A local man has been arrested in Cal­i­for­nia, and charged with a sex crime. Ricky Rothen­buh­ler, a reg­is­tered sex offender, has been hunted by author­i­ties since last fall when he was indicted in Williams County for the alleged rape of a men­tally hand­i­capped girl, and for fail­ure to notify author­ites …

Bryan City Coun­cil mem­ber Dick Wright announced at last week’s coun­cil meet­ing, that he does not plan to seek reelec­tion. Wright, who was first appointed to coun­cil in May 2000, said he made the announce­ment now, so any­one who may be inter­ested in run­ning for his seat can start doing …

Neil Frank Twining, 85, of Nettle Lake, Ohio and formerly of Sylvania, Ohio, passed away on January 24, 2015 in the lake house he built at Nettle Lake with his loving family by his side. He was born on May 16, 1929 in Toledo, Ohio to Earl and Edith (Ahlfors) …

Charles “Chaddy” W. Lane, Sr., age 70, of Bryan, died Thursday, January 22, 2015 at his home with his family at his side. Charles was a Police Officer with the Allen County (Indiana) Police Department for 30 years. He attained the rank of Sergeant as a road patrol deputy. He …

Lucile M. (Blain) Kosier, 91, passed away on the 25th of January, 2015 at Fulton County Medical Center, Wauseon, Ohio. She was born on 3rd of December, 1923 in Adrian, Michigan to Arthur J. and Mary M. (Bryan) Blain. Lucile (Lucy) grew up in Adrian, Michigan and has lived in …

An arrest in Bryan on a bench war­rant… 32 year old Devall Layvor Jr, of Toledo was picked up by Bryan cops on a bench war­rant out of Lucas County Court of Com­mon Pleas for fail­ing to appear. The orig­i­nal charge was for Child Sup­port. Layvor was taken to CCNO.

A man from Detroit and a woman from Defi­ance were slammed behind bars fol­low­ing a brief pur­suit that hap­pened Thurs­day evening in Defi­ance. It alls started when offi­cers exe­cuted a search war­rant at a Napoleon motel, in which the two were allegedly run­ning a drug busi­ness out of. 26 year …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol is inves­ti­gat­ing a fatal crash involv­ing a vehi­cle and a pedes­trian. It hap­pened Sun­day morn­ing just after 5 in Lucas County. 43 year old Tommy Rogers of Syl­va­nia, was walk­ing on the north side of U.S. 20 when he was struck by a vehi­cle dri­ven …

The name of the show says it all … “Strange Inher­i­tance.“ A new real­ity show is fea­tur­ing an area city. “Strange Inher­i­tance” is the show, and it is now on Fox Busi­ness Net­work. One of the 26 new episodes is about Defi­ance. The new tv series trav­els to small towns …

The new 6th through 12th grade school in Bryan will be a 141,000 square foot facil­ity, that will house Bryan’s mid­dle school and high school stu­dents under one roof. Toledo News Now reports that the new, state of the art facil­ity, will cost $35 mil­lion to build and will be …