Frances M. Hook, 96 years, of Bryan passed away Wednesday July 29, 2015 at Genesis Healthcare- Bryan Center. Frances was born March 2, 1919, in Alliance, Ohio to the late Jesse and Murel (Low) Hook. She was a 1937 graduate of Bryan High School. She also attended International Business College …

Defi­ance County Com­mis­sion­ers on Wednes­day, approved a $70,000 Revolv­ing Loan Fund agree­ment for a Hicksville busi­ness that is expand­ing it’s oper­a­tions there. The agree­ment will now allow A&P Tool Inc., to acquire machin­ery and equip­ment for it’s planned expan­sion and growth. A&P in Hicksville, is plan­ning to add a 14,000-square-foot …

A truck dri­ver was killed early Wednes­day morn­ing in a semi crash on the Ohio Turn­pike near Delta. 47 year old Rus­sell Florida of War­ren, was pro­nounced dead at the scene. The crash hap­pened early yes­ter­day morn­ing, around 12:35 a.m., when a semi dri­ven by 61 year old Charles Simons …

A 75-year-old man and 66-year-old woman in Napoleon have been arrested for Pos­ses­sion of Cocaine. The Multi Area Nar­cotics Task Force, along with Napoleon Police and the Henry County Sheriff’s Office, exe­cuted a search war­rant at 50 Sun­ny­dale Lane in Napoleon, where they found sus­pected cocaine and paraphernalia. 75 year …

Power was out for more than 8 hours Tues­day in down­town Pauld­ing after a semi got caught on a power line. Pauld­ing Police say it hap­pened Tues­day, just after­noon, when Tim Free­man, the truck dri­ver, was try­ing to find his way out of town, when his trailer caught the low …

Pauld­ing Put­nam Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive is oper­at­ing under a peak alert today. It’s all due to the hot tem­per­a­tures, and the load fore­cast. PPEC reports that it will be under a peak alert from 2–8 p.m. That’s when all cus­tomers are asked to con­serve energy, along with any peak hours, to …

A Williams County man has been charged with mur­der… again! 24 year old Tyson Reli­ford of Edger­ton, is charged with first degree mur­der in con­nec­tion with the death of 3-year-old Colum­bus girl ear­lier this year. Reli­ford was also charged with assault and child endan­ger­ment in con­nec­tion to an inci­dent that …

A Defi­ance man is sched­uled to be arraigned Mon­day in Williams County Court on charges that he sex­u­ally abused a minor. 42 year old Bobby Strat­ton was indicted ear­lier this month by a Williams County grand jury on one count of sex­ual bat­tery and two counts of unlaw­ful sex­ual con­duct …

Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter is work­ing on a plan that will com­ply with new Med­ic­aid con­flict of inter­est rules affect­ing county boards of devel­op­men­tal dis­abil­i­ties across the state and the coun­try. At their reg­u­lar Admin­is­tra­tive and Non-Profit Board meet­ing on Tues­day, board mem­bers learned that the cen­ter is plan­ning to pri­va­tize …

A Pauld­ing County Sheriff’s Office pris­oner trans­port van crashed on Mon­day, injur­ing a Pauld­ing County offi­cer and five inmates. It hap­pened at the inter­sec­tion of Ohio 613 and Ohio 637 around 8AM Mon­day, when another vehi­cle dri­ven by 49 year old Mark Rol­ston of Michi­gan, failed to yield to the …