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Begin­ning Sun­day, dri­vers could legally drive 70 mph on the new U.S. 24 from Water­ville to just west of Napoleon. The new speed lim­its, effec­tive yes­ter­day, come fol­low­ing an over­haul of state high­way speed lim­its. The new speed limit applies to both cars and trucks, but in some cases the …

If you like ribs, then hope­fully you didn’t miss this past weekend’s Rib Fest in Defi­ance. Down­town Defi­ance was the place to be for rib-lovers dur­ing the city’s fifth annual rib fest on Sat­ur­day. Saturday’s fes­ti­val was spon­sored by The State Bank and Gen­eral Motors, and fea­tured local food ven­dors …

Bryan Police report the sev­eral arrests from Thurs­day… 28 year old Tiffany Risk of Mont­pe­lier was arrested for shoplift­ing. Risk was turned over to West Unity Police, who were hold­ing two war­rants on her at the time of that arrest. 32 year old Troy Ward of Bryan was arrested and …

As part of her Mid­west book tour, author Shirley Showal­ter will be at Sauder Vil­lage next week, on Octo­ber 3 and 4, to pro­mote her new book. Guests will have an oppor­tu­nity to meet Ms. Showal­ter at an evening book sign­ing and can also attend a free lec­ture Fri­day morn­ing …

A deci­sion on whether or not to pro­ceed any fur­ther with the pro­posed ren­o­va­tion of Defi­ance County’s cour­t­house has been delayed. Offi­cials had planned to decide dur­ing county com­mis­sion­ers meet­ing Thurs­day on whether to allow a Colum­bus archi­tec­tural firm to con­tinue with the project. That deci­sion was to have been …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office has released a state­ment say­ing that a Williams County man who had been reported miss­ing has been located. 73 year old Richard Down­ing was located by Penn­syl­va­nia State Police near New Cas­tle, Pa. after State Police there responded to a call of a dis­abled vehi­cle …

The thought of annex­a­tion of the Gen­eral Motors Defi­ance Cast­ing Oper­a­tions plant by the city of Defi­ance has gen­er­ated a less than enthu­si­as­tic response from GM offi­cials. Defi­ance is pro­vid­ing water ser­vice to the plant, and there­fore it falls under the list of prop­er­ties that the city is tar­get­ing for …

Bryan Police say they arrested a Bryan woman on Wednes­day. 48 year old Rhonda Domire of East Wil­son Street was picked up on a bench war­rant issued out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. Domire was locked up in CCNO.

A home exploded early Wednes­day morn­ing near Lib­erty Cen­ter, killing one per­son and seri­ously injur­ing another. Police say it hap­pened around 7:30 yes­ter­day morn­ing at a home on County Road 9 and the blast could be heard as far away as Ridgeville Cor­ners. 63 year old Judy Gar­wood died, and …

Fire­fight­ers from through­out the area were called out to a house fire in Defi­ance Wednes­day morn­ing. The call came in just before 4am for the blaze at 702 Har­ri­son Avenue. When crews arrived, they found heavy smoke and flames com­ing from the attic of the two story home. One per­son …