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Unem­ploy­ment in the six-county area, accord­ing to fig­ures just released by the Ohio Depart­ment of Job and Fam­ily Ser­vice, remained mostly unchanged from Octo­ber to Novem­ber. All of the local coun­ties had unem­ploy­ment rates below both the national and state rates of 5.5 per­cent and 4.5 per­cent respec­tively. The high­est …

Bryan Police were called out ear­lier this week to a two-vehicle acci­dent. They say hap­pened around 9:21 a.m. Tues­day at the inter­sec­tion of Main and Wil­son streets in Bryan. As the inves­ti­ga­tion is con­tin­u­ing, now Bryan Police are ask­ing for your help so they can fig­ure out just what hap­pened. …

An inmate at the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio died after arriv­ing at a hos­pi­tal emer­gency room early Teus­day morn­ing. 26 year old Stephen Aaron Sar­gent of Toledo, was pro­nounced dead at 6:50 a.m. yes­ter­day at Com­mu­nity Hos­pi­tal of Williams County in Bryan. He had been taken by ambu­lance from …

Could we see a white Christ­mas? Well, accord­ing to the National weather ser­vice, the odds are slightly in our favor. The National Weather Ser­vice, as of Tues­day, was pre­dict­ing about a 60 per­cent chance of some snow for Christ­mas, but it all depends on how sev­eral storm sys­tems mov­ing across …

Although time is run­ning short, as long as they can round up enough signs to make it hap­pen, Defi­ance city offi­cials plan to imple­ment the new one-way traf­fic pat­tern for Fort Street and Wash­ing­ton Avenue, north of Sec­ond Street, by the end of this year. The Cres­cent News reports that …

In Mont­pe­lier on Mon­day, vil­lage coun­cil mem­bers dis­cussed whether golf carts should legally be con­sid­ered a dis­abil­ity vehi­cle. Vil­lage Legal Coun­cil Chris Walker said golf carts that may be dis­al­lowed on streets because of being con­sid­ered unsafe, but that rea­son­able accom­mo­da­tions must be made for those with dis­abil­i­ties. No action …

Williams County com­mis­sion­ers met on Mon­day, and there was some spir­ited dis­cus­sion between the sher­iff and the com­mis­sion­ers. While the com­mis­sion­ers called it a “philo­soph­i­cal dif­fer­ence” Sher­iff Steve Towns says it’s the com­mis­sion­ers’ way of “manip­u­lat­ing” his depart­ment. The dis­agree­ment cen­ters on the com­mis­sion­ers refusal to increase the sheriff’s bud­get …

Bryan Police were busy over the week­end… On Sat­ur­day, police arrested 65 year old William Robert­son, Jr of East High Street in Bryan on a charge of dis­or­derly con­duct. He was then released. Sev­eral arrests on Sun­day, include that of 25 year old Andrew Robers of Fayet­teville, Ten­nessee who was …

Napoleon Police report a num­ber of com­plaints recently con­cern­ing coun­ter­feit cur­rency in Napoleon. Most of the funny money has so far been reported in the form of $20 bills, and police say each of the iden­ti­fied bills has had sim­i­lar or iden­ti­cal ser­ial num­bers. Police also say how­ever, some fake …

In Defi­ance, police have now released the names of those con­nected to the alleged “ille­gal casi­nos” that were raided last Thurs­day. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, Mar­vin Dabish, Robert Dabish and Nadia Dabish, all of Ore­gon, are the alleged own­ers and oper­a­tors of the Talk-N-Win Inter­net cafe in North­towne Mall. …