A woman was hit by a motor­boat while swim­ming on Lake James on Sat­ur­day. 65 year old Ruth Petitti of LaGrange was swim­ming Sat­ur­day after­noon around 2, when she was hit by a motor­boat dri­ven by 38 year old Matthew Gum­bel of Angola. Gum­bel and oth­ers told inves­ti­ga­tors that Petitti …

An agree­ment has been reached between the Defi­ance City Board of Edu­ca­tion and Defi­ance prop­erty own­ers Talmer and San­dra Hill­man con­cern­ing land just south of the Defi­ance High School cam­pus. Dur­ing a spe­cial meet­ing held yes­ter­day, a res­o­lu­tion was approved that autho­rizes a set­tle­ment of $265,000 for 4.2 acres at …

Joyce A. (Johnson) Eberly, age 69, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 12:00 A.M. on Saturday, July 18, 2015, at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where she was a patient after a brief illness. Joyce was a lifelong area resident and a 1964 graduate of Edgerton High School. …

Joseph E. Newman, age 69, of Hamilton, Indiana, and formerly a long time resident of Bryan, Ohio, and Defiance, Ohio, died on Friday, July 17, 2015, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Bryan. Mr. Newman was a 1964 graduate of Edon High School and was a veteran of …

Thomas “Tom” W. Watts, age 87, of Montpelier passed away on Friday morning at his home. He was born on March 22, 1928 in Defiance, Ohio to Thomas L. and Emma M. (Zackrich) Watts. Tom graduated from Montpelier High School in 1946 where he was a member of the football …

Paul L. Franzdorf, age 70, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away on Thursday, July 16, 2015, at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers in Bryan. Paul started working at Toledo Athletic Supply and at one time owned Defiance Athletic Supply and Awards Plus in Defiance, Ohio. He was also a courier for …

2 arrests by Williams County Sher­iffs Deputies on Sunday.….48 year old Brian Cor­mack of Delta was arrested at 1:30am Sun­day for OVI and no turn sig­nal. Cor­mack was released to a friend. In a sep­a­rate inci­dent, 57 year old Ran­dall Gor­don of Hicksville was also arrested for OVI and no …

A two-vehicle crash Fri­day morn­ing on West High Street in Bryan took the life of an Indi­ana man. 69 year old Joseph New­man of Hamil­ton Lake, was east­bound on West High Street when he was rear-ended by Paul Brown near the inter­sec­tion of Avenue A. Bryan Police say both Newman’s …

The shoot­ings in Chat­tanooga, Ten­nessee have hit home here in our area. Pauld­ing High School grad­u­ate Ran­dal Smith, a logis­tics spe­cial­ist in the US Navy, died over the week­end after he and four Marines were shot at a recruit­ing cen­ter in Chat­tanooga last Thurs­day. Smith suc­cumbed to his wounds at …

Two juve­niles who police say jumped from a mov­ing vehi­cle on State Route 120 Sun­day morn­ing, were flown to an area hos­pi­tal for treat­ment of their injuries. It hap­pened just before 7 yes­ter­day morn­ing, when the two were found lying in the road with seri­ous injuries. The Samar­i­tan Heli­copter was …