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Unemployment rates throughout the six-county area rose significantly from December to January, according to statistics from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. Rates throughout the region rose anywhere from 1 to 1.8 percent. Putnam County had the lowest rate at 4.8 percent. Henry County had the highest at …
Read More »Nonprofit organization Teens With Dreams being disbanded after AG investigation
The nonprofit organization Teens With Dreams, which operated in Toledo and Columbus is being disbanded. Founder Darnell Robinson started the organization with the expressed purpose to keep teens busy and off the streets and also to do work free for seniors and help community fundraisers. But investigators from Ohio Attorney …
Read More »The 2017 class of Leadership Williams County selects their group project
The 2017 class of Leadership Williams County has selected their group project: renovating the circa-1850 Quaker Meeting House on County Road 21.N in Brady Township. The Quaker Meeting House was built for $250 by the Borton brothers, who moved to Williams County from New Jersey, and was a well-known Underground …
Read More »Loretta Dee May, 80
Loretta Dee May, age 80, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away early on Monday, March 6, 2017, at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers- Bryan. Loretta was the secretary to the owner of Elder’s Pharmaceuticals in Bryan. She worked there for 48 years prior to her retirement including 6 months during 1982 …
Read More »Billie M. Stewart, 81
Billie M. Stewart, 81 years, of Bryan passed away Sunday, March 5, 2017 in her residence. Billie was born April 4, 1935 in Charlotte, North Carolina, the daughter of the late Glenn E. and Lola (Stuart) Carter. She was a 1953 graduate of New Hanover High School, Wilmington, North Carolina. …
Read More »Trial date reset for man accused in murder of U of T student
Judge Jeffrey Robinson re-set the jury trial for 57 year old James Worley of rural Delta for January 16, 2018. Worley is charged in the abduction and murder of 20 year old Sierah Joughin, a University of Toledo student who disappeared July 19 while riding her bicycle on a rural …
Read More »6-State Trooper Project results in weapons and drug arrests
The Ohio State Highway Patrol joined forces with other members of the 6-State Trooper Project to remove drugs and illegal weapons from our communities. During the initiative from midnight Thursday, March 2 through midnight Saturday, March 4, OSHP made 12 weapon arrests and 217 drug arrests. This high-visibility enforcement effort …
Read More »Two out-of-state men arrested after six-month investigation of marijuana distribution
A six-month investigation of marijuana distribution into northwest Ohio by the Multi-Area Narcotics Task Force (MAN Unit) concluded Monday with the arrest of two men. 33 year old Isidro Tovar of Gibsonton, Fla., and 58 year old Gilbert Garcia of Grand Prairie, Texas, were arrested Monday morning on Hotel Drive …
Read More »Ohio’s lethal injection process under review by a federal appeals court
A federal appeals court is hearing arguments over the constitutionality of Ohio’s lethal injection process as the state tries to start carrying out executions once again. State attorneys say they’ve provided plenty of evidence to show that the contested first drug in Ohio’s three-drug method will put inmates into a …
Read More »Dallas M. Manley, 76
Dallas M. Manley, 76, of Montpelier passed away early Monday morning at Genesis HealthCare Center in Bryan. He was born on April 29, 1940 in Superior Township to Merle L. and Helen (Dean) Manley. Dallas attended Montpelier High School. On July 29, 1960 in Montpelier, he married Kathleen “Tiny” M. …
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