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The National Weather Ser­vice in north­ern Indi­ana has con­firmed three tor­na­does in Henry County from last week’s storm. The first tor­nado was con­firmed one mile north of Ham­ler where a barn was destroyed. The tor­nado, at 11:59 p.m. Wednes­day, was rated an EF-0 with an esti­mated wind speed of 85 …

The North­west Water Dis­trict is fac­ing a dif­fi­cult deci­sion. It may have to return a $496,000 state grant if a water plant con­tin­ues to sit idle. It the plant goes into pro­duc­tion on the other hand, the dis­trict will lose more than $28,000 per year. The $496,000 came from a …

For more than 65 years, The Bryan Jubilee has been held. This year it will return to the square on Tues­day for another five-day run. The Bryan Times reports that return­ing to the Jubilee this year after a short hia­tus is the laser light show on Fri­day and Sat­ur­day. New …

Repaving of the south half of U.S. 127 at West Unity has been delayed. ODOT says it needs to replace a 36-inch diam­e­ter drainage tile which crosses under the road near the cor­ner of 127 and U.S. 20-A. ODOT reports that the bro­ken tile has caused an under­ground sink­hole. Mean­while, …

Hicksville’s 12th annual com­mu­nity garage sale is this week­end. The sale will take place through­out the entire town today and Sat­ur­day from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Some how­ever, say they will open before 9am for the early birds. This year, about 50 are tak­ing part dur­ing the two-day period. Although the …

A man entered pleas to six felonies Thurs­day in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court, includ­ing an aggra­vated rob­bery charge. 19 year old Stephon Davis of Defi­ance pleaded guilty to aggra­vated rob­bery; and four counts of bur­glary; and no con­test to ille­gal use of a minor in nudity-oriented mate­r­ial. He already …

The Pauld­ing County Sheriff’s Office is inves­ti­gat­ing reports of bat­ter­ies being stolen out of farm trac­tors and barns in the area. Offi­cers say there is a sus­pect and vehi­cle descrip­tion in one of those thefts. The sus­pect is a white male with a heavy build, tat­toos on his neck and …

Many areas of north­west Ohio escaped seri­ous dam­age when a large line of severe thun­der­storms moved across the Mid­west, but two area coun­ties weren’t quite as lucky. Locally, the hard­est hit area was Henry County, where the county dis­patch cen­ter reported heavy dam­age in some parts of the county. Sev­eral …

A man from Cal­i­for­nia is fac­ing felony drug charges after Ohio State High­way Patrol troop­ers seized a kilo of cocaine, worth an esti­mated $84,000 fol­low­ing a traf­fic stop in Williams County. Troop­ers on Tues­day stopped a car with Wash­ing­ton plates for a traf­fic on Inter­state 80. A prob­a­ble cause search …

Bryan Police report the arrest of 23 year old Tatiana Lee of Fairview Drive in Bryan. Lee was arrested Wednes­day and charged with crim­i­nal mis­chief. After pro­cess­ing, she was released.