News Staff A Bryan home is badly damaged in a Sunday evening fire on E. Mulberry St. When the fire team rolls up on the scene…they see flames and smoke coming from inside the place. Montpelier and Edgerton crews were called in to help out. The one person living in the home…was on the roof. A neighbor … Read more
Supply chain issues are forcing an area manufacturer to lay off some of their workforce. Powers and Sons…a Williams County company that makes car parts for Ford and others…says it will be temporarily trimming close to a third of its workforce. Roughly 90 are affected in the move. The hope is…company officials say…it should only … Read more
Deaths in Williams County exceeded births in 2021. Officials say, 300 children were born in 2021 while 345 people died. Statewide, Ohio saw more deaths than births in 2020 for the first time in the 112 years the state has been tracking the information. Preliminary data from the Ohio Department of Health shows that trend … Read more
Ohio Secretary of State, Frank LaRose orders county elections boards to work as if the latest district maps for state and federal elections would be approved. Republicans on the Ohio Redistricting Commission approved an adjusted map of congressional districts on Wednesday. Democrats voted against the map, which would deliver two-thirds of the seats to Republicans. … Read more
Ohio’s senators say they have lined up bipartisan support in both houses of Congress for new legislation that would restore the terminated pensions of more than 20,000 salaried retirees of Delphi, the bankrupted former auto parts supplier. The move followed a Supreme Court decision in January…declining to take up the retirees’ final legal appeal.. Sens. … Read more
A concealed weapons permit would become optional and the requirement that individuals promptly notify police officers that they are carrying a concealed weapon would be eliminated…under legislation approved along partisan lines by Ohio’s GOP-controlled Legislature. It has now been sent to Gov., DeWine. Officials say it will likely be signed into law. The measure is … Read more
An Ohio judge has blocked preemptive enforcement of a law…imposing additional requirements on consulting physicians at abortion clinics…requirements that abortion providers say threaten operations at two of the last clinics in the state. While the bill’s stated goal was to impose criminal penalties on doctors who fail to provide life-saving measures in rare instances, where … Read more
A doctor, working in the emergency room at the hospital in Bryan…suffers facial fractures and a concussion. This happened back on Feb. 14th. Officials tell reporters…Dr. Hussein Kashk was attacked by a 61-year-old Williams County man…a relative of a patient being treated in the ER. Officials will try to indict the man on two counts … Read more
David Ruetz got in a standoff in front of the North Municipal Building in Bryan in November 2020. This week…he was found guilty of two felony counts in a Williams County courtroom. He could face one year in prison for each of the charges he faces. We reported…Bryan Police found Ruetz sitting at the south … Read more
A man loses control of his car…and crashes into a ditch, after hitting a pothole in DeKalb County. Dillon Kline, 23, of Ashley was driving north along C.R. 35 when he struck the hole in the road. The vehicle, then goes off the roadway. No one is hurt. The investigation into the accident continues.