News

Police dis­cov­ered more than 25 trash bags full of items used to make metham­phet­a­mine tossed into Pigeon Creek this past week­end. Steuben County sheriff’s staff and Indi­ana con­ser­va­tion offi­cers pulled the bags from a stretch of creek between Golden Lake and Hog­back Lake on Sun­day. After fur­ther study, the mate­ri­als …

An Arch­bold man was set free yes­ter­day after a West Vir­ginia judge dis­missed mur­der charges for lack of evi­dence. 52-year-old Charles Free­man, along with 40-year-old Joseph Metz of West Vir­ginia, were acquit­ted of the 1999 dis­ap­pear­ance and deaths of Metz’ mother and grand­mother. With no crime scene, mur­der weapon, or …

A Pauld­ing County man was found dead Wednes­day evening fol­low­ing an acci­dent involv­ing a farm trac­tor. Deputies responded to a call shortly before 8:30pm and found 75-year-old Richard Ross lying in a field west of Jack­son Town­ship. It appeared that Ross had fallen from the cab of his trac­tor, pos­si­bly …

LeGrange County inves­ti­ga­tors are ask­ing for the public’s help in locat­ing a miss­ing teenager. The sheriff’s depart­ment says that 17-year-old Faith Ann Ritche was last seen Tues­day after­noon at her home. Ritche is described as being a white female, 5’5″, 160 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes. She was …

A Pauld­ing County farm is mak­ing prepa­ra­tions to host a statewide fundraiser for can­cer research next week­end. McClure Farms in Wash­ing­ton Town­ship will host the event called Cul­ti­vat­ing a Cure, which is put on by the Ohio Farm Bureau and has raised nearly $200,000 since its incep­tion in 2011. Pro­ceeds …

A pro­posed nat­ural gas pipeline is being held up by Sum­mit County res­i­dents who refused to allow sur­vey­ors onto their land. The three-foot, $2 bil­lion Nexus Pipeline would run 250 miles from Columbiana County to Defi­ance before turn­ing north toward Michi­gan and con­nect­ing with another pipeline in Ontario. The company’s …

Angola is con­sid­er­ing whether or not to annex a num­ber of sub­di­vi­sions of County Road 100N just west of town. Offi­cials say a sig­nif­i­cant num­ber of sep­tic sys­tem fail­ures in the area prompted the dis­cus­sion by the Board of Pub­lic Works ear­lier this week. Should the annex­a­tion go for­ward, that …

One of the world’s largest prop­erty insur­ers has awarded a grant to the Auburn Fire Depart­ment. The $2,500 fire pre­ven­tion grant from FM Global will be used for pub­lic edu­ca­tion of fire pre­ven­tion and responses to help reduce the num­ber of fires in the community.

The Ohio Parole Board voted unan­i­mously to rec­om­mend that the gov­er­nor reject a plea for clemency from 61-year-old for­mer coin dealer Tom Noe. Noe was con­victed in 2006 for theft of any­where from $13 mil­lion to $50 mil­lion in rare-coin invest­ment funds. Should Gov. John Kasich agree with the board, …

A single-vehicle crash yes­ter­day morn­ing is being inves­ti­gated by local deputies. The wreck hap­pened just before 7am yes­ter­day on State Route 576 when 54-year-old Mar­tin Cole of Edon tried to turn onto Williams County Road H. Instead, he ran off the road­way and struck a util­ity pole. The Williams County …