VAN WERT - A 36-year-old man will remain in jail without bond after being charged with the murder of his grandmother in her Van Wert home Friday evening.

ST. MARYS - Carp derbies, popular on Grand Lake in the 1950s, may be held as a way to reduce the lake's population of rough fish and increase game fish. [More]

MINSTER - U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown chose the nation's largest yogurt production plant to stress the importance of manufacturing on the homefront as well as throughout the country.

"...to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health...."

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St. MARYS - Customers will not see an increase in utility rates when the city launches the second installment of a sewer relief project next year. The EPA issued orders in 2006 stating the city must remove all overflows and bypasses by June 2013.

FORT RECOVERY - Village council members Monday night unanimously approved an ordinance establishing a surcharge for industries discharging high amounts of pollutants in the wastewater system.

MARIA STEIN - The Marion Local volleyball team did nothing to hurt their status as the state's top-ranked team in Division IV on Monday against Fort Loramie.

CELINA - For the last 21 years, the Grand Lake Mariners have been a fixture on the summer entertainment schedule for many area residents.

However, summer college baseball at Jim Hoess Field in Westview Park may be coming to an end. [More]

Compiled by Ryan Hines and Gary R. Rasberry

A Celina goal with 10 minutes left in the game salvaged a 2-2 for the Green and White in Western Buckeye League soccer action on Monday.

Jim Hoorman is seeking a brigade of individuals to provide him with labor and supplies to conduct cover crop research in the Grand Lake Watershed.

Both Mercer and Auglaize counties are among 79 in Ohio that have been designated agricultural natural disaster areas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.