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A man entered pleas Tues­day in Defi­ance County Court to charges result­ing from sev­eral armed rob­beries. 20 year old Michael Brown of Defi­ance faces manda­tory prison time after plead­ing no con­test to charges of aggra­vated bur­glary and felo­nious assault with a firearm spec­i­fi­ca­tion. A pre-sentence inves­ti­ga­tion was ordered and Brown’s …

Stryker Vil­lage Coun­cil met on Mon­day night and dur­ing that meet­ing, a lot of time was spent dis­cussing how to con­trol stray cats. After the issue of the dis­posal of trapped stray cats by the police depart­ment last month, The Bryan Times reports that coun­cil dis­cussed the need for an …

Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers met Mon­day and approved the hir­ing of two new full-time employ­ees as assis­tant cus­to­di­ans for the county cour­t­house and office build­ings. The new hires offi­cially start on July 15. The Bryan Times also reports that Com­mis­sion­ers met in exec­u­tive ses­sion to dis­cuss details per­tain­ing to cour­t­house secu­rity. …

Defi­ance County Com­mis­sion­ers on Mon­day approved three grant agree­ments with the Ohio Pub­lic Works Com­mis­sion for next year. Work will take place on Ban­ner School Road, Hire Road, and The Bend Road. Com­mis­sion­ers yes­ter­day also approved a state-funded Mov­ing Ohio For­ward demo­li­tion project for a house on Inde­pen­dence Road with …

Ohio law enforce­ment author­i­ties said on Mon­day the inmate who briefly escaped a state prison last week before he was tack­led and tied up with rope at a small gen­eral store used lad­ders to get out of three fenced areas. A spokesper­son for the Ohio State High­way Patrol said James …

Two men and a woman were injured Sun­day evening in a motor­cy­cle crash 30 year old Adam Cousino of Grand Rapids, was taken by air ambu­lance to St. Vin­cent Mercy Med­ical Cen­ter, Toledo, and 36 year old Eric Sta­ton of Toledo, was taken by air ambu­lance to Toledo Hos­pi­tal. Staton’s …

Bryan Police report the arrest of a Stryker man for under­age drink­ing. 18 year old Tim­o­thy Pow­ell was picked up in Bryan on Thurs­day, July 5th. He was later released. Also on Thurs­day, 25 year old Edward Smith III of Bryan was arrested for dis­or­derly con­duct after warn­ing and men­ac­ing. …

Recent Fayette High School grad­u­ate, 18 year old Noelle Good­son, entered the Stand and Be Heard Anthem Singing Con­test in May, in which each of the con­tes­tants sings the national anthem. Now, The Bryan Times reports that to move for­ward in the com­pe­ti­tion, Noelle must be in the top 20 …

Michi­gan Author­i­ties have recov­ered the body of a 36-year-old man who dis­ap­peared after jump­ing into the water last Wednes­day to save an 8-year old boy. Searchers found the body Sat­ur­day after­noon around 2:30pm. A woman called 911 Wednes­day evening, say­ing her boyfriend and son were in the water off the …

The Inde­pen­dence Dam State Park, with the help of some area Boy Scouts, plans to reopen 15 non-electric camp­ing sites after the sites were closed down 10 years ago. Each site will have a fire ring, pic­nic table and clear view of the river. There will be three camp­ing spaces …