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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 …

A Williams County Grand Jury met Tues­day and handed down 42 indict­ments on a long list of charges. Accord­ing to the law, many of those indicted have not been arrested, and until they are, their cases are not per­mit­ted to appear pub­licly. As soon as offi­cial charges have been filed …

It’s that time again! The annual WBNO-WQCT Williams County Bliz­zard auc­tion will be held this Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 31st, start­ing at 8 a.m. This year, the ben­e­fi­ciary will be Con­quer Child­hood Can­cer Now, based in Defi­ance. More than 400 unique items will be avail­able includ­ing, but not lim­ited to: a 21-foot …

A bomb threat Tues­day, at Antwerp Local Schools, resulted in all stu­dents and per­son­nel being safety evac­u­ated from the facil­ity. The entire build­ing was searched by bomb squad offi­cers, but noth­ing was found. The all-clear was given just after 3:30 yes­ter­day after­noon. The inves­ti­ga­tion into that bomb theat yes­ter­day at …

Eight north­west Ohio hos­pi­tals have formed a part­ner­ship to pool resources and save money. Wood County Hos­pi­tal in Bowl­ing Green, Belle­vue Hos­pi­tal, Blan­chard Val­ley Health Sys­tem in Find­lay, Com­mu­nity Hos­pi­tals and Well­ness Cen­ters of Bryan, Ful­ton County Health Cen­ter in Wauseon, Henry County Hos­pi­tal in Napoleon, Magruder Memo­r­ial Hos­pi­tal in …

Mark your cal­en­dar… a change is noted in one area meet­ing. It has been announced by the Wayne Trace Local Board of Edu­ca­tion, that their reg­u­lar ses­sion meet­ing will be held on Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. This is a change from its reg­u­lar meet­ing time which is the third …

Three peo­ple have been arrested at a Bryan home on drug related charges. It was at 220 West High Street that a search war­rant turned up drug mak­ing mate­ri­als. Bayle Hill, Brook Rice and Danial Austin were all arrested. Austin was also charged with imped­ing the inves­ti­ga­tion after he allegedly …

A crash has claimed the life of a Lib­erty Cen­ter woman. It hap­pened Sun­day. 21 year old Cather­ine Lau­tar was a pas­sen­ger in a vehi­cle dri­ven by 22 year old John Davis of Delta. Davis’ vehi­cle was trav­el­ing on US-20A in Mon­clova Town­ship when it slid into an oncom­ing snow …

A drug arrest Mon­day in Bryan… 51 year old Bruce Greathouse of East Perry Street in Bryan, was arrested for Pos­ses­sion of Mar­i­juana yes­ter­day after­noon just after 6. He was released after pro­cess­ing. Bryan Police also report an acci­dent hap­pened in the Wal­mart park­ing lot, but other than say­ing that …

A local man has been arrested in Cal­i­for­nia, and charged with a sex crime. Ricky Rothen­buh­ler, a reg­is­tered sex offender, has been hunted by author­i­ties since last fall when he was indicted in Williams County for the alleged rape of a men­tally hand­i­capped girl, and for fail­ure to notify author­ites …