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Police and sheriff’s deputies in Defi­ance and Henry coun­ties are get­ting ready for their annual Shop with a Cop and Deputy events. For nearly 20 years, the annual pro­gram has held the event, which pairs kids with law enforce­ment offi­cers who help them pur­chase cloth­ing. This year’s Shop with a …

Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties’ bud­get for the com­ing year will show an increase over 2014. Part of the rea­son for the increase is the num­ber of large projects planned for 2015. The 2015 bud­get is now pro­jected to be $29,997,000. That’s an increase of about $866,000 over the 2014 bud­get of …

An arrest in Bryan for dis­or­derly con­duct… Bryan Police on Tues­day evening, around 7:15, arrested 40 year old William F. John­son of N. Union St in Bryan, for Dis­or­derly Con­duct. He was released. Bryan Police have opted to with­hold any fur­ther infor­ma­tion about Johnson’s arrest.

A woman was lucky after her car crashed Mon­day morn­ing in Defi­ance on East River Drive, west of East High Street. Defi­ance Police say it hap­pened around 11:30 Mon­day morn­ing, when the woman’s vehi­cle ran off the road, hit a util­ity pole and came to rest in the trees and …

In Williams County, the open­ing day of the one-week white tail deer-gun sea­son got off to a rather slow start. Wildlife offi­cers say only 286 deer were har­vested in Williams County… almost 16 per­cent less than the 340 deer killed on open­ing day last year. Wildlife offi­cers say it’s part …

Williams County Sher­iff Steve Towns, along with Ful­ton County Sher­iff Roy Miller and Defi­ance County Sher­iff David Westrick were at the meet­ing Mon­day after­noon as Toledo Mayor M. Michael Collins and Lucas County Com­mis­sioner Pete Gerkin argued over $665.65. It all went down yes­ter­day after­noon dur­ing an exec­u­tive com­mit­tee meet­ing …

The North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Board of Trustees will hold its next reg­u­lar meet­ing on Fri­day at 1:00 p.m. at Defi­ance Regional Med­ical Cen­ter, 1200 Ral­ston Avenue, Defi­ance. Pre­ced­ing the reg­u­lar meet­ing, the board will hold a work ses­sion at the same loca­tion, begin­ning at 8:30 a.m. This is an …

Police and sheriff’s deputies in Defi­ance and Henry coun­ties are get­ting ready for their annual Shop with a Cop and Deputy events. For nearly 20 years, the annual pro­gram has held the event, which pairs kids with law enforce­ment offi­cers who help them pur­chase cloth­ing. This year’s Shop with a …

A three-vehicle pileup Sat­ur­day morn­ing on Ohio 281, in Rich­land Town­ship, Defi­ance County, has left one man crit­i­cally injured. The Ohio State High­way Patrol says it hap­pened at 3:45 a.m. Sat­ur­day, when 35 year old Ronald Nash of Napoleon, was west­bound on Ohio 281 in a Ford Tau­rus around mile …

A teenager died Sat­ur­day when he fell through ice at a Boy Scout camp near Pio­neer. 14 year old Daniel Spauld­ing of Ore­gon, Ohio fell through the ice at Camp Fron­tier Boy Scout Reser­va­tion accord­ing to the Williams County Sheriff’s Office. It hap­pened around 11 Sat­ur­day morn­ing. He was taken …