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A 29-year-old Defi­ance woman was sent to prison on Fri­day for drug charges. Char­lotte Holt was sen­tenced to 54 months in prison on felony charges related to meth and endan­ger­ing chil­dren. A co-defendant was sen­tenced last Octo­ber to 8 years for his role. Shawn Clevinger was con­victed of four felony …

Defi­ance County Sher­iff has charged two men in a rob­bery last week in Sher­wood. 19-year-old Damon Cores­sel and 26-year-old Dequa­vis Far­ris are charged with rob­bery and now in the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio. They have a court date this morn­ing in Defi­ance Munic­i­pal Court. The men were arrested after …

The 8th annual March for Life was held in Defi­ance on Fri­day, with a large crowd gath­ered at the Defi­ance County Cour­t­house. The local March is held to coin­cide with the anniver­sary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court deci­sion in 1973 that made abor­tion legal in the states.

Nearly 9,500 flights were can­celed nation­wide over the week­end, while much of the east­ern US and Mid-Atlantic states were buried in up to 3 feet of snow. Travel delays are expected today, so check with your air­line if you’re fly­ing today.

Gas prices con­tinue to fall or stay low. Check­ing this morn­ing, it’s $1.57 at the Cir­cle K on S. Main at South St. Prices con­tinue to fall, due to great sup­ply. Ohio is in the top five low­est price states, at $1.56 a gal­lon, right along side Indi­ana. Cal­i­for­nia is …

New infor­ma­tion released by the City of Napoleon states that for­mer coun­cil­man Jef­frey Mar­i­hugh was being inves­ti­gated for sex­ual harass­ment reported by three city employ­ees in Novem­ber. The com­plaints were inves­ti­gated, accord­ing to the city, and they say Mar­i­hugh admit­ted mak­ing “off color” remarks. He resigned after the coun­cil pres­i­dent …

It’s being called the worst drug epi­demic of our life­times. The Ohio Depart­ment of Health has released num­bers for 2014, show­ing it was one of the dead­liest years in the state for unin­ten­tional drug over­doses lead­ing to death. The 2015 data has not been released. The new num­bers show in …

Flu shots are still avail­able in Williams County at the Health Depart­ment. Accord­ing to the direc­tor of Nurs­ing, the flu hasn’t peaked yet this sea­son. Becky Sny­der says the vac­cine takes a cou­ple of weeks to become effec­tive, so the sooner the better.

The annual Bryan Area Cham­ber of Com­merce ban­quet is this Thurs­day, and a new pres­i­dent will take over. Russ Davies will be intro­duced and speak about what they Chamber’s goals are for 2016. Doors open at 5 p.m. and the pro­gram starts at 7 p.m. It’ll be held in the …

Across Ohio, Bryan is one of the top 20 cities with the low­est renters insur­ance costs. The research web­site ValuePenguin.com says ranks Bryan at 14th in the Buck­eye State for renters insur­ance. The annual rate aver­ages at less than $300 a year. The low cost is attrib­ut­able to low crime, …