MARIA STEIN - School board members and teachers have ratified a new, three-year contract that includes no salary or step increases during the first two years. [More]

CELINA - Officials from several agencies are investigating an occupied apartment complex infested with bed bugs and cockroaches.

The 11 rental unit

CELINA - A group working to restore Grand Lake and promote the upcoming tourist season hopes to arm businesses with information to tackle challenging questions.

CELINA - Ron Hammons will join the race for Celina mayor in November.

Hammons filed as an independent candidate earlier this month and Mercer County Board of Elections members certified his petition Tuesday morning. [More]

Final election counts for Auglaize County were completed Wednesday with no changes to the unofficial results.

Patrick McGowan won the St. Marys' Republican mayoral primary with 420 votes. Chris Botkin received 386 votes and Dennis Dedrick received 192.

The story of a former Lima anesthesiologist convicted of killing his wife will be aired at 10 p.m. Friday on the CBS documentary and news program "48

FORT RECOVERY - The school district is expected to end fiscal year 2011 in the black, treasurer Lori Koch said.

At a board meeting Tuesday night,

A 69-year-old Celina woman pleaded guilty last week in Mercer County Common Pleas Court to charges she fraudulently applied for and received thousands of dollars in loans.

ST. MARYS - Nature is messy and unpredictable, violent and even dangerous, according to artist Elizabeth Kauffman.

"Yet, we long for it, to be near it," she said.

CELINA - The Celina softball team wrapped up Western Buckeye League play with an unorthodox doubleheader sweep on Wednesday at Montgomery Field.

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CELINA - An extraordinarily wet spring has turned Bill Feth Diamond into more of a swamp than a high school softball diamond for Celina.

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Three area teams are at the top of the standings after the first day of the Division II girls' district track meet at Shawnee High School. Two girls' districts are being held with qualifiers from both moving on to the Lexington Regional.