A bill to delete the term “men­tal retar­da­tion” from state laws has been approved unan­i­mously in the Ohio House. The mea­sure replaces the phrase with the term “intel­lec­tual dis­abil­ity” and would spec­ify that con­di­tion as a form of devel­op­men­tal dis­abil­ity. More than just chang­ing the term, the bill also would …

A domes­tic vio­lence com­plaint has landed a Sher­wood man in jail. Sheriff’s Office says 30 year old Ray-Shawn Maulsby was charged with mis­de­meanor domes­tic vio­lence after he is accused of hit­ting a woman in the face at a home on W. Lawrence St. The man left the home before deputies …

The Sheriff’s Depart­ment is look­ing for a man they say tried to rob The Barn car­ry­out on E. Sec­ond Street Mon­day evening. The call to deputies came in just after 8 p.m. for a rob­bery in progress. The Crescent-News says the rob­ber was dressed in a black jacket and light …

Donnie Darrell Vent, Sr., age 85, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on Monday, January 25, 2016, at his home. He was an owner/operator truck driver and also drove for Arrow Tru-Line. He served in the U.S. Army as a military police officer from 1948-1949. Mr. …

The Bryan Area Cham­ber of Com­merce is accept­ing reg­is­tra­tions now for ven­dors at the 30th annual Williams County Busi­ness and Indus­try Show. It’s com­ing March 29. It’ll be held at the Bryan mid­dle school from 11 am to 7 pm. The orga­niz­ers say this is North­west Ohio’s largest event for …

The Fre­mont man sched­uled to go on trial on Feb­ru­ary 4 on drug charges has taken a plea agree­ment to plead guilty to charges of deal­ing metham­phet­a­mine. 52-year-old Robert Cox and nine other peo­ple were arrested last March in Steuben County. The judge will deter­mine the man’s sen­tence on Feb­ru­ary …

In Pauld­ing County, the for­mer direc­tor of the pro­ba­tion depart­ment has pleaded guilty to theft in office. 46-year-old Payne res­i­dent Emily Munger pleaded guilty to a 4th degree felony yes­ter­day in a pre­trial hear­ing in Com­mon Pleas Court in Put­nam County. She will be sen­tenced on March 21. She could …

A man who reg­is­tered as a Repub­li­can to run for Williams County Com­mis­sion now says he will run as an inde­pen­dent in Novem­ber. While Rod­ney Miller has his name on the March 15 bal­lot, now votes for him then will not count. He said he is drop­ping out as a …

In Ful­ton County, a Mont­pe­lier man was indicted this week for theft. 33-year-old Jason Franks is fac­ing one felony count of theft. Accord­ing to court doc­u­ments, the man is accused of steal­ing more than $1000 worth of prop­erty in October.

Attor­ney Gen­eral Mike Dewine has called an emer­gency meet­ing for law enforce­ment, med­ical per­son­nel and mem­bers of the jus­tice sys­tem last Thurs­day to address the grow­ing drug prob­lem in the Buck­eye State. Call­ing it the worst drug epi­demic in his life­time, Dewine says last year, at least three Ohioans every …