Williams County faces a projected $35,000 shortfall in its sewer budget this year. Officials say a 77 percent base fee increase in city of Bryan sewer rates initiated last year is to blame.

A Sherwood man is sentenced to life in prison. Jimmy Pelliccia plead guilty to four counts of rape. Defiance County investigators and the FBI determined Pelliccia had engaged in sexual conduct with two girls, both under the age of 10, between September 2016 and this past January.

A 4-year-old boy is safe after authorities spent hours searching a corn field Friday afternoon. The boy wandered into the field, at a farm on County Road K, southeast of West Unity. Search crews located the boy in the 100 acre plot.

Edwin E. Maugel, age 93, of Farmer, Ohio, died at 10:49 P.M. on Tuesday, September 26, 2017, shortly after admittance to Community Memorial Hospital, Hicksville, Ohio. He was a 1942 graduate of Farmer High School and was a veteran of the United States Navy, serving in World War II. He …

Mary Lou Short, age 82, of Archbold, passed away on Wednesday, September 27, 2017, at Brookdale Bay Pines in St. Petersburg, Florida. Mary Lou was born in Stryker, Ohio on May 18, 1935, the daughter of Ralph and Ester (Lipp) Parker. She married Charles Short, and he preceded her in …

A coroner says her office could not determine what led to the fatal brain damage of a young Ohio man detained in North Korea for more than a year. While the parents of 22-year-old Otto Warmbier and President, Trump have accused the North Korean government of torturing him, doctors say …

Ohioans lost the right to appeal disputed tax decisions directly to the state’s high court, a scarcely debated policy change that critics say will have sweeping consequences for businesses, individuals and governments. The Ohio Supreme Court advocated for and defends the change, arguing it was necessary to lighten its docket …

The Community Humane Shelter of Steuben County invited the community to tour its new facility on Thursday. The shelter held an official ribbon cutting and open hours. The animals were moved there in late August. It is twice the size. Construction on the new facility began last October. The $1.6 …

A cause of an explosion that leveled a rural Defiance County home on Aug. 21 is determined. The blast at 15525 Sponseller Road is thought to be an accidental fire. Officials say the probable cause was a propane leak in the crawlspace. Defiance crews were called to the one-story home …

John Ramsey Thiel, age 83, of Bryan, Ohio, died Sunday, September 24, 2017 at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo. Mr. Thiel was a member of Grace Community Church in Bryan. He had been a First Aid instructor for the American Red Cross, was the Sunday school superintendent at …