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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 …

Fol­low­ing the announce­ment last week that it was fil­ing bank­ruptcy and shut­ter­ing many stores nation­wide, Radio Shack has released a list of the stores it intends to close. Included on that list is the Radio Shack at the North­towne Mall in Defi­ance. The local store is among more than 1,700 …

The Pauld­ing Vil­lage Coun­cil has voted to enter into a con­tract for phase II of the com­bined sewer over­flow project, while at the same time, it talked about the finan­cial hard­ships pre­sented by the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency. The Cres­cent News reports that Pauld­ing coun­cil has passed a res­o­lu­tion autho­riz­ing the …

A man from Indi­ana was locked behind bars, fol­low­ing an inci­dent in which he drove his vehi­cle into a Defi­ance build­ing Sun­day morn­ing. 23 year old David Good­mann was south­bound on Degler Road, when he failed to stop at Spruce Street. He slameed his SUV into a build­ing occu­pied by …

More than 25 peo­ple were rounded up and arrested on drug charges Mon­day in Defi­ance County. The arrests yes­ter­day came fol­low­ing an under­cover drug inves­ti­ga­tion that took place over the past 18-months, focus­ing mainly on pre­scrip­tion opi­ates, cocaine and mar­i­juana. The lengthy inves­ti­ga­tion ended with 31 peo­ple being charged with …