A man was arrested Sat­ur­day morn­ing in Bryan after police say he fired a shot into the air dur­ing a dis­pute with his girl­friend. It hap­pened at 115 North Cherry Street just after 2:00am. Offi­cers found that a female res­i­dent of was attempt­ing to get into the res­i­dence where she …

Accord­ing to ODOT, part of Ohio 2 will be down to one lane this week. ODOT says the part of Ohio 2, between U.S. 6 and Ohio 576, is being reduced to one lane dur­ing pave­ment repair all this week. Work, accord­ing to the state agency, is expected to con­clude …

The Defi­ance Col­lege Board of Trustees has named Dr. Richanne C. Mankey as the college’s 19th pres­i­dent. Dr. Mankey is the first woman pres­i­dent in the 165-year his­tory of the col­lege. She will begin her pres­i­dency on cam­pus Jan. 11. Mankey suc­ceeds Mark Gor­don, who stepped down to accept the …

Williams County Sher­iff Steve Towns announced yes­ter­day that the Ohio Depart­ment of Pub­lic Safety has awarded just under $34,000 in fed­eral traf­fic safety fund­ing to his office for 2016. Based on crash data, there have been 7 fatal crashes in Williams County in 2015 and to help reduce those num­bers, …

A crash involv­ing two semis on U.S. 24 in Pauld­ing County on Wednes­day, is still under inves­ti­ga­tion by the Ohio State High­way Patrol. 42 year old Daniel Guy Jr of Toledo, one of the dri­vers, was taken to Fort Wayne by air ambu­lance where he is being treated for crit­i­cal …

A $16.77 Mil­lion 2016 oper­at­ing bud­get was approved dur­ing Wednesday’s meet­ing of the Cor­rec­tions Com­mis­sion of North­west Ohio with 9 votes in favor. Both mem­bers from the City of Toledo, as well as Williams County Sher­iff Steve Towns, abstained, and the Toledo City Law Direc­tor said while he felt it …

It now appears that the reported abduc­tion of a Cold­wa­ter woman was faked. Michi­gan State Police say the 18 year old woman called 911 Mon­day after­noon, and told them that she had been abducted while walk­ing along a road in Cold­wa­ter Town­ship. She said the man tied her up and …

A Fre­mont woman who already had a war­rant out for her arrest on three drug charges stem­ming back to inci­dents that hap­pened in Novem­ber of 2011 appeared for an ini­tial hear­ing on Tues­day. 45-year-old Kris­tine Bisel is fac­ing felony charges for Deal­ing Mar­i­juana and for Unlaw­ful Pos­ses­sion or Use of …

Williams County author­i­ties have had very lit­tle to say and have released almost no infor­ma­tion over the past sev­eral days with regard to a mur­der inves­ti­ga­tion that is now under­way. Offi­cials in North Car­olina how­ever, have been more acco­mo­dat­ing. In High Point, North Car­olina, Fox 8 TV late yes­ter­day, reported …

Frances E. Maneval Harter, 86 years, formerly of West Unity, passed away Monday, October 26, 2015 at The Laurels of Shane Hill, Rockford, Ohio.  Frances was born June 18, 1929 in Bellevue, Ohio, the daughter of the late Claude and Mary (Eberly) Bartholomew.  She was a 1947 graduate of York …