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Last week, the Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers went over the plans for an upgrade to the county’s Emer­gency Med­ical Ser­vices build­ing on Ohio 15. As it sits now, the project will come in at between $225,000 and $250,000 accord­ing to esti­mates pro­vided by the engi­neer­ing firm han­dling it all. The Bryan …

In Steuben County, police say Fri­day after­noon around 5, a con­cerned cit­i­zen brought a sus­pi­cious item into their Angola office. That item turned out to be an impro­vised explo­sive device. The Indi­ana State Police Bomb Squad was called in to dis­pose of the device, which was report­edly found along a …

Well, here’s some­thing you don’t hear about all that often… While exe­cut­ing a search war­rant late last week, mem­bers of the Multi-Area Nar­cotics Task Force dis­cov­ered an aggres­sive Ger­man Shep­herd… named “Nazi”, and a three foot long alli­ga­tor at a house in Defi­ance. Four peo­ple were arrested… 39 year old …

A crash Sat­ur­day night in Wauseon that left one per­son dead, is under inves­ti­ga­tion today. It hap­pened Sat­ur­day just after 8PM on Ohio 108, south of the Ohio Turn­pike, when a car appar­ently pulled out of a busi­ness dri­ve­way into the path of a big rig. Both the car and …

A dri­ver from Indi­ana was crit­i­cally injured Fri­day, when his trac­tor trailer slammed into a pick-up truck haul­ing liq­uid fer­til­izer. The crash hap­pend early Fri­day after­noon on U.S. 24 when the semi dri­ven by 75 year old Dana Cox of Indi­ana hit a tank trailer haul­ing liq­uid fer­til­izer that was …

Three arrests this week­end in Bryan, two of them involv­ing alco­hol. 22 year old Ken­neth Chap­puies of Bryan was charged wtih OVI and Open Con­tainer. He was released. 22 year old Miguel Rodriguez of Bryan was also pulled over and charged with hav­ing an open con­tainer of alco­hol, but he …

Flame on Wednes­day evening destroyed a barn in Pauld­ing County. The fire was first called in just after 9pm with a report of a blaze on County Road 49, near Payne at the barn, owned by Thomas Laukhuf. Payne, Pauld­ing, Scott, Grover Gill and Con­voy fire depart­ments, as well as …

A bicy­clist is dead fol­low­ing an acci­dent Wednes­day evening in Defi­ance. 54 year old John Clay, of Defi­ance, was south­bound on the side­walk of the Clin­ton Street Bridge on Wednes­day night, when he lost con­trol of the bike, and fell into the south­bound lane of the bridge, where he was …

There is a new pres­i­dent of the Defi­ance Area Cham­ber of Com­merce. He’s Dar­rell Handy, who said that he hopes his pro­fes­sional expe­ri­ence and work­ing rela­tion­ships within the com­mu­nity will be an asset as the next cham­ber pres­i­dent. Handy replaces Isaac Lee, who left in March, to become vice pres­i­dent …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol is remind­ing dri­vers this Memo­r­ial Day to not get behind the wheel impaired. Troop­ers and local law enforce­ment will be join­ing forces in an effort to keep Ohio roads fatal­ity free this hol­i­day. Troop­ers made 763 OVI arrests dur­ing the 2014 Memo­r­ial Day hol­i­day. Dur­ing …