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The high­way patrol is inves­ti­gat­ing a fatal two-vehicle crash in Williams County, that hap­pened Mon­day evening at the inter­sec­tion of County Road I and County Road 10 in Supe­rior Town­ship. Police say a vehi­cle dri­ven by 34 year old Misty Rice of Edon was west­bound on County Road I when …

Flames heav­ily dam­aged a home in Defi­ance Sun­day after­noon. Defi­ance Fire­fight­ers were called out just after 3pm to a house on North­wood Drive. The ini­tial report indi­cated that a man was on fire at the two-story home. The vic­tim was taken to ProMed­ica Defi­ance Regional Hos­pi­tal, then flown to Toledo …

On Mon­day evening, just after 6, Bryan Police arrested 59 year old Adrian Vac­caro of Bryan on a war­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court for Fail­ing to Appear. The orig­i­nal charge Vac­caro faced was OVI and Expired License. Now, he’s in a lit­tle deeper. He was taken to CCNO where …

In Bryan, at least one prop­erty owner thinks there is a prob­lem with some lawn reg­u­la­tions in Bryan. The Bryan Times reports that Bryan res­i­dent Chuck Shep­ard showed up at Monday’s city coun­cil meet­ing to ask that coun­cil recon­sider its lawn care leg­is­la­tion after a home he owns was tagged …

The Defi­ance County Sheriff’s Office announced on Fri­day, that they have received a new per­ma­nent drug dis­posal box, which is now avail­able for res­i­dents to dis­pose of unneeded or unwanted pre­scrip­tion med­ica­tions. It’s located at the Defi­ance County Sheriff’s Office, just inside the lobby. The box is a safe alter­na­tive …

Fire­fight­ers from three area fire depart­ments were called out Sun­day to a house fire in Defi­ance. The call came in just after 3 yes­ter­day after­noon, and fire­fight­ers rushed to 336 North­wood Drive for a man who had report­edly caught fire. When they got there, they also found a two-story home …

The Ohio High­way Patrol is inves­ti­gat­ing a crash that hap­pened Fri­day after­noon on the Ohio Turn­pike in Ful­ton County. Police say it hap­pened just before 3:30 Fri­day after­noon when a con­ver­sion van dri­ven by 49 year old Rosa Bar­rios of Illi­nois went out of con­trol, ran off the right side …

As news reports over the week­end told about Toledo and sur­round­ing areas deal­ing with a water cri­sis, our water here in Williams County is report­edly safe. The Bryan Times is report­ing that no com­mu­ni­ties in Williams County were affected by the advi­sory issued by the city of Toledo. How­ever, as …

Today is the fist day of August, National Immu­niza­tion Aware­ness Month, time for par­ents to plan to take their school-age kids for their vac­ci­na­tions. Don’t for­get that here in Ohio, immu­niza­tions are required for chil­dren start­ing pre-school. The cost of most child­hood vac­ci­na­tions at the health depart­ment is $10 per …

The Henry County Com­mis­sion­ers this week, approved a res­o­lu­tion to place a levy on the bal­lot to pro­vide finan­cial sup­port for Coun­tryview Haven. It’s a 1.6 mill levy, cov­er­ing the next three years, which they say will pro­vide fund­ing for main­tain­ing and oper­at­ing the county home in Henry County. Also …