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Bryan Police made an arrest in con­nec­tion with a break-in. On Thurs­day, 39 year old Joshua Budd, who listed no per­ma­nent address, was taken into cus­tody by Bryan Police, who then took him directly to CCNO, where he is being held behind bars. No fur­ther infor­ma­tion was made avail­able, includ­ing …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office found itself wrapped up in a phone scam. Some­body who went by the name “Vivian Green” has been call­ing folks lately, and iden­ti­fy­ing her­self as some­one work­ing for the Williams County Sheriff’s Office, and in those calls, this woman… Vivian Green if you will, tells …

A meet­ing was held Wednes­day after­noon in Napoleon, where the Henry County Regional Water and Sewer Dis­trict went over the results of a water sup­ply study. Tom Pogge­meyer, of Pogge­meyer Design Group Inc., from Bowl­ing Green, told the group that one issue with a ground water facil­ity, may be deal­ing …

On Wednes­day evening, Bryan Police picked up 36 year old Scott Levan­doski of Bryan, on three bench war­rants out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. The orig­i­nal charge was fail­ing to file city income taxes for 2006, 2007 and 2008. He was taken to court where bond was posted and he was …

Defi­ance City Coun­cil on Tues­day night, got an update on eco­nomic devel­op­ment mat­ters, took action on two rou­tine leg­isla­tive mat­ters, and was informed that an annual parks cleanup day has been resched­uled. In the first case, it was learned that ET Rover Pipeline, which plans to spend about $4.3 bil­lion …

A Bryan man who was already in deep trou­ble with the law for past offenses, learned on Wednes­day that he will be spend­ing a long, long time behind bars. 28 year old Richard Mojica, a twice con­victed rapist, was sen­tenced Wednes­day in Williams County Court, to a total of 21 …

A bomb threat Tues­day morn­ing brought police rush­ing to the St. Mary School, on Locust Street in Edger­ton. Police are keep­ing tight lipped on just how that threat was com­mu­ni­cated, but they do say that all the stu­dents were accounted for safely, and nobody was hurt. While they say they …

A woman from Cleve­land was crit­i­cally injured in a crash Sun­day evening that hap­pened on US-20 in Williams County. It was just before 11pm Sun­day, when 26 year old Lis­beth Ortega of Cleve­land, who was north­bound, crossed the cen­ter line and slammed head-on into a south­bound vehi­cle dri­ven by 50 …

A man who has been con­victed of rape twice will be sen­tenced today in Williams County Court. 28 year old Richard Mojica Jr. of Bryan, faces the pos­si­bil­ity of as much as 21 years in prison. No mat­ter what the length of his time behind bars will be, Mojica will …

A Cooper Farms com­plex went up in flames on Sun­day, leav­ing hun­dreds of ani­mals dead. It hap­pened at the White Oak Sow Farm on Pauld­ing County Road 165. The fire was reported early Sun­day morn­ing, and when fire­fight­ers got there, they were able to con­tain it to one of the …