The driver of a pickup truck crosses the center line on a DeKalb County 19, smashing into an oncoming vehicle, head on. Officers tell reporters Laik Minnick of Butler was the driver of that first car. Leonard Baughman of Waterloo was in the other vehicle. Minnick’s car was sent into …

A mobile home is uninhabitable now in Monroeville after firefighters put out a blaze at an Alleger Road address. A dog died in the fire…no one was home at the time. Investigators determine the blaze started in the kitchen area. The fire was kept to the front portion of the …

Officials at the lockup in Stryker say one inmate there has tuberculosis. That person was taken to a Toledo hospital for treatment. TB, long considered to be a disease of the 1920’s, is a contagious, bacterial lung infection spread when victims cough or sneeze. Staff and inmates alike are being …

Vasquez Avoids More Jail Time

A 6.2 mill substitute levy for North Central Schools is one of seven local levies approved for the upcoming general election ballot by Williams County elections officials. A vote for Millcreek Township’s five-year, 2-mill replacement levy for fire protection is on the ballot as well.

Don C. Patten, age 82, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 3:00 A.M. on Sunday, August 19, 2018, at Genesis HealthCare-Bryan Center after a brief illness. Mr. Patten was a 1955 graduate of Stryker High School and a veteran of the United States Army. He was employed by The Aro Corporation …

Earl L. Bechtol, age 83, of Montpelier, Ohio, died at 1:48 A.M. on Sunday, August 19, 2018, at the Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice Center near Defiance. Mr. Bechtol worked at several area factories, including Spangler Candy Company, Hayes-Albion and Trim Trends. He was a member of the Ohio Army …

Calvin W. Myers, 81 years, of Sherwood, passed away Saturday, August 18, 2018 at Genesis HealthCare-Twin Rivers in Defiance with his family at his side. Calvin was born May 17, 1937 in Butler, Indiana, the son of the late Walter L. and Helen Louise (Cramer) Myers. He was a 1955 …

Police in DeKalb County are looking for the person who wrecked a pickup truck on State Road 8 at the County Road 71 intersection. Officers found the vehicle, no driver in sight after it had spun off the roadway, smashing into a utility pole, and ending up on its top. …

Two people are hurt after a pickup truck flips on County Road 19 in DeKalb County. Alfred Treesh of Auburn was apparently speeding when he hit the brakes to try and slow down over a hill…they locked…the truck then careens off the road, hitting a mailbox and a phone box …