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The drug prob­lem in Bryan is grow­ing. To illus­trate that increas­ing prob­lem locally, lis­ten to this… Police found four meth labs in Bryan in just the past four days. On Sat­ur­day after­noon, police and fire crews responded to the 200 block of East Bryan Street when sus­pi­cious items were found …

A crash on US-24 early this morn­ing shut down part of that high­way. It hap­pened around 4:30AM at the Ohio 108 over­pass in Napoleon, chok­ing off a por­tion of east­bound U.S. 24. Napoleon Police reported that a semi flipped on its side. There were no injuries. While crews cleaned up, …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol made 690 arrests for impaired dri­ving and 391 for drug-related charges over this Fourth of July hol­i­day period. Seven peo­ple lost their lives in a total of six traf­fic crashes on state high­ways dur­ing the four-day report­ing period. The Patrol responded to 643 crashes and …

A bomb threat at the Defi­ance Wal­mart Mon­day night brought out Defi­ance Police. The threat was phoned in at 6:16 p.m. when some­one called the Wal­Mart on North Cin­ton Street in Defi­ance, say­ing that there was a bomb in the store. Wal­mart man­age­ment imme­di­ately called 911 and the Defi­ance Fire …

A com­pany from Que­bec, Canada plans to set up shop in Water­loo and cre­ate up to 85 new jobs by 2018. Techo-Bloc is a man­u­fac­turer of high-end paving stones and patio blocks. The com­pany announced on Mon­day that it plans to invest over $34 mil­lion to estab­lish its Mid­west regional …

Two were hurt in a rollover Mon­day night on I-69 near the Pok­agon (POH-KAY-GUN) State Park exit. The crash caused the north­bound side of the inter­state to be shut down for about an hour. It hap­pened just after 7:30 last night, when a Honda Accord dri­ven by 40-year-old Tim­o­thy McFellin …

A man from Jonesville, Michi­gan will have to do 180 days of an 18 month sen­tence after enter­ing a guilty plea to a felony charge of intim­i­da­tion on Mon­day in Steuben Supe­rior Court. Terry Dendy was accused of threat­en­ing to kill employ­ees of a local com­pany in a pay dis­pute …

Accord­ing to a release on Sun­day from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Depart­ment, a Hamil­ton man who had been miss­ing since last Tues­day, has been found. 32-year-old Derek Pinkham was found fol­low­ing an alert that was issued on Sat­ur­day, when author­i­ties said they believed Pinkham may have been in dan­ger because …

Another metham­phet­a­mine lab turned up over the week­end in Bryan. Bryan Police report that offi­cers were called to a home in the 200 block of East Bryan Street on Sat­ur­day after­noon after some­body noticed some­thing sus­pi­cious there. Also respond­ing were the Bryan Fire Depart­ment, along with the Multi-Area Nar­cotics Task …

The Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion plans to com­pletely replace the Clin­ton Street Bridge in Defi­ance with a new four-lane bridge. The project, accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, is sched­uled for 2019, and will com­pletely replace the exist­ing struc­ture with a bridge which will carry four lanes of traf­fic, includ­ing access …