CELINA - Dorothy Buckloh slices a cherry pie into generous wedges as Unity Grange embarks on its 75th anniversary of serving meals at the Mercer County Fair. [More]

MERCER COUNTY - Rural landowners are being asked to join their neighbors and donate tracts of right-of-way space to widen county roads.

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New heat records for July and the first seven months of the year in the contiguous United States were set, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center.

Trial dates have been set in the case of a 41-year-old Fort Recovery man charged in connection with the August 2009 death of his handicapped son.

Michael C. Billerman, 118 E. Broadway St., faces one count of reckless homicide and two counts of endangering children, all third-degree felonies.

ST. MARYS - After more than a year of planning, St. Marys residents soon will have a canal footbridge connecting K.C. Geiger Park and the soccer fields off Beech Street.

GROVER HILL - The head of the state's livestock permitting program said farmers need to do a better job on where and when they apply manure and commercial fertilizer as hazardous algae blooms caused by phosphorous runoff continue to be a problem.

CELINA - Even though they would be lifting hundreds and hundreds of pounds over the next few hours, the group of powerlifters working at Musclehead's Gym in Celina starts simple - with an empty bar. [More]