Chris Chapa will be sworn in as City Bryan’s police chief after city council approved his hire by a 3-2 vote. Chapa has served as interim chief since Michael Willis retired in August. He started with the police department in July 2001. Officials say the city received 11 applications and …

A West Unity area native and former Bryan and West Unity police officer remains in critical condition after he is injured in a shootout in Ozark, Alabama. Samuel Yoh, a Bryan police officer of 16 years, was shot several times responding to an incident involving a suicidal man. Officials tell …

New jobs in the area. Pioneer will soon be home to Toledo Tool and Die…bringing with it, around 60 new positions. The Toledo manufacturer specializes in metal stamping. They work with tool designing, in-house builds and high-volume mass production of stamping assemblies and other machines. The company took over the …

Williams County elections officials complete an audit of results of the Nov. 6 general election…no errors or inconsistencies were found. Post-election audits are normally required to be conducted following each general election in an even-numbered year and after each presidential primary election. This time around, after new voting equipment was …

Barbara Joyce Nofziger, 87 years, of Bryan, passed away Monday, December 16, 2019, at Hillside Country Living, where she was a resident.  Barbara was born March 18, 1932, in Montpelier, Ohio, the daughter of the late Negley and Agnes (Oberlin) Stockman.  She was a 1949 graduate of Bryan High School.  …

James “Jim” A. Roth, 50, of Pioneer, passed away on December 15, 2019 at Promedica Ebeid Hospice in Sylvania. He was born on June 14, 1969 in Morenci, MI to Daryl and Elaine (Meyers) Roth. Jim graduated from Waldron High School in 1987. On October 12, 2019 he married Michelle …

Diana L. (Kuhn) Gigax, 65, of Camden, MI passed away at her home on December 12, 2019. She was born on November 24, 1954 in Paulding to Knight and Sharon (Whitney) Kuhn. She attended First Church of Amboy, where she enjoyed bible study. Diana was a loving wife, mother and …

Area officials are investigating the death of a man found in his tractor-trailer at an Ohio Turnpike plaza in Williams County. Troopers responded to a welfare check at the Indian Meadow Service Plaza, on County Road M.50, in West Unity. The driver, identified as David Day, of New Plymouth, Idaho, …

A DeKalb County man dies cutting down a tree. Units responded to a Block County Road 40 location. Officials say the tree had fallen on Layton Casselman. Efforts to revive Casselman efforts were unsuccessful. He died at the scene.

A DeKalb Eastern Bus was at a stop, picking up children en route to school in the Eastside Community Schools District, when two vehicles rear ended the back of the bus. They say an SUV, speeding, ran into the back of sedan…then pushed it into the back of the bus. …