D. Wilbur Miller, age 68, of rural Bryan, Ohio, died at 9:50 P.M. on Friday, February 13, 2015, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice near Defiance, Ohio, where he was a patient, after an extended illness. Mr. Miller was an independent truck driver, operating D.W. Miller Trucking for more than …

Ashley Ann McCrea, age 32, of Antwerp, Ohio, passed away unexpectedly at 6:54 A.M. on Thursday, February 12, 2015, shortly after admittance to Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers in Bryan, Ohio. A 2001 graduate of Edon Northwest High School, she was currently employed by Campbell’s Soup in Napoleon, Ohio. Ashley’s …

Flames broke out over the week­end in an Angola garage that was attached to a home on West Loon Lake Road. It hap­pened Sat­ur­day after­noon. For­tu­nately, the door between the breeze­way of the home and the garage was closed, which fire­fight­ers say pre­vented the flames from spread­ing into the house, …

Bryan Police, early Sun­day morn­ing, arrested 35 year old Erik Flinn of South Williams Street on a bench war­rant out of Williams County Court for fail­ing to appear. He was locked up in CCNO. Last evening, Bryan Police nabbed Troy York of Toledo, on a bench war­rant out of Bryan …

The win­ter weather has left one per­son dead fol­low­ing a crash in our area. Blow­ing and drift­ing snow Sat­ur­day morn­ing resulted in a chain-reaction crash on Ohio 576, between County Road H and County Road I. Then, about an hour later, just before 11:30 Sat­ur­day morn­ing, a crash on the …

An eight-member jury in Defi­ance County on Fri­day, fol­low­ing a three day trial, decided that the sur­viv­ing spouse of a for­mer employee at Defiance’s Gen­eral Motors plant is enti­tled to ben­e­fits through the state’s work­ers com­pen­sa­tion pro­gram. In the suit, which was filed back in 2009 by Loretta Bryant of …

Sherwin William Pike, age 60, of Hicksville and formerly of Toledo, Ohio and the Lark Lane Center in Toledo passed away late Wednesday February 11, 2015 at Parkview Regional Hospital in Fort Wayne. He had work with the Quadco Rehabilitation Center in Stryker. Mr. Pike was born on January 24, …

Travis John Coll, age 21, of Wauseon, passed away unexpectedly at the Fulton county Health Center in Wauseon. Visitation for Travis will be held from 2:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.m. on Monday, February 16, 2015 at Crossroads Evangelical Church in Wauseon, where a Celebration of Travis’ Life will be held …

A Bryan busi­ness owner says he’s afraid of get­ting a bad rap for the actions of oth­ers that he had no con­trol over. Patrick Pesse­fall took the old “M.O.D.E.L. Com­mu­nity School for Stu­dents with Autism” sign off his store front Thurs­day morn­ing. The Bryan Times reports that Pesse­fall owns the …

A jury trial that began Wednes­day in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court, is expected to con­tinue today. It con­cerns a woman’s claim that asbestos expo­sure at Defiance’s Gen­eral Motors plant caused the death of her hus­band, who worked there. Loretta Bryant of Defi­ance, filed the law­suit in 2009, after the …