A Defi­ance teen was taken into cus­tody after he fled from offi­cers while hand­cuffed. Accord­ing to Police, they were called to the Defi­ance High School just before 2 p.m. Tues­day to help the Defi­ance County Juve­nile Pro­ba­tion with a 16-year-old male being taken into cus­tody for a pro­ba­tion vio­la­tion. While …

The final two days of deer-gun hunt­ing sea­son saw 9,447 white-tailed dear check­ing on Decem­ber 28 and 29th, accord­ing to the Ohio Depart­ment of Nat­ural Resources. The last time Ohio had a year-end deer hunt­ing sea­son was three years ago, and nearly five thou­sand more deer were har­vested then. Hunters …

With the new year, new may­ors in the coun­ties were sworn into office. In Pauld­ing Vil­lage, Gregg Rine­hart held his first meet­ing on Mon­day as mayor. The new mayor was sworn in with new coun­cil­men in Napoleon at a meet­ing Mon­day night. Jason Maas­sel was elected mayor there in November. …

Now to Pauld­ing county where they’re talk­ing about body cam­eras and assault rifles for Vil­lage police offi­cers. In the Pauld­ing coun­cil meet­ing on Mon­day police chief Randy Craw­ford said they’ve been look­ing at a few dif­fer­ent types of cam­eras and would like to try the kind that Antwerp Vil­lage police …

Stay­ing in Ful­ton County, the results of a traf­fic blitz con­ducted through­out most of Decem­ber have been released. Deputies made 46 traf­fic stops and issued 13 cita­tions, 11 were for speed, and two were for dri­ving dur­ing restricted hours on a pro­ba­tion­ary dri­vers license. Deputies also issued almost as many …

In Ful­ton County, mem­bers of a Syl­va­nia Town­ship pit bull res­cue group are fac­ing mis­de­meanor charges in West­ern Dis­trict Court. The case cen­ters around a pit bull that allegedly bit his owner result­ing in minor injuries. The pit bull res­cue crew picked up the dog named Bosco and quar­an­tined him. …

The lat­est num­bers are in from the Ohio State High­way Patrol, report­ing infor­ma­tion from Christ­mas and New Years enforce­ment. 10 peo­ple were killed on Ohio’s road­ways dur­ing the New Year’s hol­i­day from New Year’s eve through Jan­u­ary 3. Troop­ers cited 950 dri­vers for safety belt vio­la­tions and 438 dri­vers were …

Irene T. Suarez, age 42, passed away on Friday, January 1, 2016 at the Fulton County Health Center in Wauseon, the result of injuries sustained from a motor vehicle accident. She was a driver for the Fulton County Board of Developmental Disabilities. Irene was born in Wauseon on February 9, …

The Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties online pay­ment sys­tem is back up and run­ning after a week of inter­mit­tent out­ages. Bryan City Clerk Laura Rode told the Bryan Times that the issues have not had much of an impact on cus­tomers abil­ity to pay their util­ity bills, because the prob­lems were off …

Now in news that affects your wal­let, Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers say the pri­or­ity this year is to reduce the county’s debt. The bulk of the debt stems from the con­struc­tion for the county’s East Annex office build­ing at 1425 E. High St. In other devel­op­ments, a Delphos con­struc­tion com­pany won …