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The Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties online pay­ment sys­tem is back up and run­ning after a week of inter­mit­tent out­ages. Bryan City Clerk Laura Rode told the Bryan Times that the issues have not had much of an impact on cus­tomers abil­ity to pay their util­ity bills, because the prob­lems were off …

Now in news that affects your wal­let, Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers say the pri­or­ity this year is to reduce the county’s debt. The bulk of the debt stems from the con­struc­tion for the county’s East Annex office build­ing at 1425 E. High St. In other devel­op­ments, a Delphos con­struc­tion com­pany won …

Now to Hicksville, where the dri­ver of a pickup that went off the road and hit a tree was trans­ported to the hos­pi­tal Sun­day afternoon. In Defi­ance County, The Ohio State High­way Patrol says 43-year-old Scot Elwood was dri­ving north on Casebeer-Miller Rd. about 4:15 p.m. when his truck went …

An Angola man took a plea deal with pros­e­cu­tors yes­ter­day in Steuben Supe­rior court for his actions in a police pur­suit last February. 27-year-old Keith Allen Cobb was given an 11 year sen­tence after he entered a guilty plea to felony for Pos­ses­sion With Intent to Deliver Methamphetamine. In exchange …

Just across the bor­der in Water­loo, Indi­ana, a man involved in a traf­fic crash on Sat­ur­day night was arrested Sun­day after the county sher­iff fol­lowed up on the crash at his home and found pot grow­ing in the man’s home. Deputies arrested Paulus Gene Sheets on six felony counts. Deputies …

As we get back to a nor­mal work sched­ule, we’re check­ing gas prices on this Mon­day. It’s still below $2 a gal­lon in Ohio. You can fill up at the Valero at S. Union and E. Maple in Bryan for $1.75 a gal­lon. And even more good news today. Bar­ring …

Leever Glass is stay­ing, but the name­sake, Joe Leever, is retir­ing. He told the Cresent-News that after 50 years, he’s ready for phase two of his life, and sold his part of the com­pany to his part­ner for the last 23 years, Toby Nagel. Nagel is keep­ing the long­time Leever …

In Wauseon on Fri­day, a sin­gle SUV crash killed a dri­ver and seri­ously injured her pas­sen­ger. The vic­tim is iden­ti­fied as 42-year-old Irene Saurez of Wauseon. She crashed on Ful­ton County Road 19 Fri­day morn­ing about 7 a.m. Her pas­sen­ger, 42-year-old Jose Ramirez also of Wauseon, was trans­ported in crit­i­cal …

While the rest of the schools in the state wres­tle with allow­ing guns in schools, Hicksville Schools has voted to allow cer­tain indi­vid­u­als to carry con­cealed weapons, and post on the school doors that they will use what­ever force is nec­es­sary to pro­tect stu­dents and staff. School lead­ers say it …

A fire in an apart­ment in Defi­ance yes­ter­day morn­ing did about $20,000 dam­age and the sec­ond floor sus­tained the most dam­age. The fire in the 1200 block of Ayersville Avenue was con­tained to the bed­room on that sec­ond floor. It was called in about 11:30 a.m. Inves­ti­ga­tors are still look­ing …