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A tie vote by Defi­ance County’s board of elec­tions on the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of a Hicksville may­oral can­di­date will now send the mat­ter on up to a higher author­ity. The board voted 2–2 in decid­ing whether David Schoo­ley should be cer­ti­fied as a Demo­c­ra­tic can­di­date in Novem­ber for the Hicksville mayor’s …

The Ohio Depart­ment of Health con­firmed on Wednes­day that the state’s first fatal West Nile virus human case took place in Williams County. A 91-year-old Williams County man, whose name has not been released, was hos­pi­tal­ized with encephali­tis. So far this year, there have been eight reported human cases of …

On Tues­day, the Bryan Board of Pub­lic Affairs approved the hir­ing of a com­pany to com­plete archi­tec­tural and engi­neer­ing ser­vices for a new data cen­ter for Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties on East Edger­ton Street. The con­cern is over whether the util­i­ties should have a more secure struc­ture that can with­stand harsh …

Flames early Mon­day morn­ing destroyed a home and a garage in But­ler. For­tu­nately, fire­fight­ers were able to save the house next door. The first call came in just before 3am Mon­day for the fire at 324 West Main Street in But­ler. Fire­fight­ers from But­ler, Edger­ton, Angola, Auburn, Water­loo, Spencerville, and …

The past 24 hours or so have kept Bryan Police on their toes. Last evening just before 6pm, Bryan PDarrested 26 year old Sally Schang of Kun­kle for Receiv­ing Stolen Prop­erty. Then at 8:00PM, 31 year old Don­ald Pursel III of Bryan was arrested for two counts of Theft. Last …

The man who died in a crash on the north side of Fort Wayne last Thurs­day has been iden­ti­fied. Accord­ing to the Allen County Coroner’s Office, 40 year old Nel­son Hyatt of Angola was killed in the acci­dent on I-69 north of Union Chapel Road. Hyatt was north­bound in a …

In Pauld­ing County, a man has been arrested in con­nec­tion with the death of a Payne man. 26 year old Andrew Mar­tin of Payne, was charged with ille­gal man­u­fac­ture of drugs and cor­rupt­ing another with drugs… both felonies. Martin’s arrest fol­lows the dis­cov­ery of 50 year old Cary Par­son of …

A Defi­ance man was arrested Mon­day morn­ing in con­nec­tion with a break-in at Dol­lar Gen­eral on South Clin­ton Street in Defi­ance. 20 year old Dustin Her­nan­dez is now charged with break­ing and enter­ing and is being held behind bars in the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio. Another man, pos­si­bly dri­ving …

An uptick in fatal crashes here in Ohio, has the high­way patrol urg­ing dri­vers to use cau­tion. Statewide, there has been an increase of 38 fatal­i­ties this year over the same period last year. There are 600 con­firmed fatal­i­ties this year com­pared to the 562 fatal­i­ties that were con­firmed a …

In Bryan, the new 6–12 school build­ing project is mov­ing for­ward nicely. The walls are going up, and the foun­da­tions are almost com­plete. The Bryan Times reports that the project is on sched­ule. Seed­ing of top soil should begin soon, then heavy mate­ri­als will begin to arrive as the 150,000 …