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Two Bryan men were sworn in to be mem­bers of the Williams County Regional Air­port Author­ity Board yes­ter­day. Aaron Her­man and Bert Blalock took the oath of office, admin­is­tered by County Com­mis­sion Pres­i­dent Brian Davis. The air­port board is work­ing on get­ting more fund­ing to con­tinue their recent expan­sion. The …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office is cred­it­ing state grants with help­ing reduce traf­fic fatal­i­ties and alcohol-related crashes in the county. Accord­ing to the lat­est sta­tis­tics, both were down by more than half in the last quar­ter of last year. Sher­iff Steve Towns says the grants help pay over­time for deputies …

In last Wednesday’s Power­ball, two tick­ets sold in Ohio that hit five of the num­bers and each are worth one mil­lion dol­lars. The tick­ets were sold in Goshen and Mil­ford. It’s impor­tant to check your tick­ets because you could have won other amounts!

Check­ing gas prices as we get back to work on a Mon­day, it’s now $1.79 for a gal­lon of reg­u­lar unleaded. You can find it at the Marathon or Cir­cle K on South Main in Bryan, the Valero on S. Union and the Shell on East High Street. Ana­lysts are …

Defi­ance City Hall of Fame needs more faces. Nom­i­na­tions are being accepted now to honor com­mu­nity mem­bers who make a sig­nif­i­cant impact in their cho­sen field and enhance life in Defi­ance. Nom­i­na­tions forms are avail­abe at the Defi­ance Pub­lic Library, City Hall, the Cresent-News busi­ness office and the Andrew L. …

An Arch­bold man was sen­tenced to prison Fri­day after­noon in Ful­ton County Com­mon Pleas Court for the death of Joshua McJil­ton. The judge sen­tenced 39-year-old Romualdo Cor­doba, Jr. to 14 years for the shoot­ing death last April. The vic­tim was killed when Cor­doba approached his wife’s vehi­cle behind a Wauseon …

A new win­ery is set to open in Napoleon on Sat­ur­day. The Fla­trock Win­ery and Mead­ery will hold its grand open­ing at the loca­tion at 127 West Wash­ing­ton St. begin­ning at 3 p.m., till 11 p.m. There are three sit­ting rooms, board games and the win­ery will offer sake, mead …

Inves­ti­ga­tors say a fire at a Put­nam County assisted liv­ing facil­ity was caused by a lamp. Two peo­ple were injured in the fire Wednes­day just before 1 a.m. at the Mead­ows of Leipic. They say a lamp knocked over dur­ing the night started a small trash can fire. The staff …

The dog at the cen­ter of a con­flict between a pit bull res­cue group and Ful­ton County offi­cials is over, with the dog being released to the group. The res­cue, called Pit Crew, had adopted the dog to a fam­ily in Decem­ber, but the dog bit the owner and they …

Like many play­ers of the Power­ball, when you hear the news that no one drew the right num­bers, it can dis­cour­age play­ers from check­ing their tick­ets. That would be a big mis­take. And accord­ing to Con­ti­nen­tal res­i­dent Michael Hull, that’s what he did. He put the ticket in his glove …