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Students at Bryan City Schools will be wearing masks for the foreseeable future during class. The same goes for and all indoor sporting events…following a spike in COVID-19 cases. Officials say the policy isn’t meant to be permanent…with a review set for Oct. 1. The decision to institute a mask …

Two men are arrested on a suspicious vehicle complaint. All this…at the Fountain Park Assisted Living, Memory Care & Villas on N. Main St., in Bryan. John Scurlock and Nicholas Still face charges now. Officials say Still, 40, of Bryan, had been warned against being on the property. He now …

One is dead and four are injured…after a three-car crash in Defiance Saturday, on Route 24, between Jewell and Independence Roads in Richland Township. An officer has pulled someone over. As that goes on…another vehicle…driven by Justin Johnson of Defiance…drifts off the roadway onto the shoulder…hitting the patrol car…then…the two …

Mosquitos…carrying the West Nile virus…have been found in Steuben County. Health officials say a pool of mosquito groups were collected on Aug. 19 in the northwestern region of the county. To date, no human cases of the virus have been reported. Residents are asked to protect themselves from mosquitos because …

An Angola teen is killed by a shotgun blast while he is handling it with a friend inside a Fremont home. Police and medics were called to a Baum Street location on the shots fired call. Officials tell reporters two 18-year-old men were involved. State and local officials identify the …

Superintendent, Bob Morton of Defiance City Schools says…students, staff and visitors on campus…will be required to wear masks indoors, beginning now. He tells the public…during the first nine days of school, the district had 20 student cases and two staff cases of covid…resulting in 77 student quarantines.

A Hicksville businessman enters pleas to two criminal charges in a Defiance County courtroom. Bruce Guilford, 66, of Hicksville, pleads guilty to what is called a bill of information…charging him with extortionate extension of credit…and unlawful restraint. He is placed on community control while two grand jury indictments for far …

Sheriff’s deputies arrest a Montpelier woman Monday…accused of breaking into a home, north of Pulaski…and then attacking a family babysitter. Linda Lakes faces burglary charges. She was taken to CCNO…since released on her own recognizance…provided she stay away from the victim, or that location. Apparently, Lakes had been told in …

Due to the recent spike in COVID-19 cases, an annual event…that promotes health among local senior citizens…has been canceled. The Rainbow of Wellness health care conference, which has typically taken place each October at the Veterans Memorial Building…on the Williams County Fairgrounds in Montpelier…gave seniors a chance to learn about …

The Williams County Health Department reports there were 87 new cases of covid between Aug. 17 and Aug. 24…and one new hospitalization. Officials expect both those numbers to increase…due to the delta variant, which has become the dominant strain of the virus found in Ohio. Williams County had 455 cases …