Cold Weather Advisory issued December 13 at 2:21AM EST until December 15 at 11:00AM EST by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
* WHAT...Very cold wind chills as low as 10 to 15 below zero expected. * WHERE...Portions of east central and southeast Indiana, northeast and northern Kentucky, and central, south central, southwest, and west central Ohio. * WHEN...From 7 PM this evening to 11 AM EST Monday. * IMPACTS...The cold wind chills as low as 15 below zero could result in hypothermia or frostbite if precautions are not taken.
Winter Weather Advisory issued December 13 at 12:42AM EST until December 14 at 7:00AM EST by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 3 and 5 inches. * WHERE...Portions of east central Indiana and central and west central Ohio. * WHEN...From 1 PM this afternoon to 7 AM EST Sunday. * IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions.
Local school districts set new cell phone policies
By Betty Lawrence
The advances in cell phone capabilities have caused a number of headaches for area school administrators.
The Daily Standard has learned most school districts now have cell phone policies, some allowing cell phones in the buildings, but they must be turned off and out of sight, while others strictly prohibit them from being brought into school. [More]
Authorities found the bodies of an elderly woman and her son at their Fort Recovery home Friday night after a concerned friend reported seeing neither of them for several days.
Mercer County Sheriff's deputies forcibly entered the home at 403 S. Wayne St. shortly before 9 p.m. after a family friend arrived on the scene and said the son had threatened suicide several days earlier. [More]
Blanche M. Broyles, 81, 03954 Rainbow Drive, St. Marys, died at 10:20 p.m. April 6, 2007, at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital, St. Marys. [More]
Scott A. Thees, 41, 601 Touvelle St., Celina, died at 1:35 p.m. April 5, 2007, at Mercer County Community Hospital, Coldwater. Death was due to natural causes. [More]
David R. Williams, 63, 403 S. Wayne St., Fort Recovery, was discovered dead April 6, 2007, at his residence from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. [More]
A Shelby County man was to be arraigned this morning in Sidney Municipal Court on charges of aggravated murder, rape and kidnapping in connection with the death of an elderly Fort Loramie woman. Heavy security was expected to be in place for the proceeding.
Robert Boggs, newly-appointed director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA), said he wants to tour Grand Lake and may attend the annual legislative day on the lake sponsored by the private Lake Development Corporation (LDC).
