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A long-closed bridge in Lenawee County is in dan­ger of los­ing out on grant eli­gi­bil­ity. The bridge on Town­line High­way between Adrian and Rome has been closed since 2008, and the longer a bridge stays closed, the less pri­or­ity it receives for state fund­ing. In fact, the state is try­ing …

A three-year-old girl was killed last week in a south­ern Michi­gan house fire. Branch County sheriff’s deputies had to restrain the girl’s fam­ily from re-entering the house. It took a half-dozen fire teams about 90 min­utes to extin­guish the blaze, but they were never able to reach the girl due …

For­mer Toledo mayor Jack Ford passed away over the week­end at the age of 67. Ford had been at Toledo Hos­pi­tal for about ten days with flu-like symp­toms before dying on Sat­ur­day. Ford spent seven years in the Ohio House before serv­ing Toledo. The news comes just six weeks after …

Indi­ana Con­ser­va­tion offi­cers are inves­ti­gat­ing an acci­dent after the vic­tim was dis­cov­ered lying on the side of Route 27 north of Auburn late Fri­day night with a Honda ATV nearby. Two motorists found 42-year-old Travis L. Hypes of Water­loo, who was air­lifted to a Fort Wayne hos­pi­tal. Inves­ti­ga­tors are treat­ing …

A man from Defi­ance is accused of 14 child porn related charges. 25 year old Alexan­der Rose­brook pleaded not guilty at his arraign­ment on eight counts of pan­der­ing sexually-oriented mat­ter involv­ing a minor, and six counts of ille­gal use of a minor in nudity-oriented mate­r­ial or per­for­mance. All those charges …

At this week’s reg­u­lar meet­ing, the Williams County Health Dis­trict Health Board agreed to a new pol­icy pro­hibit­ing use of e-cigarettes on health depart­ment prop­erty and ban­ning nico­tine and tobacco users from being offered employ­ment. The plan was announced by dis­trict lead­ers, who said they felt it was impor­tant that …

A woman from Bryan was picked up by Bryan Police yes­ter­day morn­ing. 29 year old Sara Loyd of East Wil­son Street was arrested by Bryan PD Thurs­day morn­ing at about 9 on a bench war­rant that had been issued from Bryan Munic­i­pal Court for fail­ure to appear on an orig­i­nal …

The Administration/Non-Profit Joint Board of Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter will meet on Tues­day, March 24, at noon in the con­fer­ence room at the facil­ity located at 427 N. Defi­ance St., Stryker.

A Grover Hill man was in Put­nam County Court on Wednes­day, where he was hit with the max­i­mum sen­tence he could get on some drug charges. 53 year old David Ranes, who went on trial last month, was given 22 years in prison on charges of engag­ing in a pat­tern …

The Defi­ance Area YMCA was evac­u­ated late Wednes­day after­noon due to a bomb threat. It was just before 6pm when the Y got a phone call from a man who said there was a bomb in the build­ing. The facil­ity was evac­u­ated, and offi­cers scoured the premises, but found noth­ing. …