MARIA STEIN - Voters in the Marion Local School District rejected a proposed 8.5-mill bond issue that would have collected $16 million over 25 years to fund the construction of a new school facility. [More]

MINSTER - Nidec Minster Corp. officials are seeking an enterprise zone tax abatement agreement for a planned 20,000-square-foot addition to the company's manufacturing facility on the west side of Ohio Street. [More]

ST. MARYS - Voters on Tuesday approved the school district's 1 percent earned-income tax levy issue.

The levy passed with more than 55 percent support, according to unofficial results, with 3,082 votes for the levy and 2,541 against. [More]

CELINA - Republican state representative and Celina resident Keith Faber has been elected Ohio auditor, defeating former U.S. Rep. Zack Space on Tues

CELINA - Mercer County voters came out in large numbers for the gubernatorial election on Tuesday, according to elections officials.

The county's u

Incumbent U.S. Rep. Bob Latta, R-Bowling Green, won re-election on Tuesday over Democrat J. Michael Galbraith and Libertarian Don Kissick, unofficially garnering 63 percent of the vote in early, incomplete results. Galbraith collected 34 percent and Kissick received about 2.5 percent of the vote.

CELINA - Celina Merchant Association members are making final preparations for Saturday's Celina Holiday Open House throughout the city.

Many ret

ROCKFORD - Village residents may see an increase in their utility bills starting the first billing period of next year.

Council members gave first

FORT RECOVERY - Voters have decided to renew a 2.5-mill, five-year storm sewer levy for Fort Recovery.

A total of 591 voters, or 58.9 percent of re

CELINA - The Mercer County Senior Citizens operating levy passed with 76.6 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results from Tuesday's elections.

All three Mercer County fire protection levies on Tuesday's general election ballot were approved by area voters, according to unofficial results.

In Jefferson Township, 66 percent, or 917 votes, were in favor of renewing the 1.5-mill levy and increasing it by 0.3 mills.

ROCKFORD - More than 70 percent of voters supported renewing the village's operating levy during Tuesday's general election, according to unofficial results.

CELINA - Republican Susan Manchester of Waynesfield coasted to victory on Tuesday, winning Ohio's 84th District seat against Democratic rival Joe Monbeck of Wapakoneta.

CENTER TOWNSHIP - A Celina man suffered non-incapacitating injuries in a one-vehicle crash Monday morning.

At about 9:26 a.m., Isaiah W. Schnell, 18, Celina, was traveling southwest on State Route 197 near Howick Road in a 2005 Pontiac sedan, according to a Mercer County Sheriff's Office report.

Voters by a wide margin approved the renewal levy for The Mental Health and Recovery Services Board of Allen, Auglaize and Hardin Counties in Tuesday's general election.

MINSTER - Voters in Minster Local Schools District approved the requested recreation replacement levy on Tuesday, according to unofficial election results.

Both Coldwater Public and Mercer County District libraries' operating levies were renewed by voters during Tuesday's general election, according to unofficial results.

WAPAKONETA - The twin 3-year, 3-mill levies for fire and EMS protection in Minster and Jackson Township each passed in Tuesday's general election, according to unofficial results.

MENDON - Voters in the village of Mendon approved the renewal of the village's 2.5-mill operating levy by a 157-56 margin on Tuesday, according to unofficial results.

CELINA - Mercer County voters on Election Day overwhelmingly supported Mercer County Developmental Disabilities' five-year renewal of a 1.94-mill operating levy.

U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, has beaten Democrat Janet Garret for the third consecutive time to retain the U.S. Fourth Congressional seat, according to unofficial results.

COLDWATER - Incumbent Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Troy, has held on to his seat as representative of Ohio's Eighth Congressional District.

In Mercer Co

DEFIANCE - The race for the state 82nd House District went to incumbent Craig Reidel, R-Defiance, over Democratic challenger, 18-year-old Aden Wyatt Baker, D-Grover Hill, according to Tuesday's unofficial election results.

Ohio state races

Note: Not all statewide precincts had reported by press time. Statewide totals include 8,798 of 8,904 statewide precincts. Winners are in bold face.

NEW BREMEN - When the New Bremen volleyball team looks across the net Thursday at the Nutter Center, they'll see a Monroeville team that is cut from the same cloth.

NEW BREMEN - New Bremen's Elli Roetgerman, Katie Howell, Diana Heitkamp, Chloe Bornhorst and Madison Cordonnier aren't usually on the court when their team is in a tight game.