The scorching heat is being blamed for sickening at least a half dozen youths at a church camp in Mendon late Wednesday afternoon.

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Public employee pensions paid in part by the city of Celina, Mercer County and local schools account for hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual expenditures, according to local officials. [More]

WAPAKONETA - Convicted murderer Gordon W. Diggle III was sentenced to 10 more years in prison for related charges in the beating death of a man outside a St. Marys bar last fall.

Former Ohio Representative and St. Marys native Jim Davis, 76, died Tuesday after a long life of serving the area.

"He was an honest and honorable man, and he served the people," said state Rep. Jim Buchy, R-Greenville, who served with Davis years ago.

VAN WERT - A Van Wert man accused of murdering his grandmother last fall is standing by his pleas of insanity.

Shawn M. Jones, 36, appeared in Van

FORT RECOVERY - School district voters in November will decide whether to approve a $3.4 million bond issue to finance renovation of the high school.

It's been a long season of baseball for the Minster Wildcats.

The team capped off the spring by winning the Division IV state title in early June, and have not had much of a break since.

It's not exactly "Field of Dreams", where the phrase "If you build it, they will come" became a part of the lexicon.

But once the FieldTurf infield was placed on what became Montgomery Field in Celina's Eastview Park, the ACME Basebal Congress has come with competition. [More]

CELINA - It was another night when the offense could not come up with anything.

Lima pitchers held the Mariners to just four hits on the night as the Locos maintained their lead in the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League's North Division with an 8-1 win on Wednesday at Jim Hoess Field.

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The Celina Dolphins swim team got a final tune up before this weekend's Tri-County Swimming Championships with a 425-172 win over the New Bremen Barracudas last week.