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If you know of some­one who’s made a dif­fer­ence, North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Foun­da­tion is look­ing for them. They’re accept­ing nom­i­na­tions for next year’s Mak­ing A Dif­fer­ence Award, given to an indi­vid­ual, a busi­ness and orga­ni­za­tion. The cer­e­mony is in May. Nom­i­na­tion forms are online at NorthwestState.edu. They are due …

Gas prices are as low as 2.21 a gal­lon in Bryan this morn­ing. That’s down about a nickel from last week, and down about 60 cents from a year ago. Ana­lysts at Triple A say good sup­ply should keep gas prices low for the Thanks­giv­ing travel season.

A Toledo funeral home direc­tor has lost his license and pleaded no con­test to abuse of a corpse charges. Robert Tate was found guilty yes­ter­day in Lucas County Com­mon Pleas Court. Police raided the Tate Funeral Home in May, find­ing sev­eral bod­ies that were not embalmed and severely decom­posed. His …

In Pauld­ing County, there’s a new Drug Court, set up to help lower-level, non­vi­o­lent felony offend­ers with drug or alco­hol issues. The first court was in late Octo­ber, and its goal, said Judge Tiffany Beck­man, is for par­tic­i­pants to defeat their addic­tion and become con­tribut­ing mem­bers of soci­ety. The three …

The State of Ohio’s “pay for stay” pro­gram for jail inmates has col­lected more than a half a mil­lion dol­lars in the past five years. The Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio reported yes­ter­day that money goes back to the juris­dic­tions that use the pro­gram. Those inmates who are con­victed of …

An air­man with local ties in Bryan has been hon­ored as one of the top 40 young mem­bers of the USmil­i­tary by Civil­ian Jobs, an online mil­i­tary job site. 29 year old Seth Michael is a senior air­man in the Air Force. He’s sta­tioned in Florida as a reservist and …

A man from Penn­syl­va­nia was arrested for pos­ses­sion of heroin by Williams County deputies after he was found over­dosed in a room at the Qual­ity Inn in Hol­i­day City. 39 year old Joshua D. Dean of State Col­lege, Penn­syl­va­nia, was revived with Nar­can, and then he was arrested at about …

It took four days of trial, but on Thurs­day it was all over for an Arch­bold man who was found guilty yes­ter­day in Ful­ton County Court, of invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter and domes­tic vio­lence. The ver­dicts were returned by the jury against Romualdo Cor­doba Jr after about four hours of delib­er­a­tion. Cor­doba …

A Mont­pe­lier man who is a sus­pect in a Williams County mur­der inves­ti­ga­tion was ordered on Thurs­day after­noon, to be held on a $2 mil­lion bond dur­ing his ini­tial appear­ance in Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. 22-year-old Bradly Gilbert waived extra­di­tion last week in Surry County, North Car­olina where he was arrested …

As win­ter gets closer and closer, the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion garage in Mont­pe­lier this year, plans to use some inno­v­a­tive new approaches this year. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, cal­cium chlo­ride will be deployed from one of the district’s 14 trucks if it gets really cold out­side and the …