Thousands of dollars worth of fines have been issued in the last year to area clubs and bars since the state took over enforcement of the Smokefree Workplace Act.
Topping the list in the Grand Lake area with the highest number of violations and fines is the Veterans of Foreign Wars post along Logan Street in Celina. The club has paid $6,600 in fines since the no-smoking law went into effect in the spring of 2007. [More]
ST. MARYS - High school students in neon green safety vests were all over town Wednesday morning pulling weeds, washing windows, mural painting, cleaning up the canal and more. They dashed from buses to the high school for their free lunches just as the first sprinkles of rain began. [More]
World of Outlaw sprint car racing is a tough business.
A season traveling coast to coast to race against the best sprint car drivers and teams in the country is filled with highs and lows.
Findlay's Chad Kemenah experienced the emotional rollercoaster the series can provide in a 72-hour window earlier this year. Now the 2006 World of Outlaw Rookie of the Year is trying to resurrect not just his season but his promising career. [More]
An Auglaize County attorney this morning filed the paperwork asking for a new trial for the Chickasaw man sentenced to 24 years in prison for the deaths of four Maria Stein teens.
MINSTER - The return of nice weather means road construction ahead as local councilors approved bids for 2009 minor street resurfacing projects Tuesday night.
Mercer County officials are doing their part to put people to work with numerous road, ditch and other infrastructure-related projects planned for the coming year.
ROCKFORD - Parkway baseball standout Levon Archer will head up to Ada next fall and join the Ohio Northern University baseball team, joining a long line of area ballplayers who have roamed the Polar Bear diamond over the years.
This week in local sports history 50 years ago, the Coldwater Cavaliers were one of 12 teams to advance to the sectional tournament, where they were by far the smallest school.
A pair of Marion Local volleyball players earned national honors for their play this past season for the Division IV state champions, according to a press release from Marion Local coach Amy Steininger.
