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On Sun­day, a Bryan man was arrested on a drug charge. Bryan Police picked up 20 year old Kyle Mur­ray of North Wal­nut St., Bryan, who was charged with pos­ses­sion of mar­i­juana. Mur­ray was processed, and then released to appear in court at a later date. On Sat­ur­day, Bryan Police …

The trial of a Defi­ance man in con­nec­tion to the death more than thirty years ago, of an Oak­wood woman has been sched­uled. 58 year old Steven Noff­singer, of Defi­ance, will go on trial the week of April 27 in Pauld­ing County Court. Noff­singer is charged with aggra­vated mur­der in …

The Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers and Sher­iff Steve Towns have appar­ently decided not to pur­sue a part­ner­ship deal between the sheriff’s office, the state of Ohio and the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion to mon­i­tor Cor­rec­tional Cen­ter of North­west Ohio pris­on­ers doing trash pickup along county roads. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, …

Last night, the Ful­ton County Sheriff’s Office, along with the Henry County Sheriff’s Office, and the Defi­ance County Sheriff’s Office, had issued a Level 3 Snow Emer­gency for all three coun­ties. That means all road­ways are closed to non-emergency per­son­nel; no one should be out on the roads unless it …

Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, we have a huge prob­lem locally with drugs. In fact, it’s more than just a prob­lem… the paper is referi­ing to it as an epi­demic, accord­ing to Williams County Sher­iff Steve Towns. Metham­phet­a­mine is report­edly a huge prob­lem locally, in spite of aggre­sive actions aimed …

A full scale inves­ti­ga­tion is under­way in Williams and Henry Coun­ties, after author­i­ties raided four busi­nesses Thurs­day. Agents with the Ohio Inves­tiga­tive Unit, along with Bryan and Mont­pe­lier police offi­cer, exe­cuted three search war­rants in what they are call­ing a joint ille­gal gam­bling inves­ti­ga­tion. The search war­rants were exe­cuted at …

A trea­sure hunter, orig­i­nally from Defi­ance, and accused of cheat­ing his investors out of their share of one of the rich­est trea­sure finds ever in U.S. his­tory — $50 mil­lion in gold bars and coins from a 19th-century ship­wreck — was cap­tured by fed­eral agents at an upscale Florida hotel …

The Henry County com­mis­sion­ers on Tues­day, awarded a bid for an air trailer. The win­ning bid was for a Black Swamp Air Trailer and the win­ning bid­der was Fire Safety Ser­vices of Huntsville. The cost… $99,105. What is an air trailer, why does the county need one, and what is …

A Ful­ton County man was taken by air to Mercy St. Vin­cent Med­ical Cen­ter in Toledo on Tues­day morn­ing, after he was crit­i­cally injured in a three-vehicle crash on I-75. 22 year old Christo­pher Hen­der­son of Arch­bold was pulling back onto the inter­state from the berm, when he was hit …

Five peo­ple have been caught up in a drug inves­ti­ga­tion in Ful­ton County that included the dis­cov­ery of an active meth lab in Defi­ance on Tues­day, and a stolen vehi­cle in Mont­pe­lier. 21 year old Schuy­lar Win­kler of Defi­ance; 19 year old Kylie Cran­son of Bryan; 28 year old Misty …