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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 …

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 …