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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. …

Two peo­ple in Henry County were arrested fol­low­ing a theft inves­ti­ga­tion. The Henry County Sheriff’s office says 38 year old Erica Simon, and 37 year old Frank Simon, both from the Mal­inta area were both taken into cus­tody. Erica Simon has been charged with theft; Frank Simon has been arrested …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office says 55 year old Colleen Schlosser of Eden was involved in a sin­gle vehi­cle acci­dent on Mon­day morn­ing on County Road 1.5 just south of US-20 in North­west Town­ship, when she hit a deer that ran onto the high­way. Her vehi­cle sus­tained minor dam­age. No …

Gov. John Kasich is com­ing to Williams County. The gov­er­nor plans to stop at a local farm in our area late this after­noon. Accord­ing to the governor’s press office, he will be stop­ping between 5:30–6:30 this after­noon at the Glen New­comber farm south of Bryan. Every­one is wel­come to stop …