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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.

A large pat­tern of storms felt across the entire Mid­west made itself known in Williams County Wednes­day night. The National Weather Ser­vice issued thun­der­storm and tor­nado warn­ings last evening and a flash flood watch was issued to remain in effect through 8am this morn­ing. The tor­nado warn­ing was issued at …

Three Lucas County men are fac­ing felony charges fol­low­ing a brief chase on Tues­day. Accord­ing to the Ful­ton County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to an alarm at the U.S. 20 Main Stop, in Fayette where they saw a vehi­cle leav­ing the scene. The vehi­cle was stopped and three men were …

A Defi­ance man charged with set­ting a num­ber of fires in Defi­ance has entered pleas in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court. 42 year old Rod­ney Zim­mer­man of Hol­gate Ave., pleaded guilty to two counts of aggra­vated arson, each a second-degree felony; and two counts of arson, each a fourth-degree felony. …

The Williams County Engineer’s Office reports that Williams County Road D is sched­uled for clo­sure between County Road 12.50 and SR 34 (Town­line Road, City of Bryan) for the replace­ment of a Bridge Struc­ture located at 12630 CR D, over Lick Creek. The Bridge Con­struc­tion is sched­uled to begin on …

On Sun­day, June 16 Sauder Vil­lage salutes Father’s Day with free admis­sion for all dads vis­it­ing the his­toric vil­lage. Fathers, grand­fa­thers and even great-grandfathers are invited to spend a day expe­ri­enc­ing life in the past while mak­ing spe­cial mem­o­ries with their fam­ily. From noon until 4:00 p.m. fam­i­lies are encour­aged …

The Greater Hills­dale Humane Soci­ety has a cri­sis on their hands and peo­ple there hope that the orga­ni­za­tion which res­cues and shel­ters around 500 dogs and cats every year, will be able to keep its doors open. Due to an admin­is­tra­tive over­sight, the Society’s tax-exempt sta­tus has lapsed and a …

A Bryan man was killed in a one vehi­cle crash Tues­day morn­ing. The Ohio High­way Patrol says 88 year old Robert Kib­ble was south­bound on Ohio 15 near the inter­sec­tion with Ohio 249 just before 9am yes­ter­day morn­ing when he drove off the road and hit a util­ity pole. Kib­ble …

A well known area busi­ness­man is dead. The Bryan Times is report­ing that 62 year old Jim Thomp­son, founder of Thomp­son Con­struc­tion, died Mon­day at Parkview Regional Med­ical Cen­ter in Fort Wayne fol­low­ing a sud­den ill­ness. Thomp­son was born in Wauseon, grew up in West Unity and grad­u­ated from Bryan …