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One person is hurt after a solo crash on County Road K near West Unity. Officials say the driver lost control of a tree-planting truck and struck a bridge abutment. The rig fell into the creek bed and burst into flames. The Brady Township Fire Department responded and remained on …

Crews in Montpelier take on a structure fire at a Magda Drive business. Fire officials say damage is light at the Rassini Chassis Systems Shop. No word on how the blaze may have started. No one was hurt.

Williams County deputies are looking for a familiar face. Stephanie Funkhouser was indicted by a grand jury on Jan. 23 and charged with first- and second-degree felony complicity. Prosecutors say she allegedly aided another suspect in an attempted robbery that ended in an assault at an area residence. She has …

The Indiana Department of Education is planning to seek damages against a testing vendor for scoring issues and a delay in results for the state’s primary standardized test. Results for the Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress-Plus were supposed to be publicly released Wednesday.

Admission to most Indiana’s State Parks and State Forest recreation areas, where entrance fees are charged, will be free on Sept. 22…this, in recognition of National Public Lands Day…the nation’s largest single-day volunteer effort for public lands.

It’s hard to believe it’s been 17 years since 9/11. To commemorate, Defiance County firemen are holding their seventh annual Tribute to Towers Defiance Run and Walk, Saturday morning. The opening ceremony will get underway at 8:30 a.m. at the Eagles Aerie 372 parking lot along Jackson Avenue.

A car fire closes the Carpenter Road overpass on Highway 24. The driver of the vehicle, Edward Pursel of Bryan was driving when the vehicle he was in broke down. That’s when the fire started. Pursel is okay. 24 was closed in both directions, between Ohio 66 and Domersville Road …

A vehicle crashes into a train and ends up on its top in Woodburn. Responders were sent to Woodburn at Sampson. There, they find the car, upside down, next to a train crossing, notorious for not having the typical set of railroad crossing equipment. Instead, only a yield sign and …

A Fayette man dies in a motorcycle crash in Gorham Township. The Highway Patrol says Christopher Litwiller was northbound on County Road 20, south of Highway 20, when his motorcycle went off the left side of the roadway…hitting a ditch and overturning in a field. Litwiller was ejected from the …

We are learning more on the shooting death of a man last Friday in Bryan. Investigators tell reporters Richard Richards may have entered the wrong home on East Bryan Street. They say Richards was confronted by the resident. Apparently Richards wouldn’t leave. The homeowner produced a gun and shot Richards, …