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Dog licenses are due by Jan­u­ary 31st for all of man’s best friends who are older than three months old. Licenses are $16 dol­lars and avail­able at the county dog pound. Own­ers that don’t license their dogs are sub­ject to a fine and pos­si­ble court action if the dog gets …

Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers have ten­ta­tively ok’d a request to annex 10-acres into the city of Bryan. Those two parcels are adja­cent to the Williams County Regional Air­port. The peti­tion­ers, Dan Esh­man Jr., and Nathan and Thonda James, want the annex­a­tion to have access to city util­i­ties. There were no objec­tions. …

In case you hap­pen to win big in last nights nearly half a bil­lion dol­lar power­ball, a local attor­ney has some advice. Jim Weaner who prac­tices in Defi­ance, told the Cres­cent News that the first thing to do is tell your spouse and no one else. He said it’s impor­tant …

In Hicksville, Deputies and Police served a search war­rant at a home on Oscar St. and arrested three peo­ple about 8 p.m. A drug task force was look­ing for a sus­pected active metham­phet­a­mine labs, which were report­edly found, removed and neu­tral­ized. The three arrested include 51-year-old Ken­neth Knapp of Hicksville, …

A Ful­ton County teenager who hadn’t got­ten his license yet led deputies on a high speed chase ear­lier this week. The Sheriff’s Office said the teen, who was not named, was afraid when a deputy tried to pull him over for a rou­tine traf­fic stop and sped off. Sher­iff Roy …

Police in Edon have arrested 45-year-old man on a charge of com­pelling a minor to engage in pros­ti­tu­tion, that’s a third degree felony. He was arrested at his job as co-manager of Bomber’s Saloon and Steak­house on New Year’s Eve about 5 p.m. Edon police say the arrest came after …

Nom­i­na­tions are now being accepted for the Bryan Area Foundation’s Good Cit­i­zen of the Year Award. Since 1980, the award has been used to rec­og­nize Bryan cit­i­zens who make a pos­i­tive impact in the com­mu­nity and have helped make Bryan a great place to live. Jack Brace, Pres­i­dent and CEO …

A Defi­ance teen was taken into cus­tody after he fled from offi­cers while hand­cuffed. Accord­ing to Police, they were called to the Defi­ance High School just before 2 p.m. Tues­day to help the Defi­ance County Juve­nile Pro­ba­tion with a 16-year-old male being taken into cus­tody for a pro­ba­tion vio­la­tion. While …

The final two days of deer-gun hunt­ing sea­son saw 9,447 white-tailed dear check­ing on Decem­ber 28 and 29th, accord­ing to the Ohio Depart­ment of Nat­ural Resources. The last time Ohio had a year-end deer hunt­ing sea­son was three years ago, and nearly five thou­sand more deer were har­vested then. Hunters …

With the new year, new may­ors in the coun­ties were sworn into office. In Pauld­ing Vil­lage, Gregg Rine­hart held his first meet­ing on Mon­day as mayor. The new mayor was sworn in with new coun­cil­men in Napoleon at a meet­ing Mon­day night. Jason Maas­sel was elected mayor there in November. …