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Bryan Municipal Utilities customers will be happy when their bandwidth improves. BMU has been approved to replace a circuit to provide more bandwidth for less money. Officials say it’ll help provide customers with the internet speeds they require, and giving BMU almost twice the capacity while saving almost $1,600. less …

More drug busts, this time in Ottawa. A search warrant executed by the Multi-Area Narcotics Task Force and Ottawa Police found heroin paraphernalia and materials to make meth. No arrests were made and police continue to investigate. The search warrant was for 1265 N. Defiance Street.

Park Layne residents at the city council meeting in Napoleon expressed their frustrations this week about the city policy for sidewalks. The policy states residents pay for the installation of sidewalks if none exist during a reconstruction project. The city will reexamine the policy and said they’d consider one residents …

Authorities won’t charge a police cadet who shot another recruit accidentally at a firing range last month. After an investiagion, the Henry County Sheriff’s office says cadet Casey Huepenbecker unintentionally discharged his 9mm handgun on April 5, striking a fellow cadet. The accidental shooting occurred about 8 p.m. during a …

A 17-year-old Swanton boy was killed early Tuesday morning after a police chase ended in a crash. It began about 1:30 a.m. near Woodward High School. Toledo police say they tried to pull the car over for a traffic violation, but the 17-year-old driver sped off. The chase went through …

A local doctor suing Paulding Hospital in a contract dispute. Dr. James H. Gray wants a declaratory judgment in Common Pleas Court, and monetary damages of $25,000, he wants out of his non-compete clause and wants the building he says he owns in Antwerp to be vacated by the hospital. …

In Edgerton, the fiscal officer for the village has been named interim village administrator. Dawn Fitzcharles was unanimously voted in by the Village Council. Mayor Lance Bowsher says the village will start advertising to fill the job permanently. He told the Bryan Times that they want to ensure they get …

Montpelier Police Chief Dan McGee says he doesn’t know why people are driving on Main Street in his city. It’s closed for repaving work. Two 18-year-olds were arrested on Saturday after the driver, Alex Zuber, was accused of drunk driving on Main. His passenger, Dillion Gyurnek has also arrested, charged …

Two people were injured Saturday morning in a Williams County Crash. The Ohio Highway Patrol says it happened at 6:45 a.m. on US 127 at County Road M-50 in Brady Township. Driver Mike Hope of Alvordton was turning east onto M-50 when his Chevy was struck by a southbound commercial …

Here are the results of the latest traffic enforcement blitz in April over two weekends, called an April prom blitz. According to Fulton County Sheriff Roy Miller, deputies made 31 traffic stops and issued eight citations. The blitz ran in conjunction with the Pettisville and Fayette high school proms. The …