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Williams County is work­ing on a new instant alert sys­tem, designed to get emer­gency infor­ma­tion out to peo­ple faster and more effi­ciently. It’s being called Alert86.com, but don’t let the name fool you. It’s far from just another web­site. Soon, it will be vis­i­ble every­where, and it will have it’s …

Wauseon Police arrested 24 year old Kyle Stipp of Arch­bold Tues­day and charged him with first-degree aggra­vated rob­bery in con­nec­tion with a holdup at the Con­ti­nen­tal Drive Thru Carry Out in Waseon. Police say Stipp used a gun in the rob­bery, and made off with some cash in the rob­bery …

Defi­ance police have arrested a woman in con­nec­tion with a shoot­ing that hap­pened on Tues­day. 44 year old Pauletta Sali­nas of Defi­ance is now charged with felo­nious assault and is being held at the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio. Her ini­tial appear­ance in Defi­ance Munic­i­pal Court is set for tomor­row …

Bryan Police nabbed a local woman on a bench war­rant. 34 year old Crys­tal Schu­man of Mont­pe­lier, was arrested on a bench war­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. The orig­i­nal charge was Aggra­vated Men­ac­ing. She was taken to court and released.

A shoot­ing Tues­day after­noon in Defi­ance is under inves­ti­ga­tion by Defi­ance Police. Accord­ing to a press release issued last evening, offi­cers were called just before 4:30 yes­ter­day after­noon to 617 Bunn Drive where a man was found with a gun­shot wound to his chest. Police say both that man and …

Author­i­ties are still try­ing to fig­ure out who the other per­son was who was killed in a plane crash in Han­cock County last week­end. So far, the body that has been iden­ti­fied was that of Ralf Bron­nen­meier, CEO of Grob Sys­tems in Bluffton, who was pilot­ing the single-engine plane. The …

Pauld­ing County Sher­iff Jason Lan­ders issued a press release Tues­day morn­ing, in which he said that he has decided not to place an oper­at­ing levy on the Novem­ber bal­lot for the pur­pose of reopen­ing the Pauld­ing County Jail. The sher­iff said his deci­sion came from the fact that over the …

A man and woman from Bryan are charged in Napoleon Munic­i­pal Court with second-degree felony drug charges. The Ohio State High­way Patrol on Sat­ur­day, arrested 29 year old Saman­tha Huff and 28 year old Joshua Den­ni­son in Henry County, and charged them with assem­bly of chem­i­cals to man­u­fac­ture metham­phet­a­mine. Den­ni­son …

It’s now been learned that one of the two peo­ple killed in a week­end plane crash was the CEO of an Ohio man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pany. Ralf Bron­nen­meier was the CEO of Grob Sys­tems in Bluffton. He was at the con­trols of the single-engine plane that crashed early Sun­day morn­ing just north­east …

Bryan City Coun­cil met in spe­cial ses­sion Mon­day and approved the pro­mo­tion of Michael Willis to be the next chief of police in Bryan. Willis will fill the shoes of out­go­ing chief Jeff Arnold, who is step­ping down and retir­ing effec­tive Sept. 14. Mayor Doug John­son told the Bryan Times …