Auglaize and Mercer counties rank among the top counties in the state in business growth and incoming investment.

Auglaize County in 2019 ranked eighth in the state for incoming investment.

CELINA - Elections officials are on the hunt again for a deputy director after Kristi Timmerman submitted her resignation to the board of elections, chairperson Toni Slusser said on Friday afternoon.

Wright State University's nursing college has been ranked one of the state's best.

The university's College of Nursing and Health was ranked No. 3 [More]

CELINA - A Celina man was sentenced to more than eight and a half years in prison for assaulting his wife, evading authorities for about two months and then threatening his adult daughter not to testify against him. [More]

WAPAKONETA - The final pretrial hearing for a Columbus-area woman charged in connection with a 2018 deadly shooting in St. Marys has been postponed until Feb. 25 in Auglaize County Common Pleas Court.

CELINA - A Celina man was sentenced to four years in prison and five years of community control sanctions after his conviction on four felony charges, including intimidation, violation of a protection order and menacing by stalking.

CELIAN - City officials likely will remain landlords of a two-story home the city inherited when it was forced to assume ownership of the 19-acre North Grove Cemetery in late 2013.

NEW BREMEN - New Bremen police officers are searching for three male subjects who broke into several vehicles and spent hundreds of dollars at the New Bremen Dollar General using stolen credit cards.

ST. MARYS - St. Marys police officials are investigating a breaking and entering case at Villa Nova Drive-Thru that reportedly took place early Friday morning.

VERSAILLES - Parkway had its chance to tango with the top-ranked Tigers of Versailles on Friday night.

It turned out to be a night of missed chances for Parkway.

COLDWATER - Jim Melton couldn't ask for a better performance from his Fort Recovery squad on Friday night.

The Indians opened the game with a 16-0 run and posted their best defensive effort of the season in a 46-27 win over Coldwater for their fourth straight win and 11th of the season. [More]

NEW BREMEN - The game seemed to hang on every possession.

For 32 minutes, Minster and New Bremen were never separated by more than four points one way or the other.

MINSTER - After helping Minster to two Midwest Athletic Conference boys golf championships and two state tournament appearances, Grant Voisard is ready to move on.

Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry

Freshman Austin Parks had a career night as St. Marys improved to 11-3 with a 66-43 win over Kenton on Friday night at Murotech Court. The loss drops the Wildcats out of a share of the Western Buckeye League lead at 9-7 and 4-1.