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If you’re going to have a fire in your home, it’s most likely going to come from unat­tended cook­ing. That’s the word from recent analy­sis of fire deaths and injuries in Ohio. Bryan Assis­tant Fire Chief Dou­glas Pool told the Bryan Times there’s a sec­ond com­mon cause of fires. Elec­tri­cal …

Ama­zon is mov­ing for­ward with plans to build a wind farm in Put­nam County, to make elec­tric­ity that will power their com­pany in Ohio. The plan to build 48 new wind tur­bines is slated to begin this spring, and all are expected to be oper­at­ing by early next year. The …

Ten peo­ple have expressed inter­ested and sub­mit­ted their names for con­sid­er­a­tion in fill­ing a Defi­ance City Coun­cil seat that will become vacant next week. At-large Coun­cil­man Mike Ketcham plans to give up his at-large seat to become coun­cil pres­i­dent on Tues­day. He will replace Mike McCann, who was elected mayor …

The Mont­pe­lier Police Chief is warn­ing dri­vers that a two white males have made three traf­fic stops in Fort Wayne, imper­son­at­ing law enforce­ment in an unmarked car. They were “clean cut and preppy” and one wit­ness said they appeared intox­i­cated and iden­ti­fied them­selves as CIA. Dur­ing one inci­dent, the men …

Michi­gan State Police have made two arrests fol­low­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion into alleged crim­i­nal sex­ual con­duct and extor­tion. A third sus­pect is the sub­ject of a search. State Police said in a release yes­ter­day that the case goes back at least eight years. The alleged crimes took place in Branch County’s …

One arrest by the Williams County Sher­iffs Dept. 28-year-old Bianca Trevino of Bryan was arrested on New Years Eve morn­ing on a felony war­rant out of North Dakota. The warrant’s orig­i­nal charges were ter­ror­iz­ing and sim­ple assault.

The Pauld­ing County Wall of Honor at the cour­t­house has a new name. Ran­dall Smith, a Pauld­ing native, died last July from injuries he received dur­ing a domes­tic ter­ror­ist attack on the Navy Oper­a­tions Sup­port Cen­ter in Chat­tanooga. His name will be placed under a new cat­e­gory: Global War on …

Par­ents of prospec­tive col­lege stu­dents can learn about Finan­cial Aid at a work­shop next Wednes­day, Jan­u­ary 6th. The Defi­ance County Coun­selors Asso­ci­a­tion hosts the annual pro­gram to help par­ents and stu­dents under­stand how to apply for finan­cial aid through FAFSA… the Free Appli­ca­tion for Fed­eral Stu­dent Aid, which helps fam­i­lies …

On this New Year’s Eve, a reminder that city offices will be closed tomor­row. Trash pickup for tomor­row will be moved to Tues­day, Jan. 5.

You may see Con­ti­nen­tal Fire Department’s new fire truck on your trav­els. The new pumper cost almost a quar­ter of a mil­lion dol­lars and holds 3,000 gal­lons of water.