Roger L. Kime, age 66, of Bryan, died on Monday, January 27, 2014, at Community Health and Wellness Centers-Bryan shortly after admittance. Roger had been a machinist at The Aro Corporation, retiring after 35 years of service. After his retirement he worked for a time at Precision Metal in Defiance …

Defi­ance Police are call­ing it a case of shaken baby syn­drome. Now, a Defi­ance man is behind bars, and police say he’s respon­si­ble for the death of a five month old girl. 29 year old James Cooper has been charged with first degree felony mur­der. Cooper is being held at …

Mont­pe­lier Vil­lage Coun­cil met on Mon­day and inter­viewed two appli­cants for a vacant coun­cil seat. Fol­low­ing those inter­views, Dan Willis, who has served on the vil­lage coun­cil in the past, was appointed and sworn in. Mont­pe­lier Coun­cil then moved on to other items of busi­ness Mon­day night. Kurt Roan was …

Details will be unveiled on Thurs­day evening involv­ing the Ohio Depart­ment of Transportation’s plans for rebuild­ing I-75’s U.S. 224 inter­change in Find­lay. Miller Broth­ers Con­struc­tion of Arch­bold is sched­uled to start work next month on the $10.6 mil­lion state con­tract. The 6 p.m. pub­lic meet­ing tomor­row will be held in …

Henry County Com­mis­sion­ers say they may be closer to a res­o­lu­tion involv­ing a good chunk of change that is owed to the county. Com­mis­sion­ers signed a pay-back agree­ment with Peter Colaraffi of Revenge Designs, to set­tle a loan of just over $300,000 that was tied to a project that never …

Don’t try this at home… Author­i­ties say an Indi­ana man set his house on fire… while using a blow torch to remove spi­der webs. Fire­fight­ers were called out for a fire reported to be in the walls of a home in rural DeKalb County. The home­owner told fire crew mem­bers …

A five year old child is dead and now, a Defi­ance man has been arrested and charged with mur­der. Defi­ance Police were called to Cor­win Street in Defi­ance just after 7 Fri­day night on a report of a child not breath­ing. The five-month-old baby was taken to Defi­ance Regional Med­ical …

A court date has finally been set in a fraud case involv­ing some area res­i­dents. The Bryan Times is report­ing that the case against David and Nancy Jo Frazer of Bryan and Albert Rose­brock of Sher­wood will be headed to trial in Sep­tem­ber. Last sum­mer the Ohio Attor­ney General’s office …

The deep freeze is back, and fore­cast­ers now say it’s going to stick around for a few days. A giant arc­tic air mass has descended from Canada, and accord­ing to the National Weather Ser­vice, the wind chill will go to 40 below zero in our area by Wednes­day. If we …

Sev­eral area fire depart­ments yes­ter­day morn­ing bat­tled a house fire on Pauld­ing County Road 209. The fire was reported around 9 Mon­day morning.