Bradford News

A Miami County grain dryer goes up in flames last night. It happened on a farm in the 3100 block of Owens Road near Pleasant Hill.

A woman is discovered alive in a Darke County septic tank last night. It happened in the 9000 of Horatio-Harris Creek Road near Bradford.

Darke County deputies are investigating the possible suspicious circumstances into the discovery of a woman in a septic tank at a house along the 9000 block of Horatio-Harris Creek Road near Bradford Wednesday night.

Absences are well above normal this week in several Miami County school districts.

Tippecane High School had around 200 of 850 students absent Wednesday, Oct. 7, most probably due to illness, according to Jim Luken, Miami County Health Commissioner.

John Scalzi John Scalzi was born in 1969. His first job out of college was as a film critic at the Fresno Bee newspaper in California.

Three people want to be Piqua mayor, while four people want to represent the 3rd Ward on the Piqua City Commission.

Coshocton County Sheriff's Office Aug. 3 Total inmates, 64; males, 55; females, 9. Accidents July 31 Jeremy Edward Bradford, 30, of 205 Biggs Ave., Conesville, and Diana L. Marlatt, 60, of 1208 Fairy Falls Drive, collided in the intersection of Orange and 17th streets.

A Bradford couple, who a Miami County judge said were "pumping a lot" of marijuana into the community, were sentenced to identical one-year prison terms Monday, June 8. Lori Swob, 45, and William Swob, 54, were charged in December with felony trafficking in drugs.

WAYNE TWP., Darke County - A Bradford man is in serious condition today at Miami Valley Hospital after an automobile accident on Friday, May 29, on Ohio 185 between Versailles and Bradford, according to the Darke County Sheriff's office.

LANCASTER: Harry Bradford Dew, 87, formerly of Burr Oak passed away Tuesday May 19, 2009 at the Fairfield Medical Center, Lancaster He had been a resident of Altercare Valley View Nursing Home, Lancaster since November 2008.

His real name was Breen Nicholas Gitzinger, but to radio rock 'n' roll fans in the 1950s and '60s, he was one of the top radio disc jockeys in the Miami Valley, known as Nick Powers and the Powerhouse.

Disorderly conduct intoxication - Joey L. Dearing, 39, of Detroit, guilty, fined $100 and court costs; April 21.

A 72-year-old Elida woman was killed in a Tuesday morning accident a mile north of Greenville in Darke County.