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Defi­ance City Coun­cil sealed the deal on an annex­a­tion near U.S. 24 and Car­pen­ter Road on Tues­day night by approv­ing an ordi­nance accept­ing the annex­a­tion on Com­merce Drive. It brings about 46 acres of Rich­land Town­ship into the city next to Johns Manville’s Car­pen­ter Road plant and just south of …

The Amer­i­can Red Cross of Defi­ance is hold­ing a blood drive today from 2–7 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in the fel­low­ship hall at 400 Wayne Avenue in Defi­ance. All donors today will receive a cooler tote bag. To save time and sched­ule an appoint­ment, call 800–733-2767.

No one was injured, but some vehi­cles and a garage were destroyed by flames Tues­day in Defi­ance. Fire­fight­ers were called to 700 Perry St. at about 6:25 p.m. When crews arrived, the garage and a truck were heav­ily involved. Two vehi­cles were destroyed by the fire, one inside the garage …

Some Ohio con­ser­v­a­tives who say they were tar­geted by the Inter­nal Rev­enue Ser­vice are head­ing to Wash­ing­ton as fed­eral inves­ti­ga­tions widen into the agency’s han­dling of tax-exempt appli­ca­tions. Sev­eral activists on Wednes­day described IRS treat­ment they sus­pect was polit­i­cally moti­vated. The Jus­tice Depart­ment is open­ing a crim­i­nal probe into improper …

Two fires and a two car col­li­sion kept emer­gency respon­ders in Williams County busy Tues­day after­noon. Just before 3pm, Edger­ton fire­fight­ers were called out to a blaze at a mobile home on County Road 9 just south of Ohio 24. No one was home at the time and no injuries …

The fight is on to save jobs in Edon. The for­mer Diver­si­fied Machine Inc., now called Chas­six Inc., announced on April 23rd that the com­pany plans to close the Edon plant by Feb­ru­ary 2014, and most employ­ees are expected to be released by the end of 2013. Approx­i­mately 76 work­ers …

Bryan Police say that on Tues­day at 7:00 AM, they arrested 33 year old Joshua D. Maag of Sycamore Lane, Bryan on two bench war­rants out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. The first war­rant was for fail­ing to appear on a show cause hear­ing regard­ing theft and the sec­ond was for …

No deci­sion has yet been made by the Napoleon Area Board Of Edu­ca­tion about plac­ing another oper­at­ing levy on the Novem­ber bal­lot. Last week, dis­trict vot­ers rejected a 0.5 per­cent school income tax that would have gen­er­ated $1.15 mil­lion annu­ally for oper­a­tions. It was the third time in 14 months …

Local gov­ern­ments and schools in Ohio could see almost $113 mil­lion in rebates from the state insur­ance fund for injured work­ers under a pro­posal from the gov­er­nor. The Governor’s office on Mon­day released a break­down of the schools, town­ships, cities and other pub­lic employ­ers who could see a pay­out from …

A new prin­ci­pal at Stryker Local Schools is not nec­es­sar­ily new to the dis­trict. The announce­ment of the hir­ing of David Shultz was made Mon­day night by the school board. Schultz was hired, accord­ing to the Bryan Times, on a two-year contract.