ST. MARYS - Late last year a local teenager broke into his former girlfriend's house armed with a knife. The apparent plan was a murder/suicide. By the time city police crisis negotiators arrived he was barricaded in the bathroom. [More]

A Mercer County agency that provides job services will share more than $1 million in stimulus funds with three other area counties.

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The swine flu outbreak sickening people has caused a drop in hog prices as officials scramble to dispel misinformation on the virus, which appears to have no connection to pigs at all.

Voters in the New Bremen Local Schools district will decide the fate of a 1 percent income tax levy renewal at the polls May 5.

With the current in

A 26-year-old Celina man entered Mercer County Common Pleas Court Wednesday afternoon and flashed a quick smile minutes before pleading not guilty to charges stemming from the death of his infant stepson.

The state has issued final permits that will allow the expansion of a Fort Recovery layer hen operation from 659,999 chickens to 1.2 million chickens

Several dozen new banners now greet visitors to the village of St. Henry.

Village Administrator Don Hess told village council members meeting this

NEW BREMEN - Village councilor Delores Stienecker smiled broadly Tuesday night as fellow councilors unanimously authorized seeking bids for the construction of a lockkeeper's house along the Miami and Erie Canal.

The half-a-century-old Stauf- fer lift station located on Myers Road will most likely be relinquished by the city of Celina.

"This station, in my opinion, should have been abandoned years ago," wastewater treatment plant Superintendent Kerry Duncan said at a recent utilities committee meeting.

Election Day is Tuesday and polling locations will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Voters still need to bring identification to the polls in order to vote. [More]

A Celina man faces an assault charge after he walked out of a local mental health facility and later scuffled with a deputy attempting to talk him into going back.

Ellen Keyes of New Bremen can't imagine a day without art.

From the design of clothes, cars and computers to the pleasure and expression of music and painting, art permeates all aspects of life, Keyes, the executive director of Gateway Arts Council in Sidney, says.

ST. MARYS - The bats were sizzling for the St. Marys softball team on Wednesday afternoon as the Roughriders hosted the rival Celina Bulldogs at K.C. Geiger Park. [More]

MINSTER - Coldwater won its sixth Midwest Athletic Conference game of the season, and become the sole unbeaten in the conference, behind the potent a

As the St. Marys Roughriders relish in another successful spring on the softball diamond, it's natural to compare and contrast to their great teams f

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St. Henry rallied to score a run in the bottom of the seventh to tie Lehman and send the game into extra innings, but the Cavaliers scored three times in the top of the 10th to leave the Wally Post Athletic Complex with a 6-3 win over the Redskins.