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It was an anony­mous tip that lead to the arrest of a local woman who was already wanted on one war­rant, on four other charges. 26 year old Lacey Hayes of West Unity was at a home on West Church Street, when some­one called West Unity Police to tip them …

A man who is on the run, and described as a mur­der sus­pect by police, was spot­ted last week­end in Napoleon. It was around 8:45 last Sat­ur­day morn­ing, when Romualdo Cor­doba Jr. i was seen in Napoleon in the park­ing lot at Wal­mart. Since then how­ever, local law enforce­ment author­i­ties …

Action on pro­posed changes to the oper­at­ing agree­ment for the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio were delayed this week, to allow offi­cials from the City of Toledo and Lucas County to con­tinue talks. CCNO offi­cials had gath­ered Wednes­day expect­ing to dis­cuss some 11 pro­posed changes to the oper­at­ing agree­ment that …

A crash on Inter­state 75 in Wood County Wednes­day morn­ing shut down both the north and south­bound lanes for approx­i­mately two hours. A Sub­aru Legacy dri­ven by 22 year old Rebecca Beer­man of Lan­caster was south­bound on I-75 in the right lane. Her vehi­cle trav­eled off the right side of …

A woman who police say broke into two Mont­pe­lier homes last week, was indicted Wednes­day by a Williams County grand jury. The Bryan Times reports that 35 year old Sarah Doyle ille­gally entered homes on Ran­dolph and Court Streets last Fri­day after­noon. In fact, the owner of the home on …

A Bryan man will be arraigned on Tues­day morn­ing on charges related to his alleged rape of a six year old girl. 40 year old William John­son JR, has a his­tory of vio­lent crimes. John­son is accused of rap­ing the young girl on or about April 12. The girl’s name …

A Stryker man is accused of hold­ing a woman against her will and assault­ing her with a knife. Accord­ing to Williams County Pros­e­cu­tor Kirk Yosick, 23 year old Jochua Small­wood, on April 10, kept a woman con­fined to a home and would not allow her to leave. Small­wood allegedly also …

Well, that didn’t last long… The open­ing day of the aggra­vated mur­der trial of Steven Noff­singer of Defi­ance was cut short after addi­tional infor­ma­tion was dis­cov­ered. The trial of the 59 year old Noff­isinger was con­tin­ued on Tues­day fol­low­ing tes­ti­mony from a for­mer Pauld­ing County Sheriff’s deputy, which turned up …

Defi­ance Col­lege will hold com­mence­ment cer­e­monies for 219 grad­u­ates on Sun­day. The cer­e­mony will begin at noon in front of Pil­grim Library. Guest speaker for com­mence­ment will be Laura Cald­well, a dis­tin­guished scholar in res­i­dence at Loy­ola Uni­ver­sity Chicago School of Law, where she founded Life After Inno­cence, a project …

Low clear­ance warn­ings below two CSX Rail­road viaducts in Defi­ance were finally work­ing as intended, but now one of them has been removed until a new loca­tion for it is found. In all, four of the new signs were installed ear­lier this year. The prob­lem quickly became appar­ent, when the …