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Three peo­ple from the area have been named as defen­dants in a law­suit alleg­ing vio­la­tions of Ohio’s char­i­ta­ble and secu­ri­ties laws in con­nec­tion with an inter­na­tional pyra­mid scheme that was recently shut down by fed­eral and inter­na­tional author­i­ties. On Tues­day, the Ohio Attor­ney Gen­eral and the Ohio Depart­ment of Com­merce …

Edon School Dis­trict is the only dis­trict in Williams County not receiv­ing any addi­tional funds over the next two years. Most of the schools are get­ting a sixth to a quar­ter increase in 2014, and some are get­ting 10 and a half in 2015, the max­i­mum amounts they could get. …

The Mont­pe­lier Exempted Vil­lage Schools Board of Edu­ca­tion Tues­day evening approved the res­ig­na­tion of Jass­mine Reyes, sev­eral sup­ple­men­tal con­tracts and a res­o­lu­tion approv­ing the adop­tion of an alter­na­tive make-up plan for calamity days. The board then went into exec­u­tive ses­sion, with no action taken.

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. …