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A wad of cash along with a gun and ammu­ni­tion remains miss­ing from the evi­dence room of the Auburn Police Depart­ment. Over $2,000, a shot­gun, the ammo, and some knives were first noticed miss­ing back in Jan­u­ary when some­one went to retrieve the money as evi­dence in a case. Police …

Ohio High­way Patrol and other depart­ments are look­ing into a wreck that took the life of a motor­cy­cle rider. The inci­dent occurred yes­ter­day evening just before 6pm on High­way 127. Police say that 18-year-old Wyatt Puffin­berger of Bryan turned left in front of an oncom­ing motor­cy­cle rid­den by 26-year-old Bryan …

An ATV acci­dent Mon­day night sent a Per­rys­burg man to the hos­pi­tal. Ohio State Patrol responded a call just after 7:30 that evening and found 38-year-old Thomas Pis­archik lying a short dis­tance from his wrecked ATV. He had been trav­el­ing down Defiance-Paulding County Line Road with 62-year-old Larry Atch­ley at …

A house fire in Henry County last week that uncov­ered a woman’s body is still under inves­ti­ga­tion. Fire­fight­ers found the body of 52-year-old Yvonne Nel­son of Ontario, Canada, after they were able to extin­guish the flames. Her cause-of-death also remains in ques­tion, and though an autopsy was sched­uled with the …

Some good news for your wal­let: gas prices in Ohio have dropped nearly 15 cents-per-gallon over the past week, with aver­age prices set­tling around $2.30-per-gallon. Down in Lima, a gal­lon of reg­u­lar unleaded can be had for as low as $2.02-per-gallon, nearly 20 cents lower than last week. It’s all …

Three peo­ple arrested on drug charges are get­ting a chance to do rehab rather than hard time. 25-year-old Mitchell Reade, 25-year-old Justin Delles, and 28-year-old Nik­isha Hick­er­son were each given two years’ pro­ba­tion by Branch County Cir­cuit Court Judge Bill O’Grady after they pled guilt to var­i­ous drug charges. In …

A light­ning strike is being blamed for a power out­age in Cold­wa­ter yes­ter­day morn­ing. Parts of the west side of the city remained in the dark as the sun came up fol­low­ing the strike that occurred around 4:45am as part of a sys­tem of thun­der­storms that rolled through the area. …

Indi­ana state sen­ater Den­nis Kruse of Auburn, who chairs the Senate’s edu­ca­tion com­mit­tee, is ask­ing his state’s leg­is­la­ture to aggres­sively tackle a short­age of teach­ers enter­ing the class­room. Reports have shown the num­ber of first-time teach­ers has dropped by nearly 20 per­cent over the past five years, mak­ing it dif­fi­cult …

A man who eluded police in three states was finally stopped in Hills­dale County when spike strips were used to dis­able his vehi­cle. 37-year-old Gabriel Gam­bler and his pas­sen­ger tossed drugs out the win­dow while run­ning from police in Williams County and Steuben County before being appre­hended. Gam­bler has already …

A rollover crash on I-69 in DeKalb County over the week­end is being blamed on an ani­mal in the road­way. 18-year-old Drake Stafford some­how escaped with only cuts and bruises after his pickup truck rolled mul­ti­ple times Sat­ur­day evening when he over­cor­rected after swerv­ing to miss an ani­mal a cou­ple …