Peggy Ann Acosta, age 47, of Defiance, went home with the Lord on June 10, 2014 at St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, after a four-year battle of liver disease. Peggy had been an employee of Silgan Can Company before her accident. Peggy was born on July 11, 1966 to …

Frances M. (Ames) Nyari, age 98, of Edgerton, Ohio, and formerly of Bryan, Ohio, died at 3:20 A.M. on Saturday, June 21, 2014, at Evergreen Manor Nursing Home in Montpelier, Ohio, after an extended illness. Mrs. Nyari attended Bryan High School and was co-owner with her husband of Nyari Trucking, …

Accord­ing to pub­lished reports, the Relay for Life held this week­end at Hicksville Exempted Vil­lage Schools was a big suc­cess. The Cres­cent News reports that while the goal this year was $32,000, the started the relay off with $20,000 already com­mit­ted. In the end, offi­cials were proud to announce that …

Accord­ing to sta­tis­tics released last week by the State Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion, almost 90 per­cent of third-graders in Ohio have earned high enough scores on school read­ing assess­ments to advance to the fourth grade. A total of 105,681 pub­lic school stu­dents out of 119,393 total statewide and 5,878 char­ter stu­dents …

In Adrian, a man who escaped from the County lock-up has turned him­self in. Lenawee County offi­cials say Scott Hen­ning, who escaped 10 days ago when the lock on his cell mal­func­tioned, turned him­self in Fri­day morn­ing after hav­ing been on the run for more than a week. Hen­ning was …

On Sun­day morn­ing, Bryan Police arrested 29 year old Daniel Vela of Pio­neer on a war­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court for fail­ure to pay fines. Vela wasn’t dif­fi­cult to locate. He was already behind bars at CCNO on a charge of fail­ing to rein­state his license and speed. He …

Lelah M. Knecht, 94 years, of San Antonio, Texas, and formerly of Bryan, Ohio and Munising, Michigan, passed away Monday, June 16, 2014 at Autumn Winds Retirement Lodge, Schertz, Texas.  Lelah was born September 6, 1919, in Williams County, Ohio, the daughter of the late John C. and Rosa (Walters) Knisely.  She …

Morris “Mose” Frappier, age 85, son of Edward L. and Blanche Frappier died on Tuesday, June 17, 2014, at the Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice facility. Morris “Mose” Frappier was born on August 25, 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a loving husband and father. Mose was a machinist at …

The Williams County Grand Jury has handed down a total of 39 indict­ments related to felony drug charges includ­ing indict­ments for pos­ses­sion of metham­phet­a­mine, heroin, cocaine, methadone, and oxy­codone. Indict­ments have also been handed down for traf­fick­ing and pos­ses­sion of syn­thetic mar­i­juana, traf­fick­ing in mar­i­juana, and in oxy­codone, along with …

A Mont­pe­lier man has been indicted on 10 crim­i­nal counts of child sex­ual abuse. 30 year old Randy Kirk­endall is charged with com­mit­ting the crimes against a 6 year old girl between last July and up until ear­lier this month. Among the charges against him, inves­ti­ga­tors say Kirk­endall pho­tographed the …