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The Henry County Engineer’s Office has announced plans are under­way to replace four bridges and resur­face about 11 miles of roads at a cost of about $2.3 Mil­lion. On top of that, the county this year will chip and seal about 36 miles of road­way. On the list this year, …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol, along with local law enforce­ment, inves­ti­gated a series of weather-related crashes begin­ning Sat­ur­day morn­ing, all due to the storm that moved through our area. The weather changed quickly Sat­ur­day morn­ing. Snow started to fall, and the wind picked up, caus­ing severe low vis­i­bil­ity and blow­ing …

A semi truck was slammed by a train. It hap­pened Sat­ur­day after­noon in the vil­lage of Leip­sic. The Put­nam County Sheriff’s Office says just before 1 Sat­ur­day after­noon, the truck was trav­el­ing on County Road 5, north of Ohio 613 when it slid on the road­way and ran into the …

Flames broke out over the week­end in an Angola garage that was attached to a home on West Loon Lake Road. It hap­pened Sat­ur­day after­noon. For­tu­nately, the door between the breeze­way of the home and the garage was closed, which fire­fight­ers say pre­vented the flames from spread­ing into the house, …

Bryan Police, early Sun­day morn­ing, arrested 35 year old Erik Flinn of South Williams Street on a bench war­rant out of Williams County Court for fail­ing to appear. He was locked up in CCNO. Last evening, Bryan Police nabbed Troy York of Toledo, on a bench war­rant out of Bryan …

The win­ter weather has left one per­son dead fol­low­ing a crash in our area. Blow­ing and drift­ing snow Sat­ur­day morn­ing resulted in a chain-reaction crash on Ohio 576, between County Road H and County Road I. Then, about an hour later, just before 11:30 Sat­ur­day morn­ing, a crash on the …

An eight-member jury in Defi­ance County on Fri­day, fol­low­ing a three day trial, decided that the sur­viv­ing spouse of a for­mer employee at Defiance’s Gen­eral Motors plant is enti­tled to ben­e­fits through the state’s work­ers com­pen­sa­tion pro­gram. In the suit, which was filed back in 2009 by Loretta Bryant of …

A Bryan busi­ness owner says he’s afraid of get­ting a bad rap for the actions of oth­ers that he had no con­trol over. Patrick Pesse­fall took the old “M.O.D.E.L. Com­mu­nity School for Stu­dents with Autism” sign off his store front Thurs­day morn­ing. The Bryan Times reports that Pesse­fall owns the …

A jury trial that began Wednes­day in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court, is expected to con­tinue today. It con­cerns a woman’s claim that asbestos expo­sure at Defiance’s Gen­eral Motors plant caused the death of her hus­band, who worked there. Loretta Bryant of Defi­ance, filed the law­suit in 2009, after the …

The Ohio High­way Patrol says two pickup trucks and another vehi­cle were involved in a crash Thurs­day morn­ing. IT hap­pened just before 8:30 yes­ter­day morn­ing on Ohio 34, just west of County Road 18. Traf­fic in that area was lim­ited to one lane while crews worked to clear the mess, …