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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 …

Williams County author­i­ties have had very lit­tle to say and have released almost no infor­ma­tion over the past sev­eral days with regard to a mur­der inves­ti­ga­tion that is now under­way. Offi­cials in North Car­olina how­ever, have been more acco­mo­dat­ing. In High Point, North Car­olina, Fox 8 TV late yes­ter­day, reported …

In Williams County, author­i­ties are inves­ti­gat­ing a pos­si­ble homi­cide that has led to the arrest of one man. In Mont­pe­lier, police were alerted of a pos­si­ble homi­cide that occurred some­where along the St. Joe River Trail on Sun­day. An adult male’s body was found in the area, how­ever offi­cials are …

The boards at Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter are plan­ning to reor­ga­nize at the first of the year after their attor­ney has done research into the organization’s his­tory and reviewed their struc­ture and rec­om­mended that the cen­ter have two sep­a­rate boards as the cen­ter com­pletes plans to pri­va­tize. The move will not …

The Henry County Sher­iff today is warn­ing folks of a tele­phone scam that has been cir­cu­lat­ing the area. The caller iden­ti­fies as a rep­re­sen­ta­tive from the Inter­nal Rev­enue Ser­vice. Accord­ing to the sher­iff, the callers use intim­i­da­tion tac­tics and tell res­i­dents that money is owed in back taxes. To avoid …