Donald L. Groff, age 85, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 6:55 A.M. on Wednesday, August 23, 2017, at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers in Montpelier, Ohio, after an extended illness. Mr. Groff worked as a construction brick mason for many years and then later at the truss plant in Edgerton …

Wilma Jean Lemons, age 87, passed away peacefully at Fulton Manor in Wauseon on August 24, 2017 after a brief illness with cancer and while in the care of Hospice. Wilma was born February 14, 1930 in Ashland, Ohio to the late Raymond and Frances Hinkle (Frances Hinkle Miller and …

This year’s Defiance Has Talent & Heart fundraiser benefits Fairview High School senior, Erica Reineck, who was severely injured in an automobile accident last summer. The event will once again be held at the Defiance Knights of Columbus.

A grant application for a traffic roundabout on a south side Defiance street received city council’s approval. It allows city administrator, Jeff Leonard to ask the Ohio Public Works Commission for a $325,000 grant to help build it at Palmer Drive and Jefferson Avenue. The cost is $816,800.

A three-year agreement between the Napoleon Area Board of Education and the Napoleon Faculty Association is approved. The board also agreed to salary increases for administrative, confidential and aide staff. The agreement provides raises of 3 percent each year of the contract. It also provides, in the first year, an …

The unemployment rate for Williams County in July was 5.1 percent, an increase from 4.6 in June. The number is also up from 4.7 percent in both July 2015 and July 2016. The rate is the county’s highest since it was 5.1 percent in January and February 2017, before it …

Police in Noble County reveal the identity of a homicide victim. 39-year-old, Suzanne Moore previously lived in the Rome City area but most recently was staying in Fort Wayne. That’s where police served a search warrant and arrested 39-year-old Tracey Martin. Moore’s body was found Sunday along Noble County Road …

A Ypsilanti man has pleads guilty to raping a girl in Bryan. Justinian Williams was arrested on a Bryan Municipal Court warrant in June. In May, the suspect made contact with a juvenile on social media and started a relationship. It escalated from there. Sentencing is set for Sept. 19.

A Toledo teen, who authorities say shot a Fulton County Sheriff’s deputy late last month, is indicted on nine charges, including attempted aggravated murder. Jeshua Gilmore, 18, was looked over by a County grand jury. The murder charge is a felony of the first degree.

A Garrett woman is hospitalized after she veers into the median on I-69 after she dropped her phone. Crews were called to the northbound lanes of I-69, three miles north of Auburn. Upon arrival they found a badly damaged sedan hanging over the cable barrier in the median. Cassondra Jones …