WAPAKONETA - A grand jury indicted Christine Ann Steinke, 48. a former Wapakoneta utilities office clerk, Thursday on 15 felony charges related to the alleged theft of around $150,000 from the city of Wapakoneta, according to a news release from the Ohio Attorney General's Office. [More]

CELINA - Celina school officials have overhauled the district's literacy program, fundamentally changing the way teachers instruct and students learn how to read and write.

CELINA - Celina City Schools has been awarded a $200,000 state grant to accelerate literacy, particularly among vulnerable student populations.

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It's an age-old story. An old-timer retires, reconsiders and steps back into the arena. Tom Brady, 45, shed his cleats after 22 years last January. That retirement lasted 40 days.

COLDWATER - The third quarter was not kind to Coldwater.

The Cavalier offense went flat as Kenton matched its first half scoring output in the third quarter alone and looked poised to make it a rough evening for the homestanding Cavs. [More]

ST. HENRY - The shots were not falling for St. Henry in the first quarter Friday night.

They were after that.

Luke Beyke and Evan Bowers pitched

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Minster pulled away over the final three quarters to open its boys basketball season with a 56-34 win over Houston in a battle of Wildcats on Friday night in Shelby County.

December is a tranquil time for many fly fishermen. They sit at their workbench with magnifiers perched on nose tips, a cam vise before them, as they pull beads, feathers, and foam out of containers to create small works of art-otherwise known as dry flies and wet flies.