Accord­ing to an autopsy report, a Defi­ance man, whose body was found in the Auglaize River Mon­day after­noon, died from drown­ing. The call first came in just before 6 Mon­day evening about a body in the water behind River­side Ceme­tery. The sheriff’s office dive team, along with Defi­ance Police recov­ered …

The Gen­eral Motors Foun­da­tion announced that it has donated a total of $25,000 to three non­profit orga­ni­za­tions in the Defi­ance com­mu­nity through the Plant City Grants pro­gram. The orga­ni­za­tions receiv­ing the funds included the Defi­ance Area YMCA, $2,500; Defi­ance Area Foun­da­tion, $10,000; and the United Way of Defi­ance County, $12,500. …

A head-on col­li­sion Tues­day morn­ing on U.S. 6 between Bryan and Edger­ton sent three peo­ple to the hos­pi­tal. It hap­pened yes­ter­day morn­ing just before 7, when the Ohio HIgh­way Patrol says 23 year old Joel Birky of West Unity was dri­ving west on U.S. 6 and 21 year old Alexis …

The U.S. Depart­ment of Labor recently awarded Trade Adjust­ment Assis­tance Com­mu­nity Col­lege and Career Train­ing grants to sixty-six com­mu­nity col­leges across the nation. Five of those grantees are in Ohio, with North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege receiv­ing just under $2.5 mil­lion. NSCC will use the fund­ing to enhance cur­ricu­lum in sev­eral …

The U.S. Depart­ment of Labor has awarded $2,499,588 to North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege to pre­pare unem­ployed Ohioans for advanced man­u­fac­tur­ing careers through online learn­ing tech­nolo­gies. This pro­gram will serve work­ers in Williams, Defi­ance, Ful­ton, Henry, Lucas, Pauld­ing, and Van Wert Coun­ties who are eli­gi­ble for Trade Adjust­ment Assis­tance that helps …

The dead­line to reg­is­ter to vote or to make any address and/or name change for the Novem­ber 4, 2014 Gen­eral Elec­tion is 9:00 p.m., Mon­day, Octo­ber 6. Bal­lots will be avail­able begin­ning Octo­ber 7. The dead­line to request an absen­tee bal­lot by mail is Sat­ur­day, Nov. 1, 2014 at 12:00 …

In Napoleon, the city Fire Chief Robert Ben­nett has been placed on admin­is­tra­tive leave. Ben­nett was place on leave, effec­tive last Fri­day after­noon. Now, Assis­tant Fire Chief Tony Druhot is serv­ing as act­ing chief of the depart­ment. City Offi­cials will not com­ment on the sit­u­a­tion, only say­ing pub­licly that an …

Roof leaks and other issues are pus­ing the Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers to exam­ine the county cour­t­house and get pro­fes­sional rec­om­men­da­tions to fix the prob­lems. Engi­neers spent Mon­day inspect­ing the four-story, 126-year-old cour­t­house in down­town Bryan. The Bryan Times reports that they walked the inte­rior of the build­ing and also used …

The Henry County Sheriff’s Office, along with the Bureau of Crim­i­nal Inves­ti­ga­tion, con­ducted an air sweep for mar­i­juana last Fri­day. A heli­copter was pro­vided by the But­ler County Sheriff’s Office, at no charge to Henry County. The mar­i­juana erad­i­ca­tion cam­paign spot­ted 21 mar­i­juana plants grow­ing in Henry County. Mar­i­juana was …

Doyle C. Miller, age 70, of Edon, Ohio, died at 2:35 A.M. on Saturday, September 27, 2014, in his home, surrounded by family, after an extended illness. Mr. Miller attended North Central High School and was employed by Fifty Plus Five in West Unity, Ohio, for fifteen years until the …