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Some cuts are com­ing to Titan Tire in Bryan. The com­pany told work­ers they’ll cut oper­a­tions from three shifts to one. That is expected to elim­i­nate half of the cur­rent work­force of 180 employees. Work­ers are wait­ing to hear on Fri­day the num­ber of peo­ple who’ll be laid off, and …

Despite com­plaints from hunters that the num­ber of deer appears down this year, The Ohio Depart­ment of Nat­ural Resources put out some num­bers yes­ter­day that showed more deer were checked in area coun­ties so far this year than last. On open­ing day, hunters checked 22,256 white-tailed deer. The deer-gun sea­son …

Two of Defiance’s top city offi­cials will stay on with the approval of the next mayor. On Tues­day, coun­cil dis­cussed con­tract renewals for admin­is­tra­tor Jeff Leonard, and law direc­tor David Williams. Cur­rent Mayor Bob Arm­strong told the coun­cil that he and incom­ing Mayor Mike McCann, who won a four-year term …

The Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio may be get­ting state offend­ers and a grant pro­gram will pay the facil­ity to house them. Offi­cials at CCNO will purse the grant which would open 20 beds for longer term inmates. As for the Pay-for-Stay pro­gram, which has been in place for five …

A Pauld­ing man accused of rob­bing the Speed­way in Defi­ance on N. Clin­ton St. was arrested and charged Tues­day in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court. 26-year-old John Gos­nell was charged with felony aggra­vated rob­bery with a firearm. He allegedly stole cash on Novem­ber 14th and fled on foot. He’s being …

If you’ve ever won­dered if tech­nol­ogy could make your life eas­ier, like remind­ing you to take your med­ica­tion, brush your teeth or some­thing more sophis­ti­cated, like a flame­less stove that doesn’t heat any­thing put the pan, mak­ing fires a thing of the past. You can see some of these tech­no­log­i­cal break­throughs …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Depart­ment new K-9 offi­cer has bro­ken the ice and started his new job with the depart­ment. You may see Offi­cer Jango rid­ing shot­gun with his human han­dler Deputy Jason Ran­dal. Ran­dal says the dog is barely a year old. Seems the Sher­iff hasn’t bonded much with …

A 33-year-old Mont­pe­lier man crashed yes­ter­day morn­ing and the Sheriff’s Depart­ment say the man was intox­i­cated. Jimenez Sanchez crashed into a util­ity pole and his car landed on it’s top at County Road P50 and 8. He left the scene but vol­un­tar­ily returned. Sanchez was arrested and charged withOVI. He …

If you’re plan­ning to be on the high­ways this week­end, The Ohio State Patrol will be focus­ing on drunk dri­vers and other impaired dri­vers. OSP is join­ing other mem­bers of the 6-State Trooper Project and will tighten enforce­ment from this Fri­day at mid­night through Sun­day night at mid­night. They tell …

A Napoleon man found guilty of invol­un­tary manslaugh­ter in Octo­ber was sent to prison yes­ter­day. 19 year old Justin Dou­ble got 30 months. He was charged after he got into an alter­ca­tion with 19 year old Jonathon Smart, also of Napoleon, over miss­ing mar­i­juana. Dou­ble pushed the man and he …