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A two-vehicle crash Sat­ur­day morn­ing claimed the life of two peo­ple and seri­ously injured a third. It hap­pened at 6:16 a.m. Sat­ur­day at U.S. 6 and Henry County Road 19. Killed in the crash, dri­ver 23 year old Seth McCord of Napoleon, and a pas­sen­ger in the sec­ond vehi­cle, 56 …

Police in Ohio say an inmate miss­ing from the Pauld­ing County Jail walked away from a home in the 200 block of East Hamil­ton Street in Bryan on Fri­day night while he was on a med­ical fur­lough. The Pauld­ing County Sheriff’s office says 26-year-old J. Tucker Har­man was on a …

A man was arrested Sat­ur­day morn­ing in Bryan after police say he fired a shot into the air dur­ing a dis­pute with his girl­friend. It hap­pened at 115 North Cherry Street just after 2:00am. Offi­cers found that a female res­i­dent of was attempt­ing to get into the res­i­dence where she …

Accord­ing to ODOT, part of Ohio 2 will be down to one lane this week. ODOT says the part of Ohio 2, between U.S. 6 and Ohio 576, is being reduced to one lane dur­ing pave­ment repair all this week. Work, accord­ing to the state agency, is expected to con­clude …

The Defi­ance Col­lege Board of Trustees has named Dr. Richanne C. Mankey as the college’s 19th pres­i­dent. Dr. Mankey is the first woman pres­i­dent in the 165-year his­tory of the col­lege. She will begin her pres­i­dency on cam­pus Jan. 11. Mankey suc­ceeds Mark Gor­don, who stepped down to accept the …

Williams County Sher­iff Steve Towns announced yes­ter­day that the Ohio Depart­ment of Pub­lic Safety has awarded just under $34,000 in fed­eral traf­fic safety fund­ing to his office for 2016. Based on crash data, there have been 7 fatal crashes in Williams County in 2015 and to help reduce those num­bers, …

A crash involv­ing two semis on U.S. 24 in Pauld­ing County on Wednes­day, is still under inves­ti­ga­tion by the Ohio State High­way Patrol. 42 year old Daniel Guy Jr of Toledo, one of the dri­vers, was taken to Fort Wayne by air ambu­lance where he is being treated for crit­i­cal …

A $16.77 Mil­lion 2016 oper­at­ing bud­get was approved dur­ing Wednesday’s meet­ing of the Cor­rec­tions Com­mis­sion of North­west Ohio with 9 votes in favor. Both mem­bers from the City of Toledo, as well as Williams County Sher­iff Steve Towns, abstained, and the Toledo City Law Direc­tor said while he felt it …

It now appears that the reported abduc­tion of a Cold­wa­ter woman was faked. Michi­gan State Police say the 18 year old woman called 911 Mon­day after­noon, and told them that she had been abducted while walk­ing along a road in Cold­wa­ter Town­ship. She said the man tied her up and …

A Fre­mont woman who already had a war­rant out for her arrest on three drug charges stem­ming back to inci­dents that hap­pened in Novem­ber of 2011 appeared for an ini­tial hear­ing on Tues­day. 45-year-old Kris­tine Bisel is fac­ing felony charges for Deal­ing Mar­i­juana and for Unlaw­ful Pos­ses­sion or Use of …