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From antique dolls, teddy bears and doll cloth­ing to mod­ern col­lectibles, doll fur­ni­ture and acces­sories .… Founders Hall At Sauder Vil­lage will be filled with exhibitors and bustling with activ­ity on August 1 and 2 as doll lovers and col­lec­tors gather for the Doll & Teddy Bear Show and Sale. …

A Ontario man was killed in a fiery crash Mon­day morn­ing just east of Napoleon. 63 year old Djordie Miha­jlo of Win­dosor, Ontario, died when his semi went up in flames fol­low­ing a col­li­sion involv­ing four vehi­cles on U.S. 24 in Henry County. The truck dri­ven by Miha­jlo struck the …

The Multi Area Nar­cotics Unit now says sev­eral drug-related arrests were made as a result of an inves­ti­ga­tion of two recent sus­pected heroin over­doses. Last Thurs­day, 37 year old Chad­wick Wise­man of Defi­ance, was found suf­fer­ing from what appeared to be a heroin over­dose. Wise­man was treated at a local …

A woman was hit by a motor­boat while swim­ming on Lake James on Sat­ur­day. 65 year old Ruth Petitti of LaGrange was swim­ming Sat­ur­day after­noon around 2, when she was hit by a motor­boat dri­ven by 38 year old Matthew Gum­bel of Angola. Gum­bel and oth­ers told inves­ti­ga­tors that Petitti …

An agree­ment has been reached between the Defi­ance City Board of Edu­ca­tion and Defi­ance prop­erty own­ers Talmer and San­dra Hill­man con­cern­ing land just south of the Defi­ance High School cam­pus. Dur­ing a spe­cial meet­ing held yes­ter­day, a res­o­lu­tion was approved that autho­rizes a set­tle­ment of $265,000 for 4.2 acres at …

2 arrests by Williams County Sher­iffs Deputies on Sunday.….48 year old Brian Cor­mack of Delta was arrested at 1:30am Sun­day for OVI and no turn sig­nal. Cor­mack was released to a friend. In a sep­a­rate inci­dent, 57 year old Ran­dall Gor­don of Hicksville was also arrested for OVI and no …

A two-vehicle crash Fri­day morn­ing on West High Street in Bryan took the life of an Indi­ana man. 69 year old Joseph New­man of Hamil­ton Lake, was east­bound on West High Street when he was rear-ended by Paul Brown near the inter­sec­tion of Avenue A. Bryan Police say both Newman’s …

The shoot­ings in Chat­tanooga, Ten­nessee have hit home here in our area. Pauld­ing High School grad­u­ate Ran­dal Smith, a logis­tics spe­cial­ist in the US Navy, died over the week­end after he and four Marines were shot at a recruit­ing cen­ter in Chat­tanooga last Thurs­day. Smith suc­cumbed to his wounds at …

Two juve­niles who police say jumped from a mov­ing vehi­cle on State Route 120 Sun­day morn­ing, were flown to an area hos­pi­tal for treat­ment of their injuries. It hap­pened just before 7 yes­ter­day morn­ing, when the two were found lying in the road with seri­ous injuries. The Samar­i­tan Heli­copter was …

Van­dals have been active this week in Williams County. Police say at least 10 Williams County res­i­dents have dis­cov­ered over the past sev­eral days, that their mail­boxes have been tar­geted. Three such instances were reported Wednes­day morn­ing out­side of Bryan, Stryker and West Unity. The Bryan Times reports that on …