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The Defi­ance County Sheriff’s Office is look­ing for two indi­vid­u­als who have active war­rants for their arrest. The first is Ruben Bena­vides, last known liv­ing in Hicksville. He has an active war­rant for pro­ba­tion vio­la­tion. Next is Pamela Graves from Defi­ance. Deputies are look­ing for her for vio­lat­ing her pro­ba­tion. …

A fatal crash on U.S. 24 had high­way traf­fic closed for three hours yes­ter­day and a local man lost his life. Troop­ers with the Ohio High­way Patrol say 63-year-old Joe Sali­nas of Leip­sic went the wrong way on 24 and hit a semi head on just before 3 p.m. Sali­nas …

OSHA has cited Bryan Pack­ag­ing for ten seri­ous vio­la­tions of worker safety. The E. Perry St. com­pany was fined $25,200 after an inspec­tion of their Bryan oper­a­tion. The fines were mainly safety vio­la­tions that could result in worker injury, such as “lockout/tagout” vio­la­tions. The com­pany is part of Pro-Pak Indus­tries …

Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers are con­sid­er­ing hir­ing an IT pro­fes­sional to help man­age the county’s data. At the meet­ing on Tues­day, the county recorder told the com­mis­sion that they are run­ning out of stor­age space on the servers and a short term fix is to delete dupli­cate files. The com­mis­sion said …

A per­son of inter­est in an Indi­ana dou­ble mur­der was arrested on the Ohio Turn­pike after his car ran out of gas. 44-year-old James Lohnes is from Crown Point, Indi­ana was arrested for OVI on Sat­ur­day night about 11 p.m. While wait­ing for his arraign­ment, the Williams County Sher­iff got …

Bryan City Coun­cil wants to raise sewer charges by $7.50 per ser­vice unit. Last night they approved the first read­ing for the leg­is­la­tion. The rate increase will help pay for nec­es­sary work at the waste­water treat­ment plant. It’s expected to gen­er­ate nearly $3 mil­lion over the next seven years. Part …

A blood drive is com­ing up in Henry County tomor­row. It’ll be at Camp Wide­wa­ter in Lib­erty Cen­ter from 1 p.m to 6 p.m. and walk-ins are wel­come. Call the Red Cross for more infor­ma­tion or to make an appoint­ment. 800-RED-CROSS.

The risk of Ohioans fac­ing an F5 tor­nado is real, and now Ohioans can apply to get up to 75 per­cent of the cost of a safe room paid for by the state. The pro­gram by the Ohio Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency is now tak­ing appli­ca­tions. The rebate allows for the …

In Ful­ton County, Job and Fam­ily Ser­vices is work­ing to help peo­ple who’ve been released from jail get a sec­ond chance. The pro­gram is Re-Entry Con­nec­tion, now a one-on-one sup­port sys­tem with a trained facil­i­ta­tor to help re-enter soci­ety after release. The pro­gram helps with finan­cial strug­gles, trans­porta­tion issues, edu­ca­tion, …

A man wanted on mul­ti­ple arrest war­rants out of DeKalb County was arrested Fri­day after a traf­fic stop. The man was a pas­sen­ger in the vehi­cle. 24-year-old Bran­don Robert­son of Auburn was arrested for hav­ing a hand­gun with­out a license, and was wanted on drug charges. He was taken into …