A man already charged in fed­eral court in Defi­ance in con­nec­tion with the dis­tri­b­u­tion of cocaine has been arraigned. Ryan Bow­man of Payne, pleaded not guilty in the U.S. Dis­trict Court for the North­ern Dis­trict of Indi­ana to con­spir­acy to deliver more than five kilo­grams of cocaine. Bow­man was one …

The Amer­i­can Civil Lib­er­ties Union of Ohio has sent a let­ter to the super­in­ten­dent of the Edon North­west Local School Dis­trict ask­ing him to aban­don sec­tar­ian poli­cies and prac­tices that the ACLU claims vio­late the First Amend­ment to the U.S. Con­sti­tu­tion. The let­ter comes as the ACLU is inves­ti­gat­ing reports …

A Henry County woman was injured in a Mon­day evening crash. It hap­pened as 77 year old JoAnn Baden­hop of McClure was trav­el­ing west on US-24 in Lib­erty Town­ship, when her vehi­cle went out of con­trol, hit the median, then a sign, and finally stopped after flip­ping over twice. McClure, …

Harold F. Dunn, 93, of Fremont, Indiana and formerly of Waldron, Michigan passed away Saturday at Cameron Memorial Community Hospital in Angola, Indiana.  He was born on March 17, 1922 in Dexter, Michigan to Howard and Adeline (Brandt) Dunn.  Harold graduated from Dexter High School in Dexter, Michigan.  On December 30, 1977 he …

Bryan police report the arrest of 21 year old Kristo­pher Shutts [SHUTS] of Bryan on a Felony war­rant out of Steuben County Cir­cuit Court. The orig­i­nal charge against Shutts was Inter­fer­ence with Cus­tody. He was taken to CCNO. Also arrested on Mon­day… 21 year old Brook Lil­lard of Wes­ley Avenue …

In Defi­ance, city employee over­time costs topped $550,000 last year with the police and fire depart­ments account­ing for more than two-thirds of that expense. The Cres­cent News reports that city records indi­cate that $201,302 went for fire depart­ment over­time costs, and $156,194 was paid for police over­time… 64.3 per­cent of …

Sen­a­tor Cliff Hite of Find­lay, has announced that the state will invest $150,000 to sup­port indus­trial expan­sion in north­west Ohio. The $150,000 in fund­ing will go to road projects in Hicksville that sup­port the expan­sion of A&P Tool, Inc. The facil­ity, near State Route 49, will add 14,000 square feet …

L.G. Leu, 90 years, of Bryan, passed away Sunday, March 22, 2015, at his residence with his family at his side.  L.G. was born January 16, 1925, in Tedrow, Ohio, the son of the late  Lloyd and Mabel (Bernath) Leu.   An Army veteran, L.G. married Ruth M. Springer on March 22, 1952, …

Keith Clyde Anderson, 75, of Pettisville passed away March 21, 2015 at the University of Toledo Medical Center after a short battle with leukemia. Keith was born in Marion, Ohio on November 9, 1939 to Kenyon and Willelah Anderson. He was a graduate of the University of Toledo and received …

Frank George Koch, 77, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away on March 20, 2015, at Indiana University Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana, after a brief illness. He was a bridge and road construction worker and member of the Ohio Laborer District Council. Frank was a train buff and enjoyed reading and visiting …