A fatal crash on U.S. 24 had high­way traf­fic closed for three hours yes­ter­day and a local man lost his life. Troop­ers with the Ohio High­way Patrol say 63-year-old Joe Sali­nas of Leip­sic went the wrong way on 24 and hit a semi head on just before 3 p.m. Sali­nas …

OSHA has cited Bryan Pack­ag­ing for ten seri­ous vio­la­tions of worker safety. The E. Perry St. com­pany was fined $25,200 after an inspec­tion of their Bryan oper­a­tion. The fines were mainly safety vio­la­tions that could result in worker injury, such as “lockout/tagout” vio­la­tions. The com­pany is part of Pro-Pak Indus­tries …

Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers are con­sid­er­ing hir­ing an IT pro­fes­sional to help man­age the county’s data. At the meet­ing on Tues­day, the county recorder told the com­mis­sion that they are run­ning out of stor­age space on the servers and a short term fix is to delete dupli­cate files. The com­mis­sion said …

A per­son of inter­est in an Indi­ana dou­ble mur­der was arrested on the Ohio Turn­pike after his car ran out of gas. 44-year-old James Lohnes is from Crown Point, Indi­ana was arrested for OVI on Sat­ur­day night about 11 p.m. While wait­ing for his arraign­ment, the Williams County Sher­iff got …

Bryan City Coun­cil wants to raise sewer charges by $7.50 per ser­vice unit. Last night they approved the first read­ing for the leg­is­la­tion. The rate increase will help pay for nec­es­sary work at the waste­water treat­ment plant. It’s expected to gen­er­ate nearly $3 mil­lion over the next seven years. Part …

Clifford Bryan Ellis, age 94, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away on Monday, January 18, 2016, at Genesis HealthCare-Bryan Center. Among Mr. Ellis’ survivors is his wife, Lucille I. (Hammonds) Ellis. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Krill Funeral Service, 860 West Mulberry Street, Bryan, where they are pending at this …

A blood drive is com­ing up in Henry County tomor­row. It’ll be at Camp Wide­wa­ter in Lib­erty Cen­ter from 1 p.m to 6 p.m. and walk-ins are wel­come. Call the Red Cross for more infor­ma­tion or to make an appoint­ment. 800-RED-CROSS.

The risk of Ohioans fac­ing an F5 tor­nado is real, and now Ohioans can apply to get up to 75 per­cent of the cost of a safe room paid for by the state. The pro­gram by the Ohio Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency is now tak­ing appli­ca­tions. The rebate allows for the …

In Ful­ton County, Job and Fam­ily Ser­vices is work­ing to help peo­ple who’ve been released from jail get a sec­ond chance. The pro­gram is Re-Entry Con­nec­tion, now a one-on-one sup­port sys­tem with a trained facil­i­ta­tor to help re-enter soci­ety after release. The pro­gram helps with finan­cial strug­gles, trans­porta­tion issues, edu­ca­tion, …

A man wanted on mul­ti­ple arrest war­rants out of DeKalb County was arrested Fri­day after a traf­fic stop. The man was a pas­sen­ger in the vehi­cle. 24-year-old Bran­don Robert­son of Auburn was arrested for hav­ing a hand­gun with­out a license, and was wanted on drug charges. He was taken into …