Flood Warning issued September 19 at 9:56PM EDT until September 20 at 6:00PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers... St. Marys River at Rockford. * WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast. * WHERE...St. Marys River at Rockford. * WHEN...Until Sunday evening. * IMPACTS...At 13.0 feet, State Route 117 near Route 118 north of Rockford is water-covered and closed. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - At 9:40 PM EDT Saturday the stage was 13.1 feet. - Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 13.2 feet just after midnight tonight. It will then fall below flood stage early tomorrow afternoon. - Flood stage is 13.0 feet.
Gail M. Rutschilling, 49, 309 E. College St., Coldwater, died Sept. 1, 2006, at Mercer County Community Hospital, Coldwater. Death was due to natural causes. [More]
Pearl E. Schmidt, 84, of Rockford, died at 8:58 p.m. Sept. 2, 2006, at The Laurels of Shane Hill, Rockford, where she had been a patient since Aug. 29. [More]
Paul Billerman, an outspoken critic of plans to build a new county jail, had an opportunity to see the inside of the old one after being arrested for telecommunications harassment Sunday afternoon.
The Lake Improvement Association (LIA) last week mailed petitions containing almost 2,000 signatures to candidates for Ohio governor, Ken Blackwell and Ted Strickland, about the plight of Grand Lake. [More]
A Celina man died Friday afternoon at his home, the victim of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest.
Mercer County Sheriff's deputies responded to 3505 state Route 705 around 4 p.m. after relatives found the body of John W. Tonkin, 59, lying on the seat of his pickup truck.
A meeting on a USDA program that pays landowners to plant habitat along the edges of farm fields for bobwhite quail and other wildlife will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 13 at the Mercer County Central Services Building.
It was appropriate that two Mercer County teams would battle it out for the championship of the Mercer Health Volleyball Invitational in Celina on Saturday. [More]
A number of area teams traveled to Greenville on Saturday to take part in the Treaty City Invitational, which brought a number of top cross country squads from both the northwest and southwest districts to compete.
