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A law­suit has been filed against the Henry County com­mis­sion­ers by a Napoleon busi­ness­man. Dou­glas Pelmear and Horse Power Sales Net Inc. filed the suit in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court against the com­mis­sion­ers and a list of oth­ers, alleg­ing that paper­work was not prop­erly pre­pared for a $50,000 revolv­ing …

Bryan Board of Pub­lic Affairs mem­ber Bill Yahraus died Wednes­day at his home. Among his sur­vivors is his wife Judy. Yahraus served in the U.S. Navy for four years and has three sons, Bradley, Jeff and Dan, five grand­chil­dren and three great-grandchildren. In addi­tion to his pub­lic ser­vice, he was …

More trou­bles for local tech­nol­ogy com­pany Ruralogic… The com­pany has now been named in yet another law­suit, and this time it’s in fed­eral court. The U.S. Depart­ment of Labor filed a com­plaint alleg­ing improper use of pen­sion funds. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, Ruralogic Inc., along with its sis­ter com­pany …

The Liberty-Benton School Dis­trict announced Tues­day it will fire one employee, and another has resigned fol­low­ing vio­la­tions of school board poli­cies about con­tact between staff mem­bers and stu­dents. The school says wrestling coach Shane Troyer will be fired and choral direc­tor Bryan Black has resigned fol­low­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion that found …

Napoleon Police say they have arrested two male juve­niles they say are involved in recent thefts and van­dal­ism inci­dents in the city. A 16 year old and a 17 year old from Napoleon were detained, and search war­rants were exe­cuted. Dur­ing those searches, watches and a ring that had been …

Inves­ti­ga­tors now say they’re pretty sure that it was a com­bi­na­tion of alco­hol and speed that lead to a rollover crash Sun­day night that left a man from Angola crit­i­cally injured. The Steuben County Sheriff’s Depart­ment says it was just after 11 p.m. when 30 year old Joseph E. Glenn …

Span­gler Candy Com­pany of Bryan, which has long been a major pro­ducer of candy canes, is mak­ing some changes this year to its Dum Dums lol­lipops and Cir­cus Peanuts marsh­mal­low can­dies. After 107 years in the candy busi­ness, Span­gler says it will dress up its two sta­ple can­dies for the …

North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege nurs­ing stu­dents are host­ing a Health Fair on Thurs­day. In addi­tion to health tips, the fair will fea­ture a flu shot clinic cour­tesy of the Ful­ton County Health Depart­ment. Flu shots will be avail­able for $20 for adults and $10 for chil­dren. The entire event will …

Pio­neer has now voted to ban the man­u­fac­ture, sale, dis­tri­b­u­tion and pos­ses­sion of syn­thetic drugs and syn­thetic drug looka­likes. On Mon­day the vil­lage coun­cil reports the unan­i­mous vote to pass a new ordi­nance designed to make sub­stances known as syn­thetic mar­i­juana, K2, spice, bath salts, pot­pourri and oth­ers ille­gal, after …

Renewal of an agri­cul­tural lease was a hot but­ton topic Mon­day night in Stryker. The Bryan Times reports that three years ago bids were taken for a 34-acre prop­erty on the south side of the vil­lage. The high bid­der from that period was asked Mon­day to renew the lease for …