CELINA - Jason Barhorst beat the heat - and everyone else - on Saturday at the Grand Lake Marathon.

The Sidney native captured the marathon title for the second straight year, completing the 26.2-mile race in a time of 2 hours, 56 minutes and 37.3 seconds. [More]

Teams playing in the Midwest Athletic Conference boys' and girls' golf tournaments on Saturday didn't need to warm up too much with the weather providing enough heat for all.

The heat didn't slow down the St. Henry boys at all as they collected the outright conference title with a blistering showing at the boys' tournament at the Mercer County Elks. [More]

Peanut butter and jelly, peas and carrots, carp and Grand Lake - some things are just meant to be together.

"It (the carp population) has been here since the beginning of Grand Lake" said Stephen Jacquemin, a Wright State University-Lake Campus associate professor of biology. [More]

NEW BREMEN - Homecoming is a time for celebration.

And the New Bremen football team gave hometown fans plenty to celebrate on Friday.

Led by the ground attack of Nolan Bornhorst and Avery Powers, the Cardinals defeated the visiting Parkway Panthers 34-20 on Homecoming Night at Cardinal Stadium - capturing their first Midwest Athletic Conference victory since Sept. 28, 2012. [More]

CELINA - Mercer County officials are seeking funding sources that would help pay the upfront costs for a proposed new sewer system in the Grand Lake watershed.

However, county community development director Jared Ebbing stressed that plans for the [More]

CELINA - For Jill Schmitmeyer, it was a tremendous day of golf at the Western Buckeye League boys' golf tournament at Celina Lynx on Thursday afternoon.

The St. Marys senior finished tied for fourth in the tournament with a 77, which helped her earn runner-up in the points race for league Golfer of the Year. [More]

CELINA - Several Tri Star Career Compact students have united to raise money for those affected by hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

New Bremen High School junior Heather Huddleston had watched the devastating news and grieved for her family members in Florida. [More]

VAN WERT COUNTY - A Minster man was killed on Wednesday morning when a semitrailer traveling behind him struck his vehicle, pushing it into the back of another semitrailer.

At about 10:45 a.m., Bret Helsel, 63, was driving a 2007 Toyota sedan behind a 2018 International semi driven by David Knight, 45, Industry, Pennsylvania, on U.S. 30, according to a release from the Ohio State Highway Patrol's Van Wert Post. [More]