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A Defi­ance man lead police on an early morn­ing pur­suit through Williams and Defi­ance coun­ties on Fri­day. The high­way patrol reports that offi­cers tried to pull over a pickup truck that had been stolen in Bryan. 28 year old Tyler Kun­sman was behind the wheel when the truck was involved …

When bad weather blows in to north­west Ohio, local law enforce­ment agen­cies want you to know about it. Now, as tech­nol­ogy changes, more gov­ern­ments and munic­i­pal­i­ties are using alert noti­fi­ca­tion sys­tems to send texts directly to mobile phones. Cur­rently, the Defi­ance County Sheriff’s Office uses a sys­tem like that to …

Watch out for the lat­est com­puter scam mak­ing the rounds. Police say it works like this… The vic­tim receives a phone call say­ing their home com­puter has a virus. They are then told it can be taken care of for just $2,090. If the vic­tim agrees, the crook or crooks …

A fam­ily of eight lost their home in a week­end fire near Scott. The home belong­ing to the Rich Strunk­en­burg fam­ily in Pauld­ing County caught on fire Sun­day after­noon around 5. Now, the Cres­cent News reports that a spe­cial fund has been set up to help the fam­ily at the …

With the hol­i­day sea­son halfway over, the Ohio High­way Patrol is ask­ing dri­vers to con­tinue to buckle up and refrain from dri­ving impaired. Dur­ing this year’s five-day Christ­mas Hol­i­day report­ing period of Decem­ber 24 at 12 a.m. through Decem­ber 28 at 11:59 p.m., 10 peo­ple were killed in 10 fatal …

Two peo­ple from Bryan have been charged fol­low­ing a dog attack ear­lier this month that ended when Bryan Police shot and killed one of the dogs. Offi­cers were called out on a report of two unli­censed pit bulls run­ning loose in the area of the Amer­i­can Legion Post 284 and …

The Asso­ci­ated Press this morn­ing is report­ing that a man and his wife have pleaded guilty in the death of a Michi­gan man whose body was found in an empty grain stor­age barn in Put­nam County ear­lier this month. Robert Strauss of Toledo pleaded guilty to mur­der on Mon­day and …

A flatbed trac­tor trailer from Michi­gan went out of con­trol and then crashed in a field north of Defi­ance on Mon­day morn­ing. The Ohio High­way Patrol says it hap­pened just before 8 yes­ter­day morn­ing at the Ohio 15/18 split. The semi was south­bound on Ohio 15 when the dri­ver missed …

Some inter­est­ing news from the local police blot­ter today… Bryan Police report that early Fri­day morn­ing, a North Wal­nut Street res­i­dent of Bryan reported her vehi­cle was stolen by some­one she knew. Police located the vehi­cle and dri­ver who was in the process of return­ing the vehi­cle. The woman who …

A man from Pio­neer died Fri­day morn­ing in a two-vehicle crash in Williams County. The Ohio High­way Patrol says it hap­pened just after 8 Fri­day morn­ing on Ohio 15 in Jef­fer­son Town­ship, when 19 year old Joshua Tay­lor was head­ing north on 15, and his Chevy Sil­ver­ado went out of …