ST. MARYS - A St. Marys man accused in the beating death of another man in September has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Gordon W. Diggle, 30, appeared for an arraignment hearing Tuesday morning at the Central Services Building in Wapakoneta - the temporary location of Auglaize County Common Pleas Court while the courthouse undergoes renovations. [More]
GRAND LAKE - A third sediment collector was installed Wednesday afternoon in Barnes Creek behind the St. Marys Township house, another piece of the puzzle toward restoring water quality in Grand Lake.
Two others, one in Big Chickasaw Creek and another in Beaver Creek near Montezuma, were installed last year. [More]
FORT RECOVERY - Safety work on the spillway at the State Line Road dam southwest of Fort Recovery is on the agenda for the Wabash River Conservancy District this year.
Conservancy President Wally Broering said the work will entail removing 10 to 11 inches of dirt from the top of the spillway. A cost estimate will be obtained in the next several months and the work should be completed this summer, he said. [More]
Two people were injured when their vehicles collided Wednesday morning along U.S. 127, north of Monroe Road. The weather-related crash occurred at 10 a.m., according to Mercer County Sheriff's Office reports.
NEW BREMEN - Fifty-one employees or roughly half the New Bremen Local Schools staff have embarked on a wellness program, according to reports given to board of education members Wednesday night.
CELINA - City council members may apply for an Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) grant that would finance much of a $1 million Market Street reconstruction project in 2013.
MENDON - A mother and her two young sons escaped a Wednesday afternoon fire that heavily damaged their home.
Amanda Houser, 412 S. Wayne St., called 911 by cell phone at 1:08 p.m. to report the house was on fire and she and the children were trapped in a back bedroom.
Author Tami Boehmer of Cincinnati was 46 years old in 2008 when she heard her second cancer diagnosis. It was a recurrence, but this time it was stage 4 and terminal.
The area's most heated rivalry hits the hardwood on Friday night when the Celina Bulldogs host the St. Marys Roughriders at the Fieldhouse for a Western Buckeye League contest.
Thirty years ago, Gary Jones glanced around during summer open gyms and the Marion Local senior-to-be admits now that his expectations were pretty uncertain.
