ROCKFORD - A state law enforcement agency tasked with investigating suspicious fires and associated crimes is probing a blaze that destroyed two buildings downtown early Wednesday morning.

  MINSTER - Village officials have signed off on a heavy slate of street, building and utilities projects this year with the help of a strong local economy and millions of dollars in grants. [More]

CELINA - Nearly $600,000 will flow to Mercer County for the construction of two-stage ditches designed to reduce nutrients that feed toxic algal blooms.

WAPAKONETA - The Auglaize County Sheriff's Office is in line to receive a thermal drone to help locate missing persons and criminal suspects.

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CELINA - Mercer County Board of Elections members this week voted in a new chairperson and swapped the roles of its two directors, per a longstanding board policy.

BENTON RIDGE - St. Marys coach Dan Hegemier wanted his team to foul after an Austin Parks free throw.

Van Wert coach Ben Laudick wanted a timeout. [More]

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St. Marys' Jack Boos will represent the Roughriders next week at the Division I boys state bowling tournament after earning a qualifying berth at the district tournament held Thursday at Star Lanes at the Harbor in Port Clinton.

VANDALIA - Tri-Village was in the driver's seat from the waning seconds of the first quarter, but Marion Local kept battling all the way through.

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