John H. “Jack” Goshia, age 86, of Naples, Florida, and a longtime resident of Bryan, Ohio, died at 10:03 A.M. on Wednesday, March 4, 2015, at Avow Hospice in Naples, where he was a patient. Mr. Goshia was a 1947 graduate of Defiance, Ohio, High School and served in the …

The improve­ments at the Defi­ance County cour­t­house will pro­ceed, how­ever they will now be done on a reduced scale, foll­wing a meet­ing that was held this week. The meet­ing of a com­mit­tee resulted in a vote, by a 5 to 2 mar­gin, not to pro­ceed with a full-scale ren­o­va­tion, which …

Well, here’s a sure sign of spring. A sign-up for a gar­den­ing plot in the Defi­ance Com­mu­nity Gar­den will be held on Wednes­day, March 18, at 9 a.m. and again at 7 p.m. that evening, at the county ser­vice garage, right behind the Defi­ance County Build­ing on East Sec­ond Street …

Fire­fight­ers rushed out Thurs­day morn­ing to a fire at the Lib­erty Cen­ter Post Office. The first call came in from a passerby just after 5am yes­ter­day, when that per­son said they saw a glow in the front win­dow of the build­ing on East Street. The fire was found in the …

The dri­ver of a trac­tor trailer is lucky fol­low­ing a crash Wednes­day morn­ing on US-24 west of Defi­ance. The dri­ver, whose name has not been released, was treated at ProMed­ica Defi­ance Regional Hos­pi­tal after his rig left the road­way just after 6am Wednes­day, trav­eled down a steep bank, into a …

The Williams County Sherrifs Dept. arrested 31 year old Brandon GO-BULL of Edgerton Wednesday afternoon on a warrant on a Wms Co.grand jury indictment.Original charges were burglary and aggravated trafficking in drugs. Sheriff’s Department officials have remained rather tight lipped about the arrest, only saying that GoBull is in custody …

Two kittens are alive today thanks to the efforts of a kind-hearted stranger. It was late Tuesday night when someone called 911 to report that someone in a vehicle had just thrown the kittens out the window near County Road J and County Road 16, north of Bryan. The caller …

A Defiance County grand jury has returned indictments against a number of people, some still secret, but a few that we can report on today. 42 year old Brian Ebersole of Bryan, was indicted on one count of burglary; two counts of theft; and one count of theft of drugs. …

A big honor for one area health care center. Mercy Defiance Hospital has been listed as one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals by Truven Health Analytics, a leading provider of data-driven analytics and solutions to improve the cost and quality of health care. Mercy Defiance Hospital is one of …

The name of the victim of a fatal fire in Wauseon on Monday has been released. According to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, 55 year old Joseph Carter, who lived at 10245 County Road 18 in Wauseon, died in the fire that started late Monday night. So far, the exact …