Matilda Busse, age 91, passed away Wednesday November 4, 2015 in her home. Mrs. Busse was a lifelong homemaker. Mrs. Busse was born in Bellevue, Ohio on June 26, 1924 the daughter of the late Joseph and the late Matilda (Seifert) Kasselman. She married Paul Busse and he preceded her …

Forty years ago today, The Edmund Fitzger­ald, the largest freighter on the Great Lakes, sank in hur­ri­cane force winds leav­ing Supe­rior, Wis­con­sin for Detroit. All 29 crew mem­bers died, and no one knows exactly why she went down. Six crew mem­bers were from Ohio.-0– A Williams County Wildlife Offi­cer has …

A story that shocked the Buck­eye state… the 21 month old tod­dler whose decom­posed body was found in her crib. Now a new trial date has been set for the baby’s father, who’s just been declared com­pe­tent to stand trial. 34 year old Eric War­fel had pleaded not guilty by …

If you know of some­one who’s made a dif­fer­ence, North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Foun­da­tion is look­ing for them. They’re accept­ing nom­i­na­tions for next year’s Mak­ing A Dif­fer­ence Award, given to an indi­vid­ual, a busi­ness and orga­ni­za­tion. The cer­e­mony is in May. Nom­i­na­tion forms are online at NorthwestState.edu. They are due …

Gas prices are as low as 2.21 a gal­lon in Bryan this morn­ing. That’s down about a nickel from last week, and down about 60 cents from a year ago. Ana­lysts at Triple A say good sup­ply should keep gas prices low for the Thanks­giv­ing travel season.

A Toledo funeral home direc­tor has lost his license and pleaded no con­test to abuse of a corpse charges. Robert Tate was found guilty yes­ter­day in Lucas County Com­mon Pleas Court. Police raided the Tate Funeral Home in May, find­ing sev­eral bod­ies that were not embalmed and severely decom­posed. His …

In Pauld­ing County, there’s a new Drug Court, set up to help lower-level, non­vi­o­lent felony offend­ers with drug or alco­hol issues. The first court was in late Octo­ber, and its goal, said Judge Tiffany Beck­man, is for par­tic­i­pants to defeat their addic­tion and become con­tribut­ing mem­bers of soci­ety. The three …

The State of Ohio’s “pay for stay” pro­gram for jail inmates has col­lected more than a half a mil­lion dol­lars in the past five years. The Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio reported yes­ter­day that money goes back to the juris­dic­tions that use the pro­gram. Those inmates who are con­victed of …

An air­man with local ties in Bryan has been hon­ored as one of the top 40 young mem­bers of the USmil­i­tary by Civil­ian Jobs, an online mil­i­tary job site. 29 year old Seth Michael is a senior air­man in the Air Force. He’s sta­tioned in Florida as a reservist and …

Eva L. Coffman, age 78, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 11:40 P.M. on Thursday, November 5, 2015, in her home following an extended illness. Mrs. Coffman was a homemaker. A graduate of Spencerville, Ohio, High School, she and her husband had been residents of Edgerton since 1974 and wintered in …