News Staff The Indiana State Police Department is investigating a crash that leaves a pedestrian seriously hurt after being hit by a semi…Saturday evening on the Indiana Toll Road…in Steuben County. Troopers responded to the eastbound lanes of I-80, a few miles east of the Angola exit. Officers find the man lying in a grass median with … Read more
Norfolk Southern’s fourth-quarter profit fell 33% because of the ever growing costs of the cleanup of last year’s fiery derailment in eastern Ohio, but the railroad did deliver 3% more shipments during the quarter and even without the costs related to that toxic crash its profits still would have been down 14%. The Atlanta-based railroad … Read more
The Williams County Board of Elections moves the voting location for two Bryan precincts and rejects a citizen’s protestation of another candidate. Bryan Precincts E and F will now vote at Wesley United Methodist Church, on Center St., just over a mile away from the current location. Separately, the board also rejected a letter, protesting … Read more
The pretrial hearing for a Bryan man…charged with aggravated burglary and strangulation…has been rescheduled. Sean Crocker, 29, had the pretrial hearing moved to Feb. 12 at 3 p.m. in Williams County Common Pleas Court. He also had a new attorney representing him in making the motion. The attorney also filed a request for discovery and … Read more
The Van Wert Police Department is investigating an arson on the city’s west side. Officials say…dispatch got a…it’s a garage on fire at a Leeson Avenue home. Once officers arrived at the scene, they reportedly found evidence that indicated someone used a Molotov cocktail to try to set the garage on fire, although a nearby … Read more
A coalition of voting-rights groups is vowing to fight on…after Ohio Attorney General, Dave Yost issues his second rejection of petition language it has submitted for a proposed constitutional amendment. Yost found the amendment’s title…“Ohio Voters Bill of Rights”…was highly misleading and misrepresentative of the measure’s contents, even as he acknowledged that his office had … Read more
The Williams County Commissioners met with their attorney on AquaBounty’s recent permit decision but have some time before their deadline for appeal. Commission President Bart Westfall says the commissioners were still in discussions for their next course of action. AquaBounty and the village of Pioneer requested the use of county right-of-way to install two water … Read more
An interruption in the supply of electric transformers has slowed a Bryan project to build a new substation, and the issue could get worse. Sen. Sherrod Brown and Sen. Ted Cruz, of Texas, have introduced legislation they hope will convince the Energy Department to reconsider a rule on materials used in transformers. They say it … Read more
The Williams County commissioners held the first public hearing for the next round of funding for the Community Development Block Grant program. Officials from around the county attended the meeting, which was informational and included a tentative timeline. It was stressed the projects being applied for through this round of funding would be for 2025 … Read more
It’s going national. A Christian church in Bryan files a federal lawsuit after its pastor is charged with violating city ordinances when he opened up the sanctuary around the clock for homeless people and others to find shelter. An attorney for the church, Jeremy Dys, says he thinks city leaders don’t want the ministry in … Read more