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A dri­ver from Indi­ana was crit­i­cally injured Fri­day, when his trac­tor trailer slammed into a pick-up truck haul­ing liq­uid fer­til­izer. The crash hap­pend early Fri­day after­noon on U.S. 24 when the semi dri­ven by 75 year old Dana Cox of Indi­ana hit a tank trailer haul­ing liq­uid fer­til­izer that was …

Three arrests this week­end in Bryan, two of them involv­ing alco­hol. 22 year old Ken­neth Chap­puies of Bryan was charged wtih OVI and Open Con­tainer. He was released. 22 year old Miguel Rodriguez of Bryan was also pulled over and charged with hav­ing an open con­tainer of alco­hol, but he …

We pause during the Memorial Day holiday weekend to pay tribute to those who have paid the ultimate price for our country. In this touching video, apparently recorded at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, members of the Delta Honor Guard receive the flag-draped coffins of a soldier and his service dog.

Flame on Wednes­day evening destroyed a barn in Pauld­ing County. The fire was first called in just after 9pm with a report of a blaze on County Road 49, near Payne at the barn, owned by Thomas Laukhuf. Payne, Pauld­ing, Scott, Grover Gill and Con­voy fire depart­ments, as well as …

A bicy­clist is dead fol­low­ing an acci­dent Wednes­day evening in Defi­ance. 54 year old John Clay, of Defi­ance, was south­bound on the side­walk of the Clin­ton Street Bridge on Wednes­day night, when he lost con­trol of the bike, and fell into the south­bound lane of the bridge, where he was …

There is a new pres­i­dent of the Defi­ance Area Cham­ber of Com­merce. He’s Dar­rell Handy, who said that he hopes his pro­fes­sional expe­ri­ence and work­ing rela­tion­ships within the com­mu­nity will be an asset as the next cham­ber pres­i­dent. Handy replaces Isaac Lee, who left in March, to become vice pres­i­dent …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol is remind­ing dri­vers this Memo­r­ial Day to not get behind the wheel impaired. Troop­ers and local law enforce­ment will be join­ing forces in an effort to keep Ohio roads fatal­ity free this hol­i­day. Troop­ers made 763 OVI arrests dur­ing the 2014 Memo­r­ial Day hol­i­day. Dur­ing …

Romauldo Cor­doba Jr. of Arch­bald, was indicted Mon­day in Wauseon on one count of mur­der with a firearm spec­i­fi­ca­tion and one count of felony domes­tic vio­lence. Cor­doba is in Texas, where he was appre­hended last week, await­ing extra­di­tion back to Ohio. If con­victed on the mur­der charge, Cor­doba could be …

Wanted… one good engi­neer. Pay rate… to be deter­mined. In Defi­ance, the city is look­ing to fill the vacant engineer’s posi­tion, but at what cost… that is still up in the air. Some city offi­cials say in order to get the right per­son for the job, they may have to …

Ten indict­ments were handed down this week by a Williams County grand jury. Among them… 33 year old Eric Fuller; 43 year old Mar­tin Her­nan­dez III; 21 year old Jen­nifer Con­ley; 50 year old Anthony Hall­man; 22 year old Anna Garver; 34 year old Joshua Ruther­ford; 43 year old Mark …