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 …

Van­dals have been active this week in Williams County. Police say at least 10 Williams County res­i­dents have dis­cov­ered over the past sev­eral days, that their mail­boxes have been tar­geted. Three such instances were reported Wednes­day morn­ing out­side of Bryan, Stryker and West Unity. The Bryan Times reports that on …

An Arch­bold man is headed to prison for two years after plead­ing guilty to steal­ing $37,500 from an elderly Bryan widow over a five-year period. 27 year old Keith Pedigo could have had as long as a three-year sen­tence for third degree theft from an elderly per­son. IN addi­tion to …

Two men from Indi­ana were hurt in a Wednes­day after­noon crash that hap­pened in Defi­ance County. The dri­ver, 18 year old Christo­pher McBride of Hunt­ing­ton, Indi­ana, was taken to ProMed­ica Defi­ance Regional Hos­pi­tal. A pas­sen­ger in the vehi­cle, 19 year old Aaron Franks, also of Hunt­ing­ton, was flown to Parkview …