Police offi­cers and deputies are hon­ing their weapons reac­tion skills at the Ohio Peace Offi­cer Train­ing Acad­emy ses­sions set up in the county’s East Annex Build­ing on High Street. Active shooter com­puter sim­u­la­tions are set up in a state pro­gram to test and improve the judge­ment of law enforce­ment offi­cers. …

The Bryan Board of Pub­lic Affairs says it is not inclined to raise cable TV rates for cus­tomers as much as it would have to to con­tinue car­ry­ing Fort Wayne’s NBC amd CBS affil­i­ates and so may drop those chan­nels. Pass­ing on the pro­posed increases for those chan­nels would boost …

Robert V. Whitmer, age 90, of Wauseon, passed away Monday evening, October 20, 2014 at the University of Toledo Medical Center. Arrangements are pending at the Edgar-Grisier Funeral Home.

Gordon L. Bauer, age 73, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 6:50 P.M. on Saturday, October 18, 2014, at Genesis Health Care – Bryan Center. Mr Bauer worked as a Utility worker, Job Setter and later in Maintenance at Champion Molded which became Bryan Custom Plastics and is now JCIM in …

Even though no one in Ohio beside Ambert Vin­son has tested pos­i­tive for the Ebola virus, the Ohio Depart­ment of Health has set up a 24 hour a day Ebola hot­line to answer ques­tions about Ebola. The num­ber is 866–800-1404. Just below Defi­ance the Put­nam County Health Depart­ment has been …

A Lib­erty Cen­ter man work­ing at a con­struc­tion site on the I-475 Bridge over the Maumee River was injured when struck by a hit and run dri­ver. It hap­pened south­bound near mile marker 4. 40 year-old Joshua Ben­son was wear­ing a reflec­tive vest that should have made him vis­i­ble in …

North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege is throw­ing its first everDis­cover NSCC Day in Arch­bold Sat­ur­day Novem­ber first. Vis­i­tors are invited to wan­der the cam­pus and class­rooms as the labs will be open and there will be inter­ac­tive demon­stra­tions in all depart­ments. For more info visit NorthwestState.edu.

Two peo­ple remain hos­pi­tal­ized with life-threatening injuries at a Toledo hos­pi­tal fol­low­ing that hor­rific crash Sun­day night on the Ohio Turn­pike at Swan­ton. Traf­fic headed east were nar­rowed to a sin­gle lane in a con­struc­tion zone, and a semi trac­tor trailer dri­ver did not real­ize traf­fic had slowed ahead, and …

Leona Edwards, age 78, of Delta, passed away Sunday, October 19, 2014 at the University of Toledo Medical Center. Arrangements are pending at the Grisier Funeral Home in Delta.

Desiree Rapp, age 20, passed away Saturday, October 18, 2014 at the Toledo Hospital. Arrangements are pending at the Edgar-Grisier Funeral Home in Wauseon.