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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.“ …

The Board of Edu­ca­tion at Millcreek-West Unity Local Schools unan­i­mously elected at last night’s meet­ing, to bring back its school resource offi­cer for the com­ing school year. The posi­tion was cre­ated in Jan­u­ary of the 2012–13 school year, and the offi­cer is pro­vided by the vil­lage of West Unity Police. …

The Ohio Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency says it has dis­cov­ered E. coli in an area water­way. The Agency says the bug was found in Mill Creek, and the county has 30 days to cre­ate a plan to address it. The EPA reports that it col­lected three sam­ples, one on June 25, another on …

Offi­cials report that over­all atten­dance was up at the gates, but not at the events dur­ing the recent 136th Annual Defi­ance County Fair. Truck pulls and har­ness rac­ing had good turnouts, even despite the rain on Thurs­day. Unfor­tu­nately, two other events fell short. Come­dian Gallagher’s “Last Smash Tour” before his …

Fam­ily and friends now have a new process to visit those incar­cer­ated at the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio. Video vis­i­ta­tion was recently imple­mented, allow­ing the vis­i­tor to sched­ule vis­its on line as well as sched­ule an off-site visit via web cam­era. Under the new pro­ce­dure, the vis­i­tor will now …

Bryan Police say they arrested a 20 year old Fort Wayne man Sun­day for under­age drink­ing. Travis Oxley also was wanted on a war­rant out of Defi­ance Munic­i­pal Court. He was locked up at CCNO. Also arrested on Sun­day was 19 year old Sean Crocker of Bryan. Crocker was charged …

Defi­ance vot­ers will be asked to approve a bal­lot issue on Nov. 5 that would increase the munic­i­pal income tax from 1.5 per­cent to 1.8 per­cent. The 0.3 per­cent increase would be used to sup­port police and fire ser­vices only, whose bud­gets (total­ing $4.4 mil­lion) appear in the city’s $9.2 …