The State of Ohio has begun the appeal of a rul­ing against it on early vot­ing. State offi­cials intended to cut evening and week­end hours dur­ing which peo­ple could vote early. But a fed­eral judge blocked them from doing that, sid­ing with civil rights groups who said that dis­crim­i­nates against …

The Bryan police depart­ment asks that you save the date of Fri­day, Octo­ber 10. That’s when they present a pro­gram called Oper­a­tion Street Smart at the New Era Audi­to­rium on West Mul­berry Street in Bryan. They will edu­cate par­ents and teach­ers and social work­ers and any­body with reg­u­lar con­tact with …

William Alford Dillard, age 88, of Delta passed away Thursday September 4, 2014 at Swanton Valley Healthcare. Prior to his retirement he had been employed by the Chessie System Railroad, formerly known as the C&O and CSX Railroad. Mr. Dillard was born on August 6, 1926 in Old Hickory, TN. …

The State High­way Patrol reports Labor Week­end fatal­i­ties were down this past hol­i­day, with arrests for dri­ving impaired and drugs up. Dur­ing the period of August 29 through Sep­tem­ber first, 11 peo­ple died on Oho road­ways, com­pared to 16 the year before. 804 peo­ple were arrested for OVI, up 4.3% …

This week­end is a big push to get cats and kit­tens adopted by the Toledo Area Humane Soci­ety. It is low­er­ing adop­tion fees briefly. Through Sun­day, all felines are half-off and if you adopt two at the same time, you’ll get half off the reduced fee for the sec­ond ani­mal. …

Mei­jer is hir­ing 17-hundred new employ­ees in Ohio. The Defi­ance Mei­jers will have open­ings. The com­pany announced Wednes­day they’ll beef up employee lev­els by nearly ten-thousand nation­wide wide as the com­pany con­tin­ues to expand. The extra staff is also in prepa­ra­tion of the fall and hol­i­day sell­ing sea­sons. Online appli­ca­tions …

The Bowl­ing Green Fal­cons are only one game into the new sea­son and quar­ter­back Matt John­son is out for the year. He injured his hip dur­ing the team’s opener last week against West­ern Ken­tucky. Head coach Dino Babers says there are sur­gi­cal and non-surgical options for John­son, but no deci­sion …

Uni­ver­sity of Toledo is one of four col­leges nation­wide under inves­ti­ga­tion for its han­dling of a sex­ual assault case. The Title Nine and Clery Act com­plaints were filed Wednes­day with the U.S. Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion on behalf of stu­dent vic­tims by a Berkley-based advo­cacy group called End Rape On Cam­pus. …

Roller Coaster afi­ciona­dos are plan­ning their trips to Cedar Point to pay their respects to the Man­tis, who has ful­filled his duty as a world-class thrill ride for 18 years. When it was built in 1996, the Man­tis was billed as the world’s tallest, fastest and steep­est stand-up roller coaster …

The Williams County fair begins tomor­row. It will kick off with a cham­pi­onship rodeo. Other events planned this year include lots of coun­try music, and great entertainment.The fair will run through Sept. 13. Admis­sion to the fair is $5 with chil­dren age 12 and younger admit­ted for free. A weekly …