Attor­ney Gen­eral Mike DeWine is offer­ing char­i­ta­ble giv­ing tips for those who plan to donate to this hol­i­day sea­son. DeWine encour­ages Ohioans to deter­mine in advance which char­ity or char­i­ties to sup­port. He says most char­i­ta­ble orga­ni­za­tions that oper­ate in Ohio or here for dona­tions must file with the Ohio …

The Pauld­ing County Sher­iff is inves­ti­gat­ing an acci­den­tal shoot­ing that report­edly hap­pened on Sun­day. It all began when Sheryl Wag­ner called 911 to report that her daugh­ter had been acci­dently shot in the leg with a .22 rif­fle at the family’s home in Brown Town­ship. Accord­ing to deputies, a 15-year-old …

The Hicksville Vil­lage Play­ers will present Charles Dick­ens’ immor­tal “A Christ­mas Carol” this week­end at the Huber Opera House. The show will fea­ture many clas­sic songs of the hol­i­day sea­son too, so you won’t want to miss this one. Show­times are 7:30 p.m. this com­ing Fri­day and Sat­ur­day, Dec. 12–13 …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office is report­ing that an armed rob­bery occurred at the Hol­i­day City Stop and Go/Sunoco sta­tion on Ohio 15 in Hol­i­day City on Sun­day evening. Accord­ing to the report, it hap­pened last night just before 9:30 when an armed man entered the store and demanded cash …

A cou­ple of arrests over the week­end kept Bryan Police busy… ON Sun­day, police took 28 year old Mark Shad­bolt of North Main Street in Bryan into cus­tody. Shad­bolt was arrested on a bench war­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court for fail­ing to appear on a charge of Fail­ing to …

The North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Board of Trustees held a board retreat and reg­u­lar meet­ing on Fri­day. Dur­ing the meet­ing, Dr. Michael Wolfe, dean of busi­ness at NSCC, gave a pre­sen­ta­tion on the newly formed Dean’s Lead­er­ship Clus­ter. In other action, the board Approved the res­ig­na­tion of Erika Rufe­nacht and …

Dorothy M. Burns, 68 years of Bryan, passed away Thursday, December 4, 2014 at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice, Defiance.  Dorothy was born April 11, 1946, in Bryan, Ohio, the daughter of the late Denton and Eleanore (Shadel) Kuhn.  Dorothy married William W. Burns on July 8, 1976 in Melvindale, Michigan, and …

A Fre­mont man has been arrested in DeKalb County on charges of child molest­ing. Accord­ing to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office, 33 year old Michael Clifton was cuffed at his place of work after charges were filed against him fol­low­ing a long inves­ti­ga­tion into accu­sa­tions that he allegedly molested a …

Sev­eral fam­i­lies are now start­ing all over after flames destroyed every­thing they owned this week near Grover Hill. Tina How­ell lived at the home on Road 155, where she said her fam­ily has been for 82 years. Her fam­ily lost every­thing in the blaze on Mon­day. How­ell, her sons, her …

In Steuben County, three spe­cial excep­tion requests that would cover new 190 foot tall tow­ers cleared the County Plan Com­mis­sion on Wednes­day. By a unan­i­mous 5 to 0 vote, the Plan Com­mis­sion approved all three requests, say­ing they would not affect the county’s mas­ter plan. Brian Don­nelly from Cen­tral States …