Two independent candidates registered by the Monday deadline in Auglaize and Mercer counties - one for a Mercer County commissioner's seat and the other for Auglaize County coroner.

Twenty-four people face alcohol-related charges after Celina Police officers responded to reports of underage drinking and/or loud music at three weekend parties. [More]

There is about $30,000 in ODNR funds that local state park officials can use for private channel dredging, but it is unknown how much future funding will be available. [More]

Celina Police Department has initiated a Radar Hot-Spot program that Chief Dave Slusser hopes will result in fewer traffic accidents.

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A Lima man was sent to prison for nearly five years for trafficking in cocaine and kidnapping two local youths in Auglaize County last fall.

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ST. MARYS - The city solid waste committee has scheduled spring cleanup in an optimistic move toward spring and an end to any more wintry mixes.

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VERSAILLES - Joe Raterman has always been around to help out his sister, Versailles girls basketball coach Jacki Stonebraker, when she needed help with scouting or other matters.

COLUMBUS (AP) - West Chester Lakota West's Amber Gray was selected as the big-school Player of the Year, and Cierra Bravard of Sandusky Perkins and Ayana Dunning of Columbus Eastmoor Academy shared the Division II honors on the two Associated Press All-Ohio girls basketball teams announced Monday.