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The con­victed Ohio school shooter TJ Lane escaped from state prison in Lima last night and was caught about 5 hours later. The 19 year-old Lane, who killed three stu­dents at Chardon High School Cafe­te­ria in 2012, went on the run in west­ern Ohio after escap­ing with two other inmates …

With sum­mer past and older kids in school the Main Library Children’s Depart­ment in Bryan will begin the fall pro­grams for small kids. Story times will be Tues­days start­ing this com­ing Tues­day the 16th. It will be a themed story about pirates. Story times will be 11 in the morn­ing …

A res­pi­ra­tory virus that’s hos­pi­tal­ized more than 500 chil­dren nation­wide may be sick­en­ing kids in North­west Ohio. 795 chil­dren were treated in local emer­gency rooms in the region between Sep­tem­ber 1st and Sep­tem­ber 9th, and 224 of those cases were res­pi­ra­tory ill­nesses. Enterovirus is an uncom­mon strain of a virus …

Some local lawyers will be hon­ored for their long ser­vice to the com­mu­nity at the Lun­cheon Meet­ing of the Ohio State Bar Asso­ci­a­tion Dis­trict 3 Lun­cheon at Father John’s Micro­brew­ery in Bryan. At the meet­ing on Sep­tem­ber 23 the pres­i­dent of the State Bar Asso­ci­a­tion will speak about issues fac­ing …

Many will be com­mem­o­rat­ing the events of 9/11 today with memo­r­ial events, and for the third year in a row Defi­ance will host the Tun­nel to Tow­ers 5K run and walk on Sat­ur­day. The Defi­ance race ben­e­fits the First Respon­der Char­ity Fund, which pro­vides fam­i­lies of first respon­ders with gas …

A man in Toledo will never hear the end of it after becom­ing a bad exam­ple of what can hap­pen while being dis­tracted by tex­ting. Gre­gory John­son was walk­ing along a street yes­ter­day and tex­ting when he fell into an open man­hole. He was minorly injured in his ten foot …

Defi­ance restau­rant owner Karl Kiss­ner con­tin­ues to enjoy noto­ri­ety two years after dis­cov­er­ing a trea­sure trove of base­ball cards in the attic of a home once owned by his grand­fa­ther. It was a pris­tine, never cir­cu­lated col­lec­tion of base­ball cards dis­trib­uted with candy at the turn of the last cen­tury …

The Williams County Com­mu­nity The­ater com­pany com­peted over Labor day at the Ohio Com­mu­nity The­ater Asso­ci­a­tion com­pe­ti­tion, and came away with some awards. For their pro­duc­tion called Proof, they got an Out­stand­ing in Ensem­ble Award. Loni Scott earned an Out­stand­ing Act­ing Award and Jeremy Scott picked up a Merit in …

The Ful­ton County Cour­t­house is get­ting a new coat of paint. Brian Broth­ers painters of Piqua landed the 58 thou­sand dol­lar job. They are paint­ing all the vents and the tower of the county cour­t­house in Wauseon. Last time the cour­t­house was painted was 20 years ago. Next project after …

There was some momen­tary anx­i­ety, but the dam­age turned out to be min­i­mal after fire­fight­ers were called Sun­day to a Defi­ance Col­lege dor­mi­tory on Web­ster Street where smoke was com­ing out of a room. The build­ing was evac­u­ated by the time fire­men arrived, and some­one inside who lived in the …