Gov. DeWine has created a task force to study changes to Ohio’s arrest-warrant system. Among several issues before the task force is prioritizing warrants for serious offenders, who pose threats to public safety. DeWine wants recommendations by June or earlier. Several newspaper reports uncovered numerous flaws in Ohio’s and the …

Marvin L. Hunter, 80 years, of Bryan, passed away Thursday, February 14, 2019 at Community Health and Wellness Centers Emergency Room, Bryan.  Marvin was born July 4, 1938, in Bryan, Ohio, the son of the late Glen LeRoy and Leva Alice (Hubbell) Hunter.  He married Winifred Eileen Miller on February …

No one is hurt after a Norfolk Southern smashes into a car in Stryker. Officials say the woman in the car did not clear enough ice off of her windshield to see as she tried to negotiate the weather on Defiance Street. They say she saw the railroad crossing gates …

A passerby sees a man walking in the weather on Ohio 15 and calls officers, thinking the man on foot could use some help. Officers arrive…Joshua Burgess sees them and runs away. He didn’t get far in the snow. Burgess has warrants for failing to appear to a Fulton County …

A man is wounded accidentally in a gun related incident northeast of Edgerton. The victim was flown to an area hospital. They say he is in stable condition for injuries to his hands and left leg. The investigation continues in the County Road 6 shooting.

A Bryan Elementary School employee is named the Ohio School Social Work Association’s 2019 School Social Worker of the Year. We have reported on Sarah Vashaw before. She is known for her work with children and families, and in part for the foundation she helped create which made social worker …

A purse, with items from the 1950’s is returned to its now 82-year-old owner after workers find it while demolishing part of an Indiana high school. Martha Everett lost the black stitched purse at the old Jeffersonville High School, where she was a senior back in 1955…its contents?…a wallet, a …

Roland Aragon Amaral Vasconcellos, 79, Naples, Florida formerly of Bryan passed away on February 12, 2019 at Physicians Regional Hospital, Naples, Fl. Born to Joseph B. Vasconcelos and Bertha (Amaral) Vasconcelos, April 19th, 1939 in Taunton, MA. He was raised on the island of San Miguel in the Azores Islands, …

Marion “Bud” Emmett Heller, age 86, of Camden, Michigan, died on Tuesday, February 12, 2019, at his home. Bud was a graduate of Camden Frontier High School class of 1951 and was a US Army veteran of the Korean War. He was a heavy equipment operator for Winzeler Construction for …

Isidra “Sheila” Garcia, age 74, passed away on Tuesday, February 12, 2019, at Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice. She was born on May 5, 1944, the daughter of Gabino Davila and Dorotea Gonzales, in Knippa, Texas. She had worked at the Dana Corporation until it’s closing in 2011. Sheila courageously fought …