News

Angola Makes The List!

Accord­ing to the March edi­tion of Site Selec­tion Mag­a­zine, the city of Angola is one of America’s Top 100 Microp­oli­tan Cities for the year 2014. Angola Mayor Dick Hick­man read a let­ter from the Lt. Gov­er­nor dur­ing last nights City Coun­cil meet­ing, when he said that the city has moved …

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Cridersville Man Accused Of Child Rape

A Crid­er­sville man is accused of rap­ing a child in Bryan. 27 year old Justin Phipps appeared for a pre­lim­i­nary hear­ing Tues­day in Bryan Munic­i­pal Court, where it was found that there was prob­a­ble cause that Phipps com­mit­ted the crime. The case has now been bound over to the Williams …

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Gathering In Unity Friday & Saturday

In West Unity on Fri­day, it’s the begin­ning of the annual Gath­er­ing in Unity Days, run­ning Fri­day and Sat­ur­day, and fea­tur­ing antique trac­tors, trac­tor pulls, a parade, along with crafts, food and ven­dors. It’s all hap­pen­ing at Memo­r­ial Park, and is spon­sored by the West Unity Area Cham­ber of Com­merce, …

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Sex Offender Gets Two Years For Avoiding Reporting

A man who entered a guilty plea for not reg­is­ter­ing of a sex or vio­lent offender was sen­tenced to two years in prison on Mon­day in Steuben Cir­cuit Court. 35-year-old Lawrence Troup was arrested in Feb­ru­ary, when the Steuben County Sheriff’s Depart­ment deter­mined that he was not liv­ing at his …

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Williams Leaders Back On-Line Registration

At their Mon­day meet­ing, the Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers threw their sup­port behind an effort to bring online voter reg­is­tra­tion to the state of Ohio. The Bryan Times reports that Tim Monoco, a rep­re­sen­ta­tive with the Ohio Sec­re­tary of State’s office, requested that the com­mis­sion­ers send a let­ter of sup­port for …

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Truck Flips On Ohio 15/18

The Ohio High­way Patrol says it was just after 10 Mon­day morn­ing, when a semi rolled on Ohio 15/18 near Bruners­burg. Accord­ing to the acci­dent report, the truck was south­bound, when it took a curve too fast, and flipped over on it’s pas­sen­ger side. The trailer was full of rolls …

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Ashley Man Headed To Prison

An Ash­ley man was sen­tenced to four years behind bars on Mon­day in Steuben Cir­cuit Court after he entered a guilty plea to a Class C felony of Oper­at­ing a Motor Vehi­cle after a Life­time Sus­pen­sion. Arthur James Moore was charged in con­nec­tion with an inci­dent in March of 2014. …

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Attempted Robbery Reported In Defiance

An attempted rob­bery at a con­ve­nience store in Defi­ance.… It hap­pend on Thurs­day night at Keck’s Mar­ket on South Jef­fer­son Avenue, when just before 11pm, two men came in and demanded cash. Accord­ing to police, they didn’t get any, and the two then took off on foot. A Defi­ance County …

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OVI Checkpoint Recap

The Ohio State High­way Patrol oper­ated an OVI check­point in Defi­ance on Fri­day night with the assis­tance of Defi­ance City Police and the Defi­ance County Sher­iffs Office…a total of 463 vehi­cles trav­eled through the check­point and there were no no vehi­cles that were diverted for fur­ther inves­ti­ga­tion of impaired driving..There …

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Steuben Moped Crash Leaves One Man Injured

In Steuben County, a man ended up in the hos­pi­tal after he was thrown from his moped Sat­ur­day after­noon. 42 year old James Kuhn of Pleas­ant Lake was found lying in a road in Steuben County. It hap­pened on County Road 150 WEst around 5pm, when Kuhn is believed to …

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