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The Ohio High­way Patrol reports that on Wednes­day after­noon, a trooper clocked a car at 69 miles per hour on US-127. When the trooper tried to stop the car, it turned into a dri­ve­way at a farm on Ohio 15 and a woman bolted from the passenger’s door. The trooper …

Edon Days kicks off tomor­row. It’s the annual sum­mer fes­ti­val in Edon and it will be held tomor­row, Sat­ur­day, and Sun­day. A cruise-in car show will be held tomor­row from 5 to 8 p.m. at Baker Park. At 6:30 p.m., the Lit­tle River Rail­road pas­sen­ger train leaves Edon Co-op for …

A tree cut­ting acci­dent Wednes­day after­noon leaves one man dead. 77 year old Robert Lam­bert of Defi­ance County was killed just after 4 p.m. yes­ter­day while cut­ting a tree near his home. Lam­bert was found by his fam­ily and was declared dead at the scene by the Defi­ance County Coro­ner. …

Fire­fight­ers were called out Wednes­day morn­ing to a fire at a vacant home on Mil­wau­kee Avenue in Defi­ance. Defi­ance Fire Depart­ment arrived on the scene at about 3:30 a.m. yes­ter­day where they received mutual aid by High­land Town­ship and Noble Town­ship fire depart­ments. The house, which was destroyed, will be …

The High­way Patrol reports that a rou­tine traf­fic stop evolved into a high speed chase on Mon­day evening. Troop­ers attempted to stop a pick-up truck on Ohio 576 near Mont­pe­lier after it was clocked at 77 miles per hour in a 55 zone. Rather than stop, the dri­ver sped south …

An Ohio man will be arraigned today in Cleve­land on charges of killing three women whose bod­ies were found wrapped in trash bags. The arraign­ment is sched­uled today for 35-year-old Michael Madi­son. He is being held on $6 mil­lion bond. A Cuya­hoga (ky-uh-HOH’-guh) County grand jury indicted Madi­son on six …

A man from Michi­gan was injured Mon­day after­noon in a motor­cy­cle crash near Napoleon. 65 year old Edward Sucharski lost con­trol of his bike around 2p.m. Mon­day at the inter­sec­tion of Ohio 108 and U.S. 24. Sucharski was thrown from the bike and flown to Mercy St. Vin­cent Med­ical Cen­ter …

Bryan Police report the arrest Tues­day of 21 year old Aaron Strauss of Mont­pe­lier on charges of fur­nish­ing alco­hol to minors. Strauss was also charged with pos­ses­sion of drug para­pher­na­lia. Four under­age juve­niles were also charged with under­age con­sump­tion. Strauss was locked up in CCNO.

This Sun­day, local golfers will cel­e­brate a re-birth. Orchard Hills is reopen­ing Sun­day with lim­ited ser­vices. A grand pub­lic re-opening cel­e­bra­tion is now sched­uled for August 15th. The Bryan Times reports that the course will employ the same staff as when it was shut down due to crush­ing debt and …

Herz­ing Uni­ver­sity — Toledo has announced that the school is avail­able to assist stu­dents cur­rently tak­ing classes at Ivy Bridge Col­lege, after it was learned Mon­day that the online edu­ca­tion option at Ivy Bridge will cease oper­a­tions in late Octo­ber. The two cam­puses offer pro­grams in health­care, tech­nol­ogy, crim­i­nal jus­tice, …