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The name of the vic­tim of a fatal crash last week has been released. The State High­way Patrol said Sun­day that 27 year old Cody Dou­glass of Pio­neer died in a crash Wednes­day on U.S. 20 just east of the Indi­ana state line. Dou­glass was pro­nounced dead at the scene, …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol at Defi­ance reports a two-vehicle injury crash Sun­day morn­ing on U.S. 127 just north of West Unity. Police say a car dri­ven by 78 year old Mary Ran­dall of Fayette col­lided with another vehi­cle dri­ven by 76 year old Myr­tle Vanars­dalen of West Unity. Ran­dall …

A total of $170,000 was raised by The 8th annual ProMed­ica Defi­ance Regional Hos­pi­tal Pro-Am golf tour­na­ment Fri­day at the Eagle Rock Golf Club in Defi­ance. $55,000 of that money was raised on Thurs­day evening at the Pro-Am din­ner and auc­tion. All the money raised will go to Kaitlyn’s Cot­tage …

The Defi­ance County Health Depart­ment will give immu­niza­tions at the Hicksville Com­mu­nity Center,Main Street in Hicksville, on Tues­day from 10 a.m.-noon. and from 1:30–5 p.m. For more infor­ma­tion, call the health depart­ment at 419–784-3818 or go to its web­site at www.defiancecohealth.org.

The Bryan Parks and Recre­ation Depart­ment plans to offer a basic dog obe­di­ence class for dogs 5 months and older. The class will be lim­ited to eight peo­ple along with their dogs and will be held on four con­sec­u­tive Sat­ur­days, begin­ning on Sat­ur­day, July 13. Instruc­tor Amy Sny­der will hold …

A Ful­ton County grand jury indicted nine peo­ple this week, includ­ing one per­son from Williams County. 19 year old Rus­sell L. Cain IV of Bryan was indicted on one count each of pos­ses­sion of heroin, and traf­fick­ing in heroin and attempted tam­per­ing with evi­dence. Pros­e­cu­tors allege that on June 6, …

Defi­ance County com­mis­sion­ers are sched­uled to meet today. They have a num­ber of items on the agenda. Fol­low­ing gen­eral ses­sion, the com­mis­sion­ers will be meet­ing with county eco­nomic devel­op­ment direc­tor Jerry Hayes. They also plan to dis­cuss the cour­t­house project and receive an update from the County Recorder.

Wednes­day was a big day for many area stu­dents, thanks to the gen­eros­ity of one area ser­vice orga­ni­zaion. The Bryan Kiwa­nis Club pre­sented schol­ar­ships to 2013 grad­u­ates of area high schools toward their col­lege edu­ca­tion. Accord­ing to an arti­cle in today’s Bryan Times, the recip­i­ents are shar­ing $7,500 in Kiwa­nis …

Area motor­cy­cle rid­ers are look­ing for­ward to a raf­fle and din­ner at the annual Old Timer’s Ride this Sat­ur­day. This year’s event will be the third year it’s been hosted by the Defi­ance County Senior Ser­vices. Reg­is­tra­tion will be at Integrity Defi­ance Auto Body start­ing at 11 a.m. Sat­ur­day morn­ing …

Police are turn­ing to the pub­lic for help as they search for a 15-year-old girl that has been miss­ing since Tues­day. Accord­ing to the DeKalb County Police Depart­ment, 15 year old Carol Lynn Payne has been unac­counted for since Tues­day around 9 p.m. The girl is 15-years-old, is 5’3″ and …