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Ohio offi­cials plan to bol­ster crim­i­nal back­ground checks for those home health-care work­ers who pro­vide direct care to the dis­abled and elderly. The state has received a $2.1 mil­lion fed­eral grant to pro­vide increased reviews for more than 100,000 work­ers who serve patients in Med­ic­aid– and Medicare-funded set­tings. Ohio also …

Orchard Hills could be open within the month. And it’s look­ing as though the course will be open to every­one, as a pub­lic course. Richard Ander­son of Mont­pe­lier con­firmed Thurs­day that he is the one who pur­chased the prop­erty in last month’s sealed auc­tion for a lit­tle over one mil­lion …

The Out­stand­ing Edu­ca­tor Award by The Bryan Area Foun­da­tion went to one of Bryan’s edu­ca­tors, Mike Tip­pin last night dur­ing the Bryan High School Aca­d­e­mic Booster Club awards night. Nom­i­na­tions for the award were accepted by the ABC club from the pub­lic, and the col­lec­tion com­mit­tee con­sisted of edu­ca­tors and …

A two-vehicle acci­dent on U.S. 24 and Henry County Road 17D left at least two peo­ple injured Thurs­day. The acci­dent hap­pened just before 1 p.m yes­ter­day. Napoleon res­cue took one vic­tim to a Defi­ance hos­pi­tal; another per­son was flown by air ambu­lance to a Toledo hos­pi­tal. While the air ambu­lance …

Bryan Police have been kept quite busy the past sev­eral days. On Wednes­day night, 20 year old Eric D. Kendall of 206 Glen Arbor Drive, Bryan, was arrested for OVI. He was released. Also on Wednes­day evening, 23 year old Cora R. Gonyea of 209 E. Perry St in Bryan, …

A man has used a shop­ping cart sev­eral times over the past cou­ple weeks to break through the front door of an Angola store early in the morn­ing. Both times, the Angola Police Depart­ment says, he took beer. The beer bur­glar in sur­veil­lance video footage appears to be white and …

Indi­ana State Police said Thurs­day that a man was arrested Wednes­day night after resist­ing police and throw­ing a one-pot meth lab. 39 year old Larry W. Wise­man was being held in the Steuben County Jail on pre­lim­i­nary charges of man­u­fac­tur­ing metham­phet­a­mine and resist­ing law enforce­ment. Police were mak­ing a traf­fic …

Appar­ently, the peo­ple of Ohio are not prone to restrain their lan­guage. The Seattle-based Marchex Insti­tute, in a recent study, found that Buck­eye State res­i­dents by and large, can swear along with the best sailors. The insti­tute stud­ied more than 600,000 phone calls placed in the last year from con­sumers …

A man has been arrested after mak­ing threats in Henry County. The Bryan Times reports that 37 year old Valentino Garza of Defi­ance was arrested Tues­day evening at Alex Prod­ucts when he reported for work there. Garza is accused of threat­en­ing the busi­ness in online com­ments on Face­book after the …

The Williams County Board of Health on Tues­day, denied a vari­ance request. Cory Not­man had been granted a vari­ance in 2009, allow­ing him to hook up a mobile home to the sewer on his prop­erty in Kun­kle while he was ren­o­vat­ing the house to live in. Now, accord­ing to The …