chest while her daugh­ter was tar­get shoot­ing at their home. It hap­pened on West Bear Lake Road, as 46-year-old Jen­nifer Nay­back was walk­ing in front of her home, when she was struck by a …

Dorothy A. Semer, 82 of Montpelier, passed away Tuesday afternoon at the Community Hospitals and Wellness Center in Montpelier.  She was born on March 9, 1933 in West Unity to Jacob F. and Mary C. (Rutledge) Zuver. A Williams County resident for all of her life.  She graduated from West Unity Schools …

Stu­dents with an associate’s degree from Terra State or North­west State com­mu­nity col­leges will have a new, more flex­i­ble option to achieve a bachelor’s degree, and pos­si­bly earn cred­its toward a master’s degree, thanks to part­ner­ship agree­ments announced with Herz­ing Uni­ver­sity, which has a cam­pus in Toledo. The new Degree …