Sandusky County News

PORT CLINTON -- A Fremont man was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for breaking into a Clay Township home.

CLYDE - A man suspected of abducting a 63-year-old woman and taking her to Florida planned to go on the run, police reported.

Anne Warner's week was ruined the moment she opened the Sunday newspaper. There in The Blade, in a breed-by-breed chart of every dog euthanized this year by the Lucas County dog warden, were numbers for collies and border collies: 10 and seven dogs, respectively, euthanized in 2009.

There are tough decisions ahead at the Sandusky County Sheriff's Department. Commissioners have ordered Sheriff Kyle Overmyer to slash $140,000 out of his $4 million budget, which isn't sitting easy with the sheriff.

CLYDE -- Warren and Wendy Brown are in Washington, D.C., this week to make sure money is being appropriated for childhood cancer research.

The Fremont police and Sandusky County Sheriff's departments are trying to find Johnathan D. Matthews regarding several drug trafficking cases.

FREMONT -- Seventeen-year-old Nick Slane was inspired by his grandpa at the age of 9 to be involved with civil war re-enactments. Slane gave a presentation Sunday at the Sandusky County Historical Society about the Berdan Sharp Shooters.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency , in partnership with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources , will host a flood risk information open house for Sandusky County on Thursday, Nov.

CLYDE -- A Toledo hospital would not give out the condition of the city man who was shot in the neck Friday.

FREMONT -- The Sandusky County Historical Society will have a program Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in the Victorian era Museum Home, 514 Birchard Ave.

A jewelry store burglary on Friday the 13th left the owner laughing at the criminals.

A 51-year-old Fremont man was arrested for carrying a concealed loaded gun and then was named as a suspect in the Friday shooting of a 52-year-old Clyde, Ohio, man, Fremont police said.

FREMONT -- Flags were waving in the gusty winds, while people of all ages paid tribute to veterans.

The Sandusky County Agricultural Society is looking for individuals interested in filling a vacancy on the Sandusky County Fair Board for Sandusky Township.

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FREMONT -- A city man faces up to 15 years in prison for having sexual contact with a female juvenile that started when she was 12.

The Sandusky County Health Department is announcing an H1N1 vaccination clinic to be held Sunday, November 15, from 1-5 p.m., or until supply is exhausted, at Gibsonburg High School , 740 S. Main Street, Gibsonburg.

Magruder Hospital is starting a new Tai Chi session in the Conference Center at 10 a.m. Wednesdays beginning Nov.

Ottawa and Sandusky County rural landowners enrolled in the Current Agricultural Use Valuation program are invited to attend an educational workshop to learn why farmland property values increased this year.

A 24-year-old Toledo woman who recently delivered premature twins died of what is presumed to be complications from H1N1, the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department and relatives said Friday.