CELINA - Mercer Residential Services intends to build a new eight-bedroom group home for clients with developmental disabilities near the former Mersman Company, according to executive director Garry Mosier. [More]

Whether it's a life or death situation or a safety concern, dispatchers in Mercer and Auglaize counties have received the training to handle the situation.

ST. MARYS - The Auglaize County Sheriff's Office today released the name of the deputy who fired the shots that killed a former St. Marys police officer three weeks ago.

ROCKFORD - Local health officials are inching closer to a final settlement with owners of an unused landfill in northwest Mercer County.

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CELINA - Flu season appears to be at its peak in the Grand Lake area.

Joyce Jansen, director of nursing at the Mercer County-Celina City Health Department, told board members Wednesday that seasonal influenza activity is widespread in Ohio and in the Grand Lake area.

Mercer County commissioners are seeking bids from contractors for a $2.1 million road project in Franklin Township.

All submitted bids will be opened March 17 at the commissioner's office in the Central Services Building in Celina.

PERRYSBURG - The Rev. Marvin G. Borger, pastor of St. Rose Catholic Church in Perrysburg, has been named a monsignor by Pope Benedict XVI at the reco

FORT SHAWNEE - With at least a share of the Western Buckeye League title already in its pocket, St. Marys was looking to win its first outright league title in nine years on Thursday against a Shawnee team looking to make the Roughriders share.

CELINA - The Lima Bath girls' basketball team walked off the Fieldhouse floor on Thursday night as Western Buckeye League champions for the 14th time in school history.

MINSTER - The Minster girls basketball team captured an outright Midwest Athletic Conference title on Thursday night with a 51-37 win over the St. Henry Redskins on Senior Night at the Minster Middle School. [More]

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The Celina boys' diving program is assured of having at least two divers at state next week after district action got underway at Bowling Green State University on Thursday.