Defiance News

After 16 years of service as director of the Defiance County 911 Operations Center, a Hicksville, Ohio, woman has stepped down from her position over allegations of misuse of an expense account.

According to the city engineer's office, Jefferson will close Thursday morning to through traffic between Meyers and Fifth streets while a traffic signal at Arabella Street is repaired.

He was born November 17, 1938, in Leipsic, to the late Wilfred "Bill" and Anna Mae Kuhlman.

Five people were arrested Friday after officials responded to a fire at a Defiance residence where a meth lab was discovered.

The crash occurred about 4:20 p.m. Friday on U.S. 127 near County Road 15-D, according to the Williams County Sheriff's Department.

Rita Ann Kasuga, 94, of Defiance, Ohio, and formerly of Tiffin, died at 11:50 a.m., Friday, June 14, 2013, at CHP Defiance Area In-Patient Hospice Center, Defiance.

The Friends of Camp Palmer are sponsoring a drawing for a new pool. Each 4-H camp week throughout the summer, there will be a drawing for a $500 winner at lunch time of the first full day of camp.

The Fort Brown Bicentennial is set to begin at 10 a.m., June 29 and the program will have a patriotic theme.

He was born on April 14, 1925, to William and Ola Kibble in Defiance County, Ohio.

She was born December 22, 1930, in Defiance, Ohio, the daughter of Harold and Gladys Ridenour.

Lorena A. Arps, 76, of Holgate, Ohio, died peacefully on Thursday morning, June 13, 2013, at CHP Defiance Area In-Patient Hospice Center.

The National Weather Service of northern Indiana has issued a hazardous weather outlook for portions of northwest Ohio, southwest lower Michigan and northern Indiana.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol is looking into a crash that left one man dead in Defiance County.

NEY, Ohio A Bryan, Ohio, man was killed when the car he was driving crashed on State Rt.

When Jim Walpole accidentally slit his throat in a fall, Malkovich was the first on the scene and applied pressure to the wound until the ambulance arrived Matilda Battersby is Online Arts Editor for www.independent.co.uk.

Seth Gold from the hit TV show Hard Core Pawn spent some time right over the Indiana border in Defiance, Ohio for a good cause.

Transportation Security Administration agents in Denver briefly stopped "Star Wars" franchise actor Peter Mayhew recently as he was boarding a flight with a cane shaped like one of science-fiction's most iconic weapons.

Actor John Malkovich came to the rescue of an Ohio man who fell into a Toronto street and cut his neck on a scaffolding pole outside of his hotel.

Actor John Malkovich is being hailed as a hero after performing first aid on an Ohio man who tripped on a curb and slashed his neck in downtown Toronto on Thursday night.

Dianna L. Batt, 55, of Florida, Ohio, passed away at 11:40 p.m. Friday, June 7, 2013, at CHP Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice Center.