June G. Geesey, 90 years, of Bryan, passed away Wednesday, December 31, 2014 at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers, Bryan.  June was born May 30, 1924 in Sherwood, Ohio, the daughter of the late Charles and Lula (Sanders) Partee.  She married Warren Mills, and he was killed in action during World War …

When bad weather blows in to north­west Ohio, local law enforce­ment agen­cies want you to know about it. Now, as tech­nol­ogy changes, more gov­ern­ments and munic­i­pal­i­ties are using alert noti­fi­ca­tion sys­tems to send texts directly to mobile phones. Cur­rently, the Defi­ance County Sheriff’s Office uses a sys­tem like that to …

Watch out for the lat­est com­puter scam mak­ing the rounds. Police say it works like this… The vic­tim receives a phone call say­ing their home com­puter has a virus. They are then told it can be taken care of for just $2,090. If the vic­tim agrees, the crook or crooks …

A fam­ily of eight lost their home in a week­end fire near Scott. The home belong­ing to the Rich Strunk­en­burg fam­ily in Pauld­ing County caught on fire Sun­day after­noon around 5. Now, the Cres­cent News reports that a spe­cial fund has been set up to help the fam­ily at the …

With the hol­i­day sea­son halfway over, the Ohio High­way Patrol is ask­ing dri­vers to con­tinue to buckle up and refrain from dri­ving impaired. Dur­ing this year’s five-day Christ­mas Hol­i­day report­ing period of Decem­ber 24 at 12 a.m. through Decem­ber 28 at 11:59 p.m., 10 peo­ple were killed in 10 fatal …

Two peo­ple from Bryan have been charged fol­low­ing a dog attack ear­lier this month that ended when Bryan Police shot and killed one of the dogs. Offi­cers were called out on a report of two unli­censed pit bulls run­ning loose in the area of the Amer­i­can Legion Post 284 and …

The Asso­ci­ated Press this morn­ing is report­ing that a man and his wife have pleaded guilty in the death of a Michi­gan man whose body was found in an empty grain stor­age barn in Put­nam County ear­lier this month. Robert Strauss of Toledo pleaded guilty to mur­der on Mon­day and …

A flatbed trac­tor trailer from Michi­gan went out of con­trol and then crashed in a field north of Defi­ance on Mon­day morn­ing. The Ohio High­way Patrol says it hap­pened just before 8 yes­ter­day morn­ing at the Ohio 15/18 split. The semi was south­bound on Ohio 15 when the dri­ver missed …

Some inter­est­ing news from the local police blot­ter today… Bryan Police report that early Fri­day morn­ing, a North Wal­nut Street res­i­dent of Bryan reported her vehi­cle was stolen by some­one she knew. Police located the vehi­cle and dri­ver who was in the process of return­ing the vehi­cle. The woman who …

Peggy A. Siler, age 61, of Wauseon, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday morning, December 28, 2014, in her home. Peggy was born in Swanton on March 24, 1953, the daughter of Robert and Edna (Brown) Ackerman. On October 24, 1972 she married Richard Siler, and he survives. Also surviving are …