CELINA - Mercer County Sheriff's officials are gradually restoring the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program to its pre-recession scope.
County commissioners recently approved sheriff Jeff Grey's request to purchase a 2015 Chevrolet Equinox with 33,126 miles from Kerns Ford-Lincoln for $16,099 for the DARE program. Kerns submitted the lowest of three bids for the program's second vehicle. [More]
Wesley "Gene" Schenck, 89, of Saint Marys, Ohio, and formerly of Dayton, died Wednesday, November 15, 2017, at Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus. [More]
CLEVELAND - A 27-year-old Toronto man was arrested on Thursday morning in Orlando, Florida, charged with coercion and enticement and the transfer of obscene material to an 11-year-old Auglaize County girl.
CELINA - Officials are still trying to total the damages caused by the two tornadoes on Nov. 5, according to a spokesman with the National Weather Service in Wilmington.