MERCER COUNTY - Law enforcement officials across the country have adopted much more aggressive ways to respond to active-school shootings since the infamous Columbine High School massacre that unfolded almost two decades ago. [More]

CELINA - Chad A. Ralston, 40, Rockford, has received his second 17-month prison sentence on charges involving juveniles.

Ralston was sentenced on Friday in Mercer County Common Pleas Court on a charge of disseminating matter harmful to juveniles, a fourth-degree felony.

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The Grand Lake Mariners scored three runs in the top of the sixth to defeat the Hamilton Joes 4-3 in Friday's nightcap and salvage a doubleheader split at Foundation Field in Hamilton.