Cafeteria cooks wage a daily battle with finicky eaters and slim school budgets that test their culinary skills and creativity.

Homemade dishes such as oven-baked pasta dishes have almost disappeared from school menus because of high labor costs and their unpopularity with students. [More]

A St. Marys man arrested last week for drug trafficking died this morning at the Auglaize County Jail.

Correction officers found Thomas J. Moyar, 51, Parkway Drive, unresponsive in his cell at 12:24 a.m. Wapakoneta Rescue Squad responded to the scene and determined Moyar was dead.

Five area schools have been honored by U.S. News and World Reports as being among the best high schools in America.

Minster High School earned silver ranking while Coldwater, Fort Recovery, Marion Local and Versailles high schools garnered bronze awards.

Officials at Crown Equipment Corp. have confirmed reports of layoffs at plants in New Bremen, Celina, New Knoxville and Fort Loramie as a result of declining orders. [More]

A proposal to increase lifeguard wages resulted in a heated dispute between two Celina city council members during a meeting Wednesday.

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FORT RECOVERY - Fort Recovery Library has been turned into a winter wonderland as dozens of multi-colored and different themed Christmas trees have been set up throughout the building.

Three local fire departments - Mendon, Coldwater and Burkettsville - have been awarded more than $150,000 in federal grants in the last six months to purchase needed equipment.

A Celina man will spend at least 30 days in jail after pleading no contest to an amended charge of aggravated trespassing in Celina Municipal Court.

WAPAKONETA - Auglaize County Health Department staff will receive across-the-board raises of 3 percent that become effective Jan. 1.

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