Bryan Police have been kept quite busy the past sev­eral days. On Wednes­day night, 20 year old Eric D. Kendall of 206 Glen Arbor Drive, Bryan, was arrested for OVI. He was released. Also on Wednes­day evening, 23 year old Cora R. Gonyea of 209 E. Perry St in Bryan, …

A man has used a shop­ping cart sev­eral times over the past cou­ple weeks to break through the front door of an Angola store early in the morn­ing. Both times, the Angola Police Depart­ment says, he took beer. The beer bur­glar in sur­veil­lance video footage appears to be white and …

Indi­ana State Police said Thurs­day that a man was arrested Wednes­day night after resist­ing police and throw­ing a one-pot meth lab. 39 year old Larry W. Wise­man was being held in the Steuben County Jail on pre­lim­i­nary charges of man­u­fac­tur­ing metham­phet­a­mine and resist­ing law enforce­ment. Police were mak­ing a traf­fic …

Appar­ently, the peo­ple of Ohio are not prone to restrain their lan­guage. The Seattle-based Marchex Insti­tute, in a recent study, found that Buck­eye State res­i­dents by and large, can swear along with the best sailors. The insti­tute stud­ied more than 600,000 phone calls placed in the last year from con­sumers …

James B. “Jim” Borton, 95, of Wauseon, died Wednesday morning in Fulton Manor, Wauseon, Ohio. Son of the late James Leo and Margaret (Boyes) Borton, Jim was born August 20, 1917 in Chesterfield Township, Fulton County, Ohio on the family farm where he lived his entire life. He was a …

A man has been arrested after mak­ing threats in Henry County. The Bryan Times reports that 37 year old Valentino Garza of Defi­ance was arrested Tues­day evening at Alex Prod­ucts when he reported for work there. Garza is accused of threat­en­ing the busi­ness in online com­ments on Face­book after the …

The Williams County Board of Health on Tues­day, denied a vari­ance request. Cory Not­man had been granted a vari­ance in 2009, allow­ing him to hook up a mobile home to the sewer on his prop­erty in Kun­kle while he was ren­o­vat­ing the house to live in. Now, accord­ing to The …

Defi­ance City Coun­cil sealed the deal on an annex­a­tion near U.S. 24 and Car­pen­ter Road on Tues­day night by approv­ing an ordi­nance accept­ing the annex­a­tion on Com­merce Drive. It brings about 46 acres of Rich­land Town­ship into the city next to Johns Manville’s Car­pen­ter Road plant and just south of …

The Amer­i­can Red Cross of Defi­ance is hold­ing a blood drive today from 2–7 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in the fel­low­ship hall at 400 Wayne Avenue in Defi­ance. All donors today will receive a cooler tote bag. To save time and sched­ule an appoint­ment, call 800–733-2767.

No one was injured, but some vehi­cles and a garage were destroyed by flames Tues­day in Defi­ance. Fire­fight­ers were called to 700 Perry St. at about 6:25 p.m. When crews arrived, the garage and a truck were heav­ily involved. Two vehi­cles were destroyed by the fire, one inside the garage …