Bond is set at $1 million cash in a Defiance County courtroom for Joshua Meeks, charged with attempted murder. Meeks also receives a court-appointed attorney. The charges stem from an Aug. 16 incident at Meeks’ home, where investigators say he hit his wife, repeatedly, with a wooden club. Meeks is …

A Lucas County man is detained by a Henry County Sheriff’s deputy. Adam Tebbe of Toledo was pulled over on County Road V, east of Ohio 109, near Liberty Center. Tebbe is charged with menacing and more. Tebbe was taken to CCNO. He appeared by video in Napoleon Municipal Court. …

Officials say horses from seven states are banned from participating in a Columbus horse show, to protect livestock from contracting a viral disease. It’s highly contagious…and has been detected in areas of Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Wyoming. The disease primarily affects horses, but can also infect …

Carolyn M. Keasler, 76 years, of Bryan passed away Sunday, September 8, 2019 at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers- Bryan Hospital. Carolyn was born April 23, 1943 in Bowling Green, Ohio the daughter of the late Elsworth D. and Beatrice M. (Youman) Tipton. She married Roland R. Browning and it …

Shaun Fulk, a former Williams County sheriff’s deputy who left the department in December after 16 years, throws his hat into the ring as the first candidate for sheriff to be certified by the county elections board for the March 2020 Republican primary. Current sheriff, Steve Towns is filing his …

A federal judge approves the purging of 235,000 names from Ohio’s voter registration rolls and the Williams County Board of Elections followed suit, moving ahead with its own process. The elimination of 842 names of inactive Williams County voters followed several formal attempts to reach those voters, as mandated by …

There were no OVI arrests made from a checkpoint on North Main Street in Bryan. Officials say roughly 450 vehicles were checked. One arrest for misdemeanor possession of marijuana was made.

Officials tell reporters a woman heading west on Ohio 6 rear ended another vehicle, carrying a woman and a young child. They were taken to Defiance for treatment of minor injuries. The driver of the first car is okay. A citation of failure to maintain proper following distance is pending. …

Garrett Police arrests two juveniles in connection to a shooting that left one man hospitalized last week. We reported a man was shot on East Keyser Street in Garrett. The man, identified later as Thomas Bryant was taken to the hospital in serious condition. After an investigation, officials say leads …

Mary A. Hoover, age 78, of Edgerton, Ohio, passed away at 8:31 P.M. on Saturday, September 7, 2019, at Laurels of DeKalb in Butler, Indiana, with her family at her side, following an extended illness.  Mrs. Hoover worked in health care for many years as a private health care aide …