CELINA - Showing compassion is an important step in helping those with mental illness, local law-enforcement officers learned this week.

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MONTEZUMA - Trevor Schmehl set a towering goal to attain the rank of Eagle Scout.

It's a 12-foot-high goal, to be exact.

The Memorial High School freshman is building an observation tower in the heart of Gilliland Nature Sanctuary east of Montezuma. [More]

CELINA - Ed Jeffries fully supports recycling - without it, he couldn't afford to provide scores of trophies each year to young tournament winners.

WAPAKONETA - Auglaize County Commissioners are seeking to hire a new county administrator after leaving the post open for nearly five months.

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AKRON - Marissa Conrad gave the Minster softball team the offensive jolt it needed.

Kayla Richard remained calm and collected on the mound after four errors by her defense led to three early runs for Bainbridge Paint Valley.

COLUMBUS - As Friday's portion of the state track meet wrapped up in the early evening, two local athletes emerged late to earn state championships in their individual events. [More]

COLUMBUS - Friday's portion of the state track meet featured finals in the 4x800 meter relay and semifinal heats of shorter running events.

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ROSSBURG - There have been some close finishes at Eldora Speedway in the last 61 years, but it is hard to imagine there has ever been one closer than in Friday's first 25-lap preliminary feature during the Dirt Late Model Dream Presented Ferris Mowers weekend.

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Grand Lake scored three runs in the top of the second inning and added two insurance runs in the eighth to pick up their first Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League win of the season by beating Xenia 6-1 on Friday night at Grady Field in Xenia.