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Deputies arrested Bryan res­i­dent Richard O. Jones on rape charges. The 68-year-old man was indicted on nine gross sex­ual impo­si­tion charges and one indict­ment of rape. He was taken to the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio and booked into the jail.

A 20-year-old Bryan woman was cited for fail­ure to con­trol her vehi­cle after she crashed just after mid­night Tues­day. Bethany Phillips crashed on State Route 34 and hit sev­eral guard rails. She wasn’t hurt.

In Orland, police have found an alleged meth lab and arrested four peo­ple. The home on West Kim­ball St. was the scene of the arrest Tues­day evening of 18-year-old Chace Gam­ble of Kendal­lville, 25-year-old Kirsten Calla­han of Orland on sev­eral related drug charges. 21-year-old Ryan Sells of Colum­bia City and …

A weather spot­ter train­ing class is being offered free by the Henry County Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency in Napoleon next month. The course to become a SKYWARN Spot­ter for the National Weather Ser­vice and Henry County will be held at the office at 1874 Oak­wood Avenue on Feb­ru­ary 3rd. The two …

The Defi­ance County Sheriff’s Office is look­ing for two indi­vid­u­als who have active war­rants for their arrest. The first is Ruben Bena­vides, last known liv­ing in Hicksville. He has an active war­rant for pro­ba­tion vio­la­tion. Next is Pamela Graves from Defi­ance. Deputies are look­ing for her for vio­lat­ing her pro­ba­tion. …

A fatal crash on U.S. 24 had high­way traf­fic closed for three hours yes­ter­day and a local man lost his life. Troop­ers with the Ohio High­way Patrol say 63-year-old Joe Sali­nas of Leip­sic went the wrong way on 24 and hit a semi head on just before 3 p.m. Sali­nas …

OSHA has cited Bryan Pack­ag­ing for ten seri­ous vio­la­tions of worker safety. The E. Perry St. com­pany was fined $25,200 after an inspec­tion of their Bryan oper­a­tion. The fines were mainly safety vio­la­tions that could result in worker injury, such as “lockout/tagout” vio­la­tions. The com­pany is part of Pro-Pak Indus­tries …

Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers are con­sid­er­ing hir­ing an IT pro­fes­sional to help man­age the county’s data. At the meet­ing on Tues­day, the county recorder told the com­mis­sion that they are run­ning out of stor­age space on the servers and a short term fix is to delete dupli­cate files. The com­mis­sion said …

A per­son of inter­est in an Indi­ana dou­ble mur­der was arrested on the Ohio Turn­pike after his car ran out of gas. 44-year-old James Lohnes is from Crown Point, Indi­ana was arrested for OVI on Sat­ur­day night about 11 p.m. While wait­ing for his arraign­ment, the Williams County Sher­iff got …

Bryan City Coun­cil wants to raise sewer charges by $7.50 per ser­vice unit. Last night they approved the first read­ing for the leg­is­la­tion. The rate increase will help pay for nec­es­sary work at the waste­water treat­ment plant. It’s expected to gen­er­ate nearly $3 mil­lion over the next seven years. Part …