A cou­ple of arrests on Fri­day for Bryan Police… 18 year old Jerad Car­roll of Bryan, was arrested for Pos­ses­sion of Drug Para­pher­na­lia. He was released. 18 year old Kyle Finch of Mont­pe­lier, was arrested for Pos­ses­sion of Mar­i­juana and Pos­ses­sion of Drug Para­pher­na­lia. He too was released.

Bruce Lavon Thomas, age 83, of Edon, Ohio, died at 9:30 A.M. on July 23, 2014, at Laurels of DeKalb in Butler, Indiana, after an extended illness. Mr. Thomas worked in management for Kroger for ten years and then was a Regional Sales Manager for Super Value, retiring with thirty-four …

The Fes­ti­val Of Flags cel­e­bra­tion con­tin­ues in Edger­ton this week­end, with a 5K Run/Walk and also Karaoke tonite. Tomor­row, there is a parade sched­uled to kick off at 11am. There will also be kids games, and truck pulls Sat­ur­day night. All the activ­i­ties are sched­uled to take place at Miller …

The Ohio High­way Patrol this morn­ing, is inves­ti­gat­ing a fatal crash where three peo­ple were killed. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, it hap­pened around 4:45 yes­ter­day after­noon on Ohio 109, at the inter­sec­tion of Ful­ton County Road L in Pike Town­ship, when a vehi­cle dri­ven by 28 year old Matthew …

Despite reports to the con­trary, Pauld­ing County wildlife offi­cials on Wednes­day, reported no evi­dence of a large cat in the area. The state wildlife offi­cers who inves­ti­gated the reported sight­ing, says no evi­dence or tracks were found, and there­fore, it’s very dif­fi­cult to deter­mine what, if any­thing, was behind the …

Bryan Police list some recent arrests… 25 year old Nathan Ailiff of Bryan, was arrested for Domes­tic Vio­lence. He was taken to CCNO. 22 year old Ash­ley Jinkens of Bryan, was also arrested for Domes­tic Vio­lence. She too was taken to CCNO. Police say 31 year old Michael Rochester of …

A man sus­pected of a rob­bery in Angola, fled to Michi­gan, where he took a per­son hostage inside an adult nov­elty store near Cold­wa­ter. Law enforce­ment offi­cers say the sus­pect was taken into cus­tody in Michi­gan fol­low­ing a stand­off there at the Lion’s Den Adult Super­store. Nobody was hurt in …

It’s finally offi­cial. After a lot of talk about it, Defi­ance City Coun­cil this week, finally approved a rec­om­men­da­tion to increase util­ity deposits and recon­nect fees on rental prop­er­ties. The move resulted from City offi­cials attempts to get uncol­lected funds for water and sewer ser­vice on rental prop­er­ties. Sev­eral rec­om­men­da­tions …

Mem­bers of Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Center’s Admin­is­tra­tive and Non-Profit Boards heard the yearly audit results at their reg­u­lar meet­ing on Tues­day. Jim Rensi from the Cer­ti­fied Pub­lic Account­ing firm of Lud­er­man and Konst in Defi­ance said, “It’s a clean opin­ion, an unqual­i­fied report.“ In his report, Mr. Rensi noted that the …

Law enforce­ment offi­cers in Williams, Defi­ance and Pauld­ing coun­ties say it was Face­book users that gave them a hand in locat­ing a reg­is­tered sex offender who had ille­gally moved to North­west Ohio. The Williams County Sheriff’s Office along with other area law enforce­ment offi­cers, had been search­ing the area for …