The Williams County Board of Developmental Disabilities has new leadership. Amy Rohdy is hired as the new executive director of the Northwest Ohio Waiver Administration Council. Rohdy takes her new position on Dec. 1. She currently serves as the business manager for NOWAC, which serves Williams, Defiance and Van Wert …

At a rally in Indiana, former President, Barack Obama praised Indiana Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly on Sunday for being willing to break with his party. Donnelly angered some Democrats by tacking to the right in recent weeks and embracing some of Trump’s pet priorities, such as building a border wall …

Opioids and tobacco claimed the lives of 14,200 Indiana residents last year, costing the state $12.6 billion in health care expenses, lost productivity and other economic damages, two new reports say. The studies released last week by the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation recommends Indiana raise the state’s cigarette tax by …

Floyd Elwyn Puffenberger, 85 years, of Bryan, passed away Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at Genesis HealthCare-Bryan Center, with his family at his side. Floyd was born March 11, 1933 in Bryan, the son of the late Floyd Eldridge and Gertrude (Hoover) Puffenberger. He was a 1951 graduate of Bryan High …

It’s time for the Winefest over in Holiday City. It’s a chance to sample some of the finest wine Ohio has to offer. It’s coming up on Saturday at the Quality Inn and Suites. Great wineries of the Buckeye State that have previously been featured include Majestic Oak Winery, Stoney …

Now these are outstanding numbers. The unemployment rate in Fulton County drops to under 4 percent in September, that’s according to data recently released by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The rate fell to 3.5 percent in the county from 4.2 percent in August. Last September, the …

A motorist, whose pickup truck struck four children crossing a northern Indiana highway, killing three, told authorities she didn’t realize a school bus headed in the opposite direction was stopped in front of her. Alyssa Shepherd of Rochester told an Indiana State Police detective she saw something with lights in …

Montpelier officials have declared what is called an overflow event. Apparently there is a good chance untreated human sewage has been allowed to get into the St. Joe River. What they are saying is the flow may be submerged and the fear is bacteria, described as harmful could be mixing …

The President comes to the area…Memorial Coliseum officials in Ft. Wayne have issued a Traffic and Event Advisory, ahead of President, Trump’s scheduled rally there on Monday. The President goes on the stump for GOP Senate candidate, Mike Braun at 6:30 at the Coliseum. Doors for the event open at …

An accusation…made 21 years after the fact. Officials say a woman called the Williams County Sheriff’s Office to report she was assaulted by a supervisor at the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio, back in 1997. Officials confirm after an investigation that she was talking about Jeffrey Corbett, the supervisor of …