The Ohio State High­way Patrol is remind­ing dri­vers this Memo­r­ial Day to not get behind the wheel impaired. Troop­ers and local law enforce­ment will be join­ing forces in an effort to keep Ohio roads fatal­ity free this hol­i­day. Troop­ers made 705 OVI arrests dur­ing the 2013 Memo­r­ial Day hol­i­day. Dur­ing …

The price of gaso­line this Memo­r­ial Day is about where it has been for the past two or three Memo­r­ial Days. Nation­ally, the aver­age is right around $3.64 per gal­lon. In Bryan, we’re pay­ing on aver­age, a lit­tle more than that this Memo­r­ial Day, with prices at the pump at …

The Mov­ing Wall-Vietnam Vet­er­ans Memo­r­ial is headed to Defi­ance. The wall will be escorted into town on the morn­ing of June 12th by a pro­ces­sion of motor­cy­cles. Right now, plans call for a large U.S. flag to be draped across the street just north of the cour­t­house between aer­ial trucks …

Memo­r­ial Day is a time to remind our­selves of the mean­ing of sac­ri­fice. Across the nation, cit­i­zens were mark­ing Memo­r­ial Day with somber cer­e­monies, flag plant­i­ngs at ceme­ter­ies, parades and even bar­be­cues. Pres­i­dent Obama arrived in Afghanistan to speak with troops and visit sol­diers being treated at a base hos­pi­tal. …

Brian W. Bleikamp, 50 years, of Alvordton, passed away Thursday, May 22, 2014 in his residence.  Brian was born September 19, 1963 in Montpelier to John and Martha (Setzler) Bleikamp.  He was a 1981 graduate of Four County Vocational School, where he studied Diesel Mechanics.  He was a machine operator for TRW in …

Indi­ana State Police say they will be con­duct­ing a sobri­ety check­point in DeKalb County tonight. In an effort to reduce the num­ber of alcohol-related auto­mo­bile crashes, the sobri­ety check­point will tar­get the impaired dri­ver and will be uti­lized in an area iden­ti­fied as hav­ing a high num­ber of alco­hol related …

The Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio received the high­est rec­om­men­da­tions for accred­i­ta­tion by audi­tors of the Amer­i­can Cor­rec­tion Asso­ci­a­tion on Wednes­day fol­low­ing a recent three-day intense audit. CCNO Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Jim Den­nis said CCNO staff had been plan­ning for the audit for the past three years. Dur­ing the three-day event, …

The Defi­ance County fair board has reversed an ear­lier deci­sion, and has now decided to once again allow peo­ple to con­tinue rent­ing horse stalls at the fair­grounds. Last month, the board said it was going to stop rent­ing stalls and close the track for part of the spring and sum­mer, …

Fig­ures just released by the Ohio Depart­ment of Job and Fam­ily Ser­vices show the unem­ploy­ment rate in north­west Ohio drop­ping from March to April. The fig­ures released this week show north­west Ohio’s not sea­son­ally adjusted unem­ploy­ment rates were all below 6 per­cent last month, with just two coun­ties, Ful­ton and …

We told you recently about the memo­r­ial rock that was removed from in front of a Pauld­ing school after alle­ga­tions that the per­son it hon­ored, the late Don Schnepp, was accused of sex­u­ally abus­ing some stu­dents years ago. On Tues­day evening, David Kinkade of Defi­ance appeared before the Pauld­ing Exempted …