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The for­mer Mayor of Edger­ton, 95 year old Den­nis John­son, died Fri­day at Parkview Regional Med­ical Cen­ter in Forty Wayne. John­son served as Edgerton’s Mayor for 16 years. He was a US Navy Vet­eran of World War II and belonged to a num­ber of local civic orga­ni­za­tions, includ­ing the Edger­ton …

Bryan Police didn’t take the hol­i­day off. On Fri­day, they arrested 32 year old Jeremy Rohlof of E. But­ler St., Bryan for Dis­or­derly Con­duct. He was released. Also on Fri­day, Bryan Police took 31 year old Dustin Car­roll of Cen­ter Street in Bryan into cus­tody on charges of vio­lat­ing a …

Some 240 Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties cus­tomers will soon likely have to replace their old, obso­lete, and in many cases, dam­aged elec­tric meter bases, and make upgrades to their ser­vice to at least 200 amp ser­vice within the next year. Accord­ing to a report in the Bryan Times, the affected cus­tomers …

Kather­ine Zart­man has been named Interim Williams County Pros­e­cu­tor. Zartman’s appoint­ment comes fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of for­mer county pros­e­cu­tor Kirk Yosick, who left to take a posi­tion as gen­eral coun­cil to a pri­vate Toledo com­pany. Zart­man, who has been an assis­tant county pros­e­cu­tor since 2008, was sworn in on Thurs­day …

A Henry County man has been arrested a felony charge of rape. 31 year old Dal­ton Simon was taken into cus­tody by Henry County Sheriff’s Deputies at his home in Mal­inta, and taken to the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio, where he sits, accused of rape. Inves­ti­ga­tors say the rapes …

For many, the Fourth Of July cel­e­bra­tion includes alco­hol. That is why the Ohio State High­way Patrol will be out in full force crack­ing down on impaired dri­vers this Fourth of July week­end, which begins today. The zero-tolerance pol­icy is part of the national Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over …

The owner of a Toledo funeral home, where sev­eral bod­ies intended for cre­ma­tion were found decay­ing, had now been charged with abuse of a corpse. Robert Tate Jr., accord­ing to offi­cials on Wednes­day, was accused of treat­ing a corpse in a way that would out­rage most peo­ple. The charge is …

Flood waters on Wednes­day, con­tin­ued to recede, and the cleanup began in numer­ous areas where debris from flood­ing was left behind. Many peo­ple and offi­cials are now assess­ing dam­age. Both Pauld­ing and Henry coun­ties declared dis­as­ter areas because of flood­ing. The National Weather Ser­vice says that more than eight inches …

A dis­pute in Steuben County between the Com­mis­sion­ers and the County Humane Shel­ter… Com­mis­sion­ers took no action on a pro­posed con­tract with the Humane Soci­ety on June 15th over sev­eral con­cerns. The biggest stick­ing point… who in the county should get ser­vice from the Humane Soci­ety? The Soci­ety had agreed …

An inci­dent that halted traf­fic on the Indi­ana Toll Road in Lagrange County early yes­ter­day morn­ing, for­tu­nately ended peace­fully. Traf­fic was backed up Tues­day morn­ing, on the east­bound lanes of the high­way, when a man who police say may have men­tal health issues, report­edly doused him­self with gaso­line and threat­ened …