CELINA - Ohio's sports betting market that launches Sunday is estimated by the Ohio legislature to be $1.1 billion in 2023 and $3.1 billion in 2024, with taxable receipts pegged at $74 million and $243 million in each respective year.

ST. MARYS - City council members on Thursday set into motion a $1.5 million pedestrian safety project on Indiana Avenue.

Councilors at their last meeting of the year entered into an agreement with the Ohio Department of Transportation to proceed with the project.

CELINA -An out-of-control midsize SUV struck and heavily damaged two homes on West Logan Street following a two-vehicle accident on Thursday afternoon. [More]

CELINA - A fire broke out at Grand Lake Family Dentistry on Thursday night, causing an estimated $20,000 in damage to the practice that was built just a year-and-a-half ago.

CELINA - To use an analogy from another sport, Celina felt like a football team defending a goal line stand in the fourth quarter of the 37th OVISCO Classic. [More]

NEW BREMEN - After St. Marys trailed for much of the second half, a late surge tied the game with 1:32 to play.

But New Bremen was the sharper team most of the night, and in the final 90 seconds, the Cardinals delivered again.

Compiled By Tom Haines and Gary R. Rasberry

The Minster girls basketball team held off a fourth-quarter charge by Arcanum for a 59-52 road win on Thursday.