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Repub­li­can U.S. Rep. Bob Latta will hold a pub­lic cyber­se­cu­rity sem­i­nar from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. next Tues­day at Defi­ance College’s Schomberg Audi­to­rium. The FBI and Cen­tra­Comm of Find­lay will also be par­tic­i­pat­ing. Sem­i­nar top­ics will include pro­tect­ing against online iden­tify theft and pre­vent­ing intel­lec­tual prop­erty theft, phish­ing, attacks …

The first ever “Hogs for Dogs” poker run to ben­e­fit the ani­mals at the Fort Defi­ance Humane Soci­ety is this Sat­ur­day at Napoleon Harley-Davidson. The run is open to all makes and mod­els of bikes, with reg­is­tra­tion set to start at 10 a.m., and the first bike out at 11 …

Some major enter­tain­ment is lined up for the Defi­ance County Fair in Hicksville. An open­ing day per­for­mance by leg­endary rock band Foghat will kick things off this year. You might remem­ber their hit… “Slow Ride“ Admis­sion to the 137th Defi­ance County Fair is $5 for adults and $3 for chil­dren …

Are you a cus­tomer of Farm­ers and Mer­chants State Bank? If so, you should be on the alert for a poten­tial scam, in which bank cus­tomers have been get­ting auto­mated phone calls, in which they are told that their debit or credit card accounts have been locked. The cus­tomer is …

A man from Bryan, among a group of four arrested on metham­phet­a­mine charges in drug last April near Hamil­ton was sen­tenced to 25 years behind bars Mon­day in Steuben Supe­rior Court. 34-year-old Joseph Cotrell, in a plea agree­ment, admit­ted to a felony charge of aid­ing in the man­u­fac­ture of meth. …

The War­rior Honor Motor­cy­cle Run is Sat­ur­day at the Yan­kee Motor­cy­cle Club in Defi­ance. It ben­e­fits the Wounded War­rior Project. Reg­is­tra­tion at the club is at 9 and the first bike will be out at 10:30.

Bryan Police on Sat­ur­day, arrested 21 year old Jonathon Hig­bee of Bryan on a bench war­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court for fail­ing to appear. The orig­i­nal charge against Hig­bee was pass­ing bad checks. He was taken to CCNO, where he was locked up to guar­an­tee that he will appear …

A crash Sat­ur­day night took the life of a Bryan man. The Ohio High­way Patrol at Defi­ance says 24 year old Ter­rence Sheets was west­bound on Road D in Williams County, just east of Ohio 576, when he ran off the road, then crossed back over the cen­ter, went off …

Gov­er­nor John Kasich showed up to make a cam­paign speech in our area Fri­day evening. Kasich, who is seek­ing re-election in Novem­ber, vis­ited the Glen New­comer farm on Ohio 15, just south of Bryan. It was open to the pub­lic, and spon­sored by the Williams County Repub­li­can Party. About 250 …

Inves­ti­ga­tors have now deter­mined that the cause of a fire that left a Defi­ance man crit­i­cally injured back on Aug. 3rd, was acci­den­tal. It hap­pened at a home on North­wood Drive in Defi­ance, when Gre­gory Dob­son used some accel­er­ant to light a char­coal grill, which was close to the house. …