Florence M. Riggs, age 100, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away on Thursday, October 27, 2016, at the Inn at Fountain Park in Bryan. She was a longtime resident of Northwest Township and Edon, Ohio. Florence was born on July 3, 1916, in Richland Township, Henry County, Ohio, the daughter of …

There will be a new flag on top of the Williams County Courthouse. Appropriately, the flag will be unfurled and raised for the first time during a brief ceremony on Veterans Day, scheduled at the courthouse at 8:30 a.m. on, Nov. 11. According to county commissioner Lew Hilkert, the Bryan …

A Defiance County man convicted last month in a double homicide case in Paulding County said he plans to appeal his case. 43 year old Bradley Gillespie of Ashpacher Road, Defiance, was found guilty of two counts of murder, each with a gun specification on Sept. 30, in Paulding County …

The Village of Edon is well on its way to obtaining most of the funding it needs to build a new $1 million water treatment plant. The Bryan Times reports no objections were heard in county commissioners’ chambers Thursday during a mandatory second public hearing on a $483,080 Community Development …

The battle over who pays for which inmates at the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio is over with the City of Toledo gone from the partnership, but employees who pitched in to get the jail through its financial crisis will receive a $1,000 bonus. Last week, Henry County Commissioner Robert …

Saturday’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day pulled 28,263 pounds of unneeded, unwanted and expired medications off the street and out of Americans’ medicine cabinets. Locally, the Williams County Sheriff’s Office collected 127 pounds and the Multi-Area Narcotics Task Force collected 593 pounds from all six of its covered counties. The …

A Defiance woman is facing at least two charges following multiple crashes on Oct. 17. The incident ended with her vehicle crashing into Defiance’s Citizens National Bank on E. Second St. 31 year old Jessica Davilla of Sherwood Drive, appeared Wednesday morning in Defiance Municipal Court on charges of failure …

Two people were injured Wednesday in a two-vehicle crash in Fulton County. According to the Ohio Highway Patrol, the crash occurred around 10:25 a.m., at Ohio 108 and Fulton County Road C in Clinton Township. An eastbound vehicle driven by 42 year old Christina Holland of Archbold, failed to stop …

Leo R. Sanders, age 60, of Wauseon, passed away on Wednesday, October 26, 2016, at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo. He was a supervisor at Frozen Specialties in Archbold. Leo was born in Bryan, Ohio on March 19, 1956, the son of Wayne and Mary (Carteyn) Sanders. In …

Mary Rita Pingaj, age 95, of Lombard, IL, died Tuesday, October 25, 2016 in Beacon Hill Hospice, Lombard, IL. She was born July 22, 1921 in Cleveland, Ohio to the late Francis and Marie (Kane) McTighe. She married Walter Pingaj on October 9, 1943, in Cleveland and he preceded her …