CELINA - Bender Electrical Contracting of St. Henry on Wednesday installed two poles containing a total of 37 1,500-watt metal halide lamps at The CAPT Baseball Complex at Montgomery Field.

CELINA - Chad A. Ralston, 39, Celina, pleaded guilty in Mercer County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday to a charge of disseminating matter harmful to juveniles, a fourth-degree felony, as part of a plea agreement.

COLDWATER - Mercer County Community Hospital administrators are working to improve how they communicate and work with the local Marshallese population. [More]

Local communities plan to observe Memorial Day weekend. Events begin on Friday in Fort Recovery.

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Memorial Day observances in Celina will be held on Monday with services at 11 a.m. at Lakeshore Park's memorial site. [More]

NEW BREMEN - Sixty-one graduates will receive diplomas during a commencement ceremony at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the high school gymnasium.

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MINSTER - Sixty-two graduates will receive diplomas during the commencement ceremony at 1 p.m. Sunday at Minster Elementary School.

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CELINA - A 43-year-old Celina man was arraigned in Mercer County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday on two counts of improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle.

CELINA - An 18-year-old Bradford man on Wednesday changed his plea from not guilty to no contest the day before his jury trial on a charge of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor was set to begin in Mercer County Common Pleas Court.

CELINA - Mercer County Common Pleas Court Judge Jeffrey Ingraham on Wednesday denied the request of Dejah Hall, 18, either to release her from the Mercer County jail on her own recognizance or reduce her $250,000 bond.

COLUMBUS - Far and away the most-anticipated band at Rock on the Range last weekend, Los Angeles-based four-piece Tool finished out the festival with its patented hybrid of aggressive, psychedelia-informed prog metal to a soccer stadium packed with 40,000 screaming rock fans.

GREENVILLE - Newton was not about to let Haley Hawk beat them at the plate.

The rest of the Parkway Panthers were glad to do it themselves.

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TROY - Marion Local's John Dirksen is headed to Notre Dame soon to continue his football career.

Before he heads to South Bend, however, the future Fighting Irish tight end has one final athletic stop in Ohio: the Division III state track and field meet.

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A week after having broken the school record in the shot put at the district track meet, Celina's Tyler Ross claimed the other Bulldogs' throwing record at the Division I regional meet at Amherst Steele High School.