CELINA - Wright State University-Lake Campus officials hope to break ground for its first dormitory next month.

Tom Knapke, development director of

'Tis the season for New Year's resolutions with people vowing to get more healthy and lose some weight.

Fifteen members of the Mercer County Sheriff's Office started early by launching their own 14-week Biggest Loser competition Nov. 1. To date, the eight women and seven men have lost 91.5 pounds. [More]

ST. MARYS - Council held second reading for the 2011 budget Wednesday with total appropriations set at $47.2 million.

The city will have a carryover of approximately $1 million from 2010. Auditor Doug Riesen this morning said he did not have projected revenue for 2011.

Rusty, a terrier mix and best friend of fourth-grader Nick Bruns from Marion Local Schools, became Mercer County's Top Dog on Wednesday.

The Top Do

ARCANUM - An area teen was killed Wednesday after his clothing became tangled in a manure spreader.

John M. Warner, 16, of Arcanum, was pronounced dead shortly after 2:30 p.m. in a field along Delisle-Fourman Road in Darke County.

VAN WERT - Area artist Kay Sluterbeck has a fun art project for kids and adults to try this winter season.

Sluterbeck, who works at Wassenberg Art Center in Van Wert, suggests making an imitation of an amate painting.

CELINA - The Celina boys basketball team has won the annual HALLiday Shootout on 12 different occasions and the Bulldogs earned the chance to do so again tonight.

ROCKFORD - For the second straight year, the boys' championship of the Chatt Insurance Holiday Tournament came down to the host Parkway Panthers and St. Marys Roughriders. [More]

Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry

Minster outscored Liberty-Benton 24-13 in the first half and held off the Eagles to capture the Vicki Mauk Classic 43-39 on Wedneday at the Elida Fieldhouse.