Work on the 2010 budget for the City of Celina cannot move forward until city council members approve a new way of paying its bills and employee salaries.

Mercer County commissioners this morning unanimously shot down a controversial zoning amendment request for a property in East Jefferson Township, north of Grand Lake. [More]

ST. MARYS - One local library director is "walking gingerly" through the pros and cons of joining Libraries Connect Ohio (LCO), a partnership of Ohio libraries and library organizations working to build a collection of information resources and services. Her concern centers on filters.

St. Henry resident Tamara S. Evers looked straight ahead as she entered Mercer County Common Pleas Court Wednesday morning, apparently paying no attention to the large group of people gathered around the parents of an infant who allegedly sustained fatal injuries while under her care. [More]

H1N1 flu dominated the news in 2009 and taxed manpower and other resources of health departments across the nation, including local ones.

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The Epleys - a father and son from Sidney - appeared in Mercer County Common Pleas Court Wednesday afternoon in connection with a December burglary at the Fraternal Order of Eagles Hall in Coldwater.

COLDWATER - Coldwater Exempted Village Schools officials chose not to apply for the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top (RttT) grant.

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When I approached former Coldwater girls basketball coach Charlie Maier about his thoughts for this week's story, I realized requesting a Hall of Fame coach to single out one game from a 20-plus year career was sort of like asking John Wayne to pinpoint his favorite gunfight.

Tonight
Fort Recovery (6-2, 2-0 MAC)
at Versailles (7-1, 3-0 MAC)

The experienced Indians have been playing well all season and will look to st