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Begin­ning Thurs­day and run­ning through the rest of the month of July, US 20A, between CR O and the Ohio Turn­pike will be closed for cul­vert replace­ment. Detours will be in place. Also Through July, TR 65, between CR 13 and CR 15 is closed for cul­vert replace­ment. Detours will …

A Defi­ance woman died Sat­ur­day in a two-vehicle crash. The High­way Patrol reports that 62 year old Jan­ice Thomp­son was south­bound on Car­pen­ter Road at about 10:45 a.m. when she ran through an inter­sec­tion and was hit by a west­bound pickup truck on Ban­ner School Road dri­ven by 74 year …

Bryan Police were busy over the week­end. On Sat­ur­day, police arrested 26 year old Matthew Wolfe of Bryan on a bench war­rant. Wolfe was locked up in CCNO. On Sun­day, Bryan Police arrested 41 year old Dustin Coler of Bryan on a bench war­rant. Coler was taken to CCNO. Bryan …

Details are still sketchy, but police say at least one per­son was injured and car­ried via Life Flight from the scene of a head-on col­li­sion on U.S. 127 Sun­day evening. The Ohio State High­way Patrol has not issued a for­mal report but they do indi­cate that the acci­dent hap­pened around …

This guy has a rather inter­est­ing address… A home­less man who is sub­ject to court orders related to a sex crime con­vic­tion has reg­is­tered his address as beneath the Clin­ton Street bridge in Defi­ance. He says that’s his home, and the court says if it is, then he must observe …

The Ohio School Facil­i­ties Com­mis­sion on Thurs­day approved over $18.8 mil­lion in state fund­ing for school con­struc­tion work in the Bryan City School Dis­trict. The dis­trict is one of 19 from across the state that received an offer of fund­ing from the Com­mis­sion, which over­sees the state’s school facil­ity ren­o­va­tion …

An inves­ti­ga­tion into four auto thefts in Williams County led to a high-speed chase Thurs­day morn­ing, which in turn, led to injuries for two offi­cers and dam­age to three police cruis­ers. In the end, two men were in police cus­tody. A joint press release issued last evening by the Stueben …

One of the new laws in the recently-passed State of Ohio’s bud­get was the change in the home­stead exemp­tion law. Before the change, per­sons 65 years old and older were allowed to take the home­stead exemp­tion on their real estate taxes, regard­less of income. The aver­age sav­ings for a 65-year-old …

One of the new laws in the recently-passed State of Ohio’s bud­get was the change in the home­stead exemp­tion law. Before the change, per­sons 65 years old and older were allowed to take the home­stead exemp­tion on their real estate taxes, regard­less of income. The aver­age sav­ings for a 65-year-old …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office reports that a train derailed Wednes­day after­noon just before 2:30 between County Roads 8 and 9. The sheriff’s office con­firms that the Nor­folk South­ern train was not car­ry­ing any haz­ardous mate­ri­als and there were no injuries. The derail­ment occured at the same place where another …