Menards and a Sonic restaurant will open in Celina in approximately two weeks, and a deal is nearly complete for another retail business in the Harbor Square Development. [More]

Celina City Council members will need to approve supplemental appropriations, including $236,000 from the general fund, in order to make the city's 2008 budget whole. [More]

A St. Henry man implicated in the traffic deaths of four area men waived his rights to a speedy trial during a Wednesday afternoon appearance in Mercer County Common Pleas Court.

Additional court proceedings also are scheduled in the cases of Nick Schwieterman and Kyle Schmitmeyer stemming from a March 15 traffic accident that resulted in four fatalities.

Plea negotiations continue in the case of a former Celina businesswomen who allegedly accepted nearly $52,000 from customers but never delivered the

COLDWATER - The school district is expected to end fiscal year 2008 with $89,641 in deficit spending.

The deficit will be covered by the school's cash balance, projected at $2.3 million as of June 30.

Mississinawa Valley School officials and Darke County Sheriff's detectives are investigating the third bomb threat at the school this year.

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The drive to qualify for state in four events ended on Wednesday for Celina senior track standout Julie Snyder as she barely missed the top four in the high jump at the Division I regional at Steele High School in Amherst.

Parkway's Jensen Painter and Versailles' Emily Bohman were honored as the top baseball and softball players respectively by the coaches of the Midwest Athletic Conference as the All-MAC teams were released.