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The Bryan Fire Depart­ment responded to a call for help at a house fire just after 3 o’clock Wednes­day after­noon. The fire was reported at a home at 221 N. Cherry St. in Bryan. No word on injuries or dam­age esti­mates. The inves­ti­ga­tion is con­tin­u­ing today.

A Napoleon man has been arrested in con­nec­tion with an inves­ti­ga­tion into sex­ual assaults on chil­dren. Napoleon Police say 57 year old Daniel Gon­za­les has been charged with one count of Rape, and two counts of Gross Sex­ual Impo­si­tion. The vic­tims are a 10 year old, an 11 year old, …

Group meet­ings will soon be tak­ing place at Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter to deter­mine how to best incor­po­rate the ideals of the Good Life train­ing into its oper­a­tion. Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Bruce Abell told board mem­bers at the monthly board meet­ing on Tues­day that Pro­gram Coor­di­na­tor Shan­non Zellers had recently grad­u­ated from …

Dis­as­ter averted! Jail doors at the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio are now open again to all juris­dic­tions after being closed for two full days to Defi­ance County while five of the six juris­dic­tions have been asked to reduce their pop­u­la­tions which exceed 90 per­cent. he pop­u­la­tion peaked at 95.5 …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office reports that a man died Tues­day after­noon in a trac­tor acci­dent. 63 year old farmer Dou­glas Mack was found by a fam­ily mem­ber as he was pinned under a trac­tor on a farm lane near his home. Williams County Sheriff’s offi­cers said, in a release …

A man had to be flown via Life Flight to St. Vin­cent Med­ical Cen­ter in Toledo fol­low­ing a house fire Tues­day after­noon. The Bryan Times reports that fire fight­ers were called out to a house fire at the home of Jerry Zim­mer­man on County Road 26–2 around 1:15 yes­ter­day after­noon. …

Word has been received that a man from Bryan has been shot in Cal­i­for­nia. 19 year old Lance Cor­po­ral Liam Phillips, a 2012 Bryan High School Grad­u­ate, was shot three times dur­ing an off-duty inci­dent at Marine Corps Air Sta­tion Mira­mar on Sun­day evening. Phillips sur­vived the shoot­ing and was …

Folks in Pulaski Town­ship are now a bit safer dur­ing severe weather. The Pulaski Town­ship Trustees announced Tues­day the addi­tion of two new tor­nado sirens to increase the severe weather warn­ing cov­er­age. The new sirens now bring to six the num­ber of sirens in the county. The Bryan Times reports …

Jail doors were closed Sat­ur­day to Defi­ance County while pleas went out to area offi­cials as an over­crowd­ing emer­gency was declared at the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio. The over­all pop­u­la­tion at CCNO peaked to 606 or 95.5 per­cent last Sat­ur­day. Defi­ance County was shut off as its pop­u­la­tion stood at 65 …

The recent hot weather takes its toll on every­one. The elderly and the young, along with those in poor health gen­er­ally are most at risk from the exces­sive heat. With that in mind, North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege has announced that it is open to the pub­lic as a “cool­ing cen­ter.“ …