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A Bryan man will be arraigned on Tues­day morn­ing on charges related to his alleged rape of a six year old girl. 40 year old William John­son JR, has a his­tory of vio­lent crimes. John­son is accused of rap­ing the young girl on or about April 12. The girl’s name …

A Stryker man is accused of hold­ing a woman against her will and assault­ing her with a knife. Accord­ing to Williams County Pros­e­cu­tor Kirk Yosick, 23 year old Jochua Small­wood, on April 10, kept a woman con­fined to a home and would not allow her to leave. Small­wood allegedly also …

Well, that didn’t last long… The open­ing day of the aggra­vated mur­der trial of Steven Noff­singer of Defi­ance was cut short after addi­tional infor­ma­tion was dis­cov­ered. The trial of the 59 year old Noff­isinger was con­tin­ued on Tues­day fol­low­ing tes­ti­mony from a for­mer Pauld­ing County Sheriff’s deputy, which turned up …

Defi­ance Col­lege will hold com­mence­ment cer­e­monies for 219 grad­u­ates on Sun­day. The cer­e­mony will begin at noon in front of Pil­grim Library. Guest speaker for com­mence­ment will be Laura Cald­well, a dis­tin­guished scholar in res­i­dence at Loy­ola Uni­ver­sity Chicago School of Law, where she founded Life After Inno­cence, a project …

Low clear­ance warn­ings below two CSX Rail­road viaducts in Defi­ance were finally work­ing as intended, but now one of them has been removed until a new loca­tion for it is found. In all, four of the new signs were installed ear­lier this year. The prob­lem quickly became appar­ent, when the …

Williams County is step­ping up efforts to col­lect delin­quent prop­erty taxes. The Bryan Times reports today, that Williams County has set a dead­line of May 29 for those with delin­quent prop­erty tax bills to either pay up in full, or set up a pay­ment plan. Those who fail to meet …

Three peo­ple were injured in a one-vehicle crash Sun­day after­noon. It hap­pened on a curve at Henry County Roads 16C and 17, when a vehi­cle dri­ven by 27 year old Ashli Han­son of Napoleon lost con­trol, hit some signs, and then ran into a guardrail, which cause the car to …

On Mon­day, a jury was finally cho­sen for the mur­der trial of Steven Noff­singer in Pauld­ing County. The 59 year old Noff­singer, of Defi­ance, is charged with aggra­vated mur­der in con­nec­tion with the death of his ex-wife, Alma Noff­singer, whose body was found in her home in Oak­wood back in …

Good news for any­one want­ing to expand their busi­ness in Mont­pe­lier… Water tap fees will be waived for at least one busi­ness in the vil­lage. At Monday’s meet­ing, Mont­pe­lier Vil­lage Coun­cil voted unan­i­mously to waive tap fees for Moore Indus­tries on Hen­dricks Drive, which is expand­ing at the site. A …

Alco­hol and drugs are behind a Sun­day arrest by Bryan Police. Early yes­ter­day morn­ing, around 1:45am, 34 year old Malinda Gowins of Lex­ing­ton, Ken­tucky, was arrested for OVI and Pos­ses­sion of Mar­i­juana. Bond was posted and she was released.