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For two weekends in a row, Christ our Savior Lutheran Church in Defiance has been vandalized. The church, at the corner of Carter Road and Ohio 66 South, cancelled worship on Oct. 17 due to the break in, sometime the night of Oct. 16 to early morning on Oct. 17. …

State officials announce the first round of water infrastructure grant funding…though the Ohio BUILDS initiative…with $93 million dollars awarded to 54 projects, including one in Bryan. The city will receive a $2.1 million grant to replace approximately 8,200 feet of gravity sanitary sewer lines in the western part of the …

A Fayette man is sentenced to prison in a Williams County courtroom…for a theft-related crime spree involving a co-defendant. Austin Swirles gets four to six years behind bar…on three counts of burglary…safecracking…and more. He was also ordered to pay restitution of $3,000 and given credit for 73 days served in …

Swanton Local Schools voters will decide next week…whether to approve a substitute levy that would mean no increase in taxes on current property. The five-year, 3.4-mill proposal would replace an emergency levy that originally passed at 6.9. Proponents say the first year of the substitute levy generates the same dollar …

A Defiance County grand jury returns an attempted murder indictment. The panel accuses Tre Vasquez, on a list of felony charges. Prosecutors say Vasquez tried to strangle an adult female at a Seneca Street residence in Defiance. They add he intended to kill her. This happened back on October 8th. …

A teen driver is arrested…charged with a minor consuming alcohol…after crashing into a Waterloo field with two passengers in the car. Officials say, early Sunday, 18-year-old Summer Restle of Garrett was driving southbound on CR 27. She tries to turn east onto CR 14 at a high rate of speed. …

In DeKalb County…a multi-vehicle crash leaves a woman injured. This happened on Friday afternoon. Crews were sent to the intersection of C.R. 00N and C.R. 39. When they get there…they find out…Jasmine Chriswell, 31, of Garret, was at a stop sign at the intersection. When she continued forward…her minivan is …

Expanded early voting hours next week could bring an influx of voters to the county elections office. That’s what area elections officials tell reporters. As of Friday, 310 early ballots have been cast in person at the elections office, with 112 mail-in ballots returned out of 212 mailed. Nursing homes …

A Cecil man is arrested in Lucas County following a high-speed vehicle pursuit that began in Defiance County. Thomas McMichael, 32, was taken into custody near milepost 57 on U.S. 24 by the Ohio Highway Patrol. He is charged with failure to comply with the order or signal of a …

Ohio’s debut of its new license plate failed to take off….because a banner, depicted on the plate…was attached to the wrong end of the Wright Brothers’ historic first plane, the Wright Flyer. The new license plate illustrates rays of sunlight beaming into the sky, with a banner that reads “Birthplace …