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In Angola, inves­ti­ga­tors say it was a portable heater used to thaw frozen pipes that sparked a fire Mon­day morn­ing at Jim­mer­son Lake. The fire started under a trailer, and quickly spread to the entire struc­ture, caus­ing an esti­mated $2,000 in dam­ages. Nobody was hurt. The Angola Fire Depart­ment was …

A third and final read­ing of leg­is­la­tion that would have removed pit bulls’ “vicious” label from the city code in Wauseon, was never held dur­ing Mon­day night’s coun­cil meet­ing, after it was dis­cov­ered the mea­sure hadn’t actu­ally passed on sec­ond read­ing. The over­sight, accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, was due …

In another sign of chang­ing times, The Bryan Times will soon mark the end of an era. It was announced on Tues­day, that the press room and mail room at The Bryan Times will soon be shut­ting down, and all print­ing oper­a­tions will be trans­ferred to Fort Wayne, Ind. Accord­ing …

It seems this arc­tic blast is affect­ing every­thing… Now, it is affect­ing a steak din­ner. That’s right, there will be no steak sup­per this month at the McClure United Methodist Church. The church has told us that they have can­celled the monthly baked steak sup­per, that was sched­uled for Fri­day, …

Ques­tions are swirling around the future, or lack of a future, of the Williams County DARE pro­gram due to fund­ing issues. The pro­gram is oper­ated through the Williams County Sheriff’s Office, which now reports a short­age of future fund­ing from the Williams County com­mis­sion­ers office. The Cres­cent News reports that …

Bryan Police report the arrest on Mon­day of a Bryan man. Police say they pulled over 35 year old Corey Perez of East Perry Street in Bryan and then charged him with OVI, vio­la­tion of the open con­tainer law, and fail­ure to con­trol his vehi­cle. Perez is free for now… …

Williams County fire­fight­ers were called out to a house fire in Mont­pe­lier Fri­day morn­ing. It hap­pened at the Rory Mer­cer home on East Main Street around 7:30 Fri­day morn­ing. Inves­ti­ga­tors say it appears that the fire started on the sec­ond floor of the home, and all those liv­ing there were …

At about mid­night on Fri­day, the Bryan Fire Depart­ment was called to a res­i­den­tial fire at a duplex at 304 Cen­ter St. in Bryan. One occu­pant with seri­ous injuries was taken to St. Vin­cent Med­ical Cen­ter while six oth­ers made it out safely. Assist­ing the Bryan Fire Depart­ment in the …

Bryan city lead­ers are prepar­ing an 80-acre piece of vacant land for what they say will become the city’s sec­ond indus­trial park. The Bryan Times reports that the prop­erty just east of Ohio 15 will be devel­oped into four 20-acre lots, which will come com­plete with munic­i­pal elec­tric, water, com­mu­ni­ca­tions, …

A man from Defi­ance was killed Sat­ur­day after­noon in a crash on Ohio 111 in Defi­ance County. The Ohio High­way Patrol say 78 year old Fred Justinger lost con­trol of his vehi­cle just north of Ham­mer­smith Road, at about 1:20 p.m., went off the road, trav­eled down an embank­ment, and …