Thumbs off the keyboard.

The state ban on texting for all drivers and the forbiddance of teenagers from using any electronic device while at the wheel begin today. [More]

Kitchen tables are gathering dust, and absent diners are gaining pounds.

Half of all family meals are eaten away from home and many more consist of take-out food. The result is an epidemic of overweight children and adults who rarely interact with one another.

Three area companies submitted bids to build a new fire department structure in Chattanooga.

Mercer County Commissioners on Thursday opened sealed bids for construction of the Liberty Township Fire Department building.

FORT RECOVERY - Phase two of the village's sewer separation project slated to begin next year will cost the village $2.58 million, according to an estimate presented to village council members Thursday night.

Jinghao Xu, an illegal alien convicted in the death of a Minster-area girl, is being deported to his native China.

The 51-year-old man, a carpet l

NEW BREMEN - If Thursday night's Midwest Athletic Conference opener between the Marion Local Flyers and the New Bremen Cardinals was any indication of how the year will go, it's going to be a wild and wooly volleyball season. [More]

What a difference a year has made for Matt Miller!

Halfway through the 2011 dirt late model racing season, the Whitehouse, Ohio, driver with two El

CELINA - It may have been a win in the third game for Celina, but the momentum was completely in Ottawa-Glandorf's court.

The Titans staved off gam

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Matt Kaufman and Eric Beckman each scored twice as Ottawa-Glandorf defeated Celina 5-1 in the Western Buckeye League boys' soccer opener at the O-G Athletic Complex in Glandorf.

ST. HENRY - The St. Henry Redskins opened defense of their 2011 Midwest Athletic Conference volleyball title, and the home portion of their schedule,