A pending law could make it easier for farmers to build manure digesters and algae growing facilities on their land.

The Ohio House of Representatives unanimously passed House Bill 276, which seeks to change the definition of agriculture and agricultural land to include anaerobic digesters and algaculture (farming of algae). This means ag land owners would not have to go before a zoning board to have their land rezoned industrial to build a digester. [More]

Two Indiana residents appeared recently in Mercer County Common Pleas Court for sentencing on charges stemming from the theft of meat from customers of a Fort Recovery business.

Darren M. Sain, 50, and Ladonna L. Williams, 52, both of Portland, each pleaded no contest to an amended charge of theft, a first-degree misdemeanor. The original charge was a more serious fifth-degree felony. [More]

Fifty-seven years ago, the Willshire High School Bearcats were perched on the pinnacle of the boys' high school basketball world.

Logging 29 victories over the course of the 1954-55 campaign, the tiny school nestled on the Ohio-Indiana border won more games and hit peaks that were rare for local schools to accomplish during that era. [More]