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Flames broke out over the week­end in an Angola garage that was attached to a home on West Loon Lake Road. It hap­pened Sat­ur­day after­noon. For­tu­nately, the door between the breeze­way of the home and the garage was closed, which fire­fight­ers say pre­vented the flames from spread­ing into the house, …

Bryan Police, early Sun­day morn­ing, arrested 35 year old Erik Flinn of South Williams Street on a bench war­rant out of Williams County Court for fail­ing to appear. He was locked up in CCNO. Last evening, Bryan Police nabbed Troy York of Toledo, on a bench war­rant out of Bryan …

The win­ter weather has left one per­son dead fol­low­ing a crash in our area. Blow­ing and drift­ing snow Sat­ur­day morn­ing resulted in a chain-reaction crash on Ohio 576, between County Road H and County Road I. Then, about an hour later, just before 11:30 Sat­ur­day morn­ing, a crash on the …

An eight-member jury in Defi­ance County on Fri­day, fol­low­ing a three day trial, decided that the sur­viv­ing spouse of a for­mer employee at Defiance’s Gen­eral Motors plant is enti­tled to ben­e­fits through the state’s work­ers com­pen­sa­tion pro­gram. In the suit, which was filed back in 2009 by Loretta Bryant of …

A Bryan busi­ness owner says he’s afraid of get­ting a bad rap for the actions of oth­ers that he had no con­trol over. Patrick Pesse­fall took the old “M.O.D.E.L. Com­mu­nity School for Stu­dents with Autism” sign off his store front Thurs­day morn­ing. The Bryan Times reports that Pesse­fall owns the …

A jury trial that began Wednes­day in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court, is expected to con­tinue today. It con­cerns a woman’s claim that asbestos expo­sure at Defiance’s Gen­eral Motors plant caused the death of her hus­band, who worked there. Loretta Bryant of Defi­ance, filed the law­suit in 2009, after the …

The Ohio High­way Patrol says two pickup trucks and another vehi­cle were involved in a crash Thurs­day morn­ing. IT hap­pened just before 8:30 yes­ter­day morn­ing on Ohio 34, just west of County Road 18. Traf­fic in that area was lim­ited to one lane while crews worked to clear the mess, …

Four more peo­ple have been arraigned in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court on drug charges fol­low­ing their arrests on Mon­day. The four are part of the 27 peo­ple who were arrested recently in the case. Plead­ing not guilty to the charges on Tues­day were: 40 year old Bethany Ballew; 31 …

It was back on Jan­u­ary 22, when a search war­rant was exe­cuted at an apart­ment on West High Street in Bryan, and three peo­ple were arrested on drug charges. Now, not even a month later, offi­cers returned on Tues­day evening with another war­rant and three more peo­ple were taken into …

A project aimed at the clean up of the Pow­ell Creek water­shed in Defi­ance and Put­nam coun­ties has been extended until June. The Cres­cent News reports today that the Pow­ell Creek nutri­ent reduc­tion project was sched­uled to last two years, but now has been extended to June 30. The pro­gram …