Nick Schwieterman of Chickasaw will spend the next 24 years behind bars for causing a traffic accident that killed four Maria Stein area teenagers.
He had faced a maximum of 41 years in prison. There is no chance for parole.
Inside a crowded Mercer County courtroom on Wednesday, the 23-year-old man sobbed openly upon learning his fate for driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs, running a stop sign and crashing into another vehicle in the early morning hours of March 15. [More]
Thieves ask for several transactions of smaller bills and leave with more money in the end
By William Kincaid
Celina Detective Ronald Waltmire is confident the police department soon will make an arrest related to an alleged quick-change scheme that left the Wal-Mart Supercenter short of an undisclosed amount of cash.
Police are looking for two black males they suspect perpetrated the scheme on Friday evening. [More]
Parents and siblings of the four young men killed in a March traffic accident wiped away tears as they took turns speaking out in court Wednesday about their ongoing suffering and the children they lost forever.
ST. MARYS - The city school district's five-year financial forecast shows a negative cash balance of more than $1.1 million at the fiscal year ending in 2011, according to the district treasurer's report to the board of education Wednesday evening.
ST. HENRY - Two main cogs of St. Henry's back-to-back regional qualifying teams will head to a pair of solid collegiate volleyball powers, both located in Kentucky.
The Wright State University-Lake Campus men's basketball team could not hold a first-half lead as the University of Cincinnati at Clemont came back to beat the Lakers 77-73 in the Lakers' first home game of the season at the Auglaize-Mercer County Family YMCA Gymnasium.
After last year's triple-overtime contest, one of the best high school games of the playoffs last season, fans all over the western corridor were champing at the bit to see the rematch take place.
