News

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 …

Bryan Police made a few arrests over the week­end. Police say they arrested 27 year old Jon Haase Jr on Sun­day on a Bench War­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. He was released after post­ing bond. Also on Sun­day, Bryan Police arrested 29 year old Rocky Reynolds of Bryan who …

A Defi­ance man lead police on an early morn­ing pur­suit through Williams and Defi­ance coun­ties on Fri­day. The high­way patrol reports that offi­cers tried to pull over a pickup truck that had been stolen in Bryan. 28 year old Tyler Kun­sman was behind the wheel when the truck was involved …

When bad weather blows in to north­west Ohio, local law enforce­ment agen­cies want you to know about it. Now, as tech­nol­ogy changes, more gov­ern­ments and munic­i­pal­i­ties are using alert noti­fi­ca­tion sys­tems to send texts directly to mobile phones. Cur­rently, the Defi­ance County Sheriff’s Office uses a sys­tem like that to …

Watch out for the lat­est com­puter scam mak­ing the rounds. Police say it works like this… The vic­tim receives a phone call say­ing their home com­puter has a virus. They are then told it can be taken care of for just $2,090. If the vic­tim agrees, the crook or crooks …

A fam­ily of eight lost their home in a week­end fire near Scott. The home belong­ing to the Rich Strunk­en­burg fam­ily in Pauld­ing County caught on fire Sun­day after­noon around 5. Now, the Cres­cent News reports that a spe­cial fund has been set up to help the fam­ily at the …

With the hol­i­day sea­son halfway over, the Ohio High­way Patrol is ask­ing dri­vers to con­tinue to buckle up and refrain from dri­ving impaired. Dur­ing this year’s five-day Christ­mas Hol­i­day report­ing period of Decem­ber 24 at 12 a.m. through Decem­ber 28 at 11:59 p.m., 10 peo­ple were killed in 10 fatal …

Two peo­ple from Bryan have been charged fol­low­ing a dog attack ear­lier this month that ended when Bryan Police shot and killed one of the dogs. Offi­cers were called out on a report of two unli­censed pit bulls run­ning loose in the area of the Amer­i­can Legion Post 284 and …