A 12-year-old Mendon boy died at his home over the weekend, the victim of an apparent suicide by hanging, according to Mercer County Sheriff's Office reports.
Raymond Whetsel, 12, 204 W. Walnut St., was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after 7:30 a.m. Sunday. [More]
FORT RECOVERY - Students at the Fort Recovery Elementary/Middle School are into technology for learning like never before in the school's history, according to various officials.
The school's computer lab was completed at the beginning of the school year with the help of a $182,126 Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) grant. [More]
Solid shooting from Minster golfers Ben Hogenkamp and Adam Sherman allowed the Wildcats to run the table in the Midwest Athletic Conference, capturing the conference boys golf tournament on Saturday at The Fox's Den to go along with a 9-0 regular season record. [More]
ST. MARYS - Finding builders for the little houses recently placed in Heritage Park happened while Mary Maurer was under the hair dryer at a local beauty shop.
MARIA STEIN - For the last time, Rosemary Moeller checks the black residential mailbox labeled "Maria Stein News" outside her breezeway door, only to find it empty.
MARIA STEIN - Highly-anticipated matchups don't always live up to their hype, but Saturday's showdown in prime time between the state's top two ranked teams in Division IV volleyball certainly did.
It went down to the wire for two local boys cross country teams as Minster, New Bremen, Coldwater and St. Marys went to the Van Wert County Hospital Cross Country Invitational on Saturday.
ROSSBURG - J.J. Yeley in midgets, Brad Sweet in sprints and Dave Darland in Silver Crown captured the three USAC features on Saturday night of the Eldora Speedway Four Crown Nationals. Joey Saldana won the World of Outlaws portion of the event on Friday night.
