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Defi­ance County Com­mis­sion­ers on Mon­day approved three grant agree­ments with the Ohio Pub­lic Works Com­mis­sion for next year. Work will take place on Ban­ner School Road, Hire Road, and The Bend Road. Com­mis­sion­ers yes­ter­day also approved a state-funded Mov­ing Ohio For­ward demo­li­tion project for a house on Inde­pen­dence Road with …

Ohio law enforce­ment author­i­ties said on Mon­day the inmate who briefly escaped a state prison last week before he was tack­led and tied up with rope at a small gen­eral store used lad­ders to get out of three fenced areas. A spokesper­son for the Ohio State High­way Patrol said James …

Two men and a woman were injured Sun­day evening in a motor­cy­cle crash 30 year old Adam Cousino of Grand Rapids, was taken by air ambu­lance to St. Vin­cent Mercy Med­ical Cen­ter, Toledo, and 36 year old Eric Sta­ton of Toledo, was taken by air ambu­lance to Toledo Hos­pi­tal. Staton’s …

Bryan Police report the arrest of a Stryker man for under­age drink­ing. 18 year old Tim­o­thy Pow­ell was picked up in Bryan on Thurs­day, July 5th. He was later released. Also on Thurs­day, 25 year old Edward Smith III of Bryan was arrested for dis­or­derly con­duct after warn­ing and men­ac­ing. …

Recent Fayette High School grad­u­ate, 18 year old Noelle Good­son, entered the Stand and Be Heard Anthem Singing Con­test in May, in which each of the con­tes­tants sings the national anthem. Now, The Bryan Times reports that to move for­ward in the com­pe­ti­tion, Noelle must be in the top 20 …

Michi­gan Author­i­ties have recov­ered the body of a 36-year-old man who dis­ap­peared after jump­ing into the water last Wednes­day to save an 8-year old boy. Searchers found the body Sat­ur­day after­noon around 2:30pm. A woman called 911 Wednes­day evening, say­ing her boyfriend and son were in the water off the …

The Inde­pen­dence Dam State Park, with the help of some area Boy Scouts, plans to reopen 15 non-electric camp­ing sites after the sites were closed down 10 years ago. Each site will have a fire ring, pic­nic table and clear view of the river. There will be three camp­ing spaces …

Defi­ance County sales tax rev­enue is reported to be up more than 4 per­cent com­pared to this time last year. From Jan­u­ary to June, Defi­ance County has received more than $2.5 Mil­lion in sales tax. That fig­ure rep­re­sents an increase of 4.4 per­cent, over the amount col­lected in the same …

A cou­ple of arrests by the Bryan Police depart­ment to report on today… On Mon­day, Bryan Police picked up 33 year old Scott Stuller of Bryan on a bench war­rant issued out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court for fail­ure to appear. He was taken to court, then released. Also on Mon­day, …

The vil­lage of Ney, 6 miles south of Bryan, got hit by the effects of what may have been a fun­nel cloud over the week­end. The National Weather Ser­vice says the dam­age came from straight-line winds, but they are inves­ti­gat­ing the pos­si­bil­ity that a small tor­nado may have been sighted. …