Shoppers at Chief supermarket in Celina often hear Bob Bollenbacher before they see him and his bright, red kettle.

The 68-year-old Celina resident has been ringing the Salvation Army bell at the Celina grocery store each weekend since Thanksgiving.

CELINA - Mercer Health hospital officials are confident they can provide care for potential Ebola patients while protecting doctors, staff and others from contamination of the deadly disease that surfaced in the United States for the first time this summer. [More]

COLDWATER - Mercer Health purchased a second mobile X-ray machine and has 38 new hospital beds on its wish list for 2015.

The mobile C-arm X-Ray machine cost $122,652 and was purchased earlier this month, chief financial officer George Boyles told the board of governors Wednesday night.

NEW BREMEN - School board members Wednesday night met with the head of Auglaize County schools to discuss how to fill a soon-to-be vacant superintendent's position.

ROCKFORD - Residents seeking emergency assistance should call 911 or Central Dispatch instead of pestering the police chief at his home.

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CELINA - Stoplights along Main Street blinked red for about 30 minutes starting at 2 p.m. Wednesday due to issues with the installation of a new fiber switch.

MINSTER - A pair of Minster girls basketball players will take their game to the next level.

Guard Mariah McKenzie will head to familiar territory

MINSTER - Nikki Borgerding has shown she is one of the best swimmers in the area during her high school career.

Now, the Minster senior will get the chance to swim at the next level after signing a National Letter of Intent to swim at Wright State University next season.

Bob Priddy initially walked through the front doors of St. Marys Memorial High School in the summer of 1969 after attending Miami University, where he had played football for Bo Schembechler, Gary Moeller and Jim Young. [More]

The top boys playing hoops in the area are who we thought they were. Conference play in the MAC and WBL is starting to get under way. And a pair of MAC girls' teams came out of the gate on fire.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - It's been a long December for Counting Crows, the California-based veteran rock act that recently wrapped up a month-long, nine