Son says mother made cell phone call from assailant's car trunk
By Margie Wuebker
The Shelby County Sheriff's Office continues to investigate the apparent abduction of an 86-year-old Fort Loramie woman who used her cell phone to call 911 from the perpetrator's car trunk.
Victoria M. Eilerman apparently was confronted by someone who walked into her 7990 state Route 705 home early Thursday afternoon. Signs of a struggle as well as blood found at the scene lead authorities to believe the elderly woman did not go willingly and they do not suspect robbery as a possible motive. [More]
A $3 million soybean extrusion plant that produces soybean oil and soybean meal could be in production as early as this summer, if construction on the facility in Rockford stays on track.
Scott Boulis, facility manager at Mercer Landmark, spoke about the project during Thursday's monthly agriculture breakfast meeting in Celina. [More]
Viola A.M. Headapohl, 92, formerly of 109 E. Front St., New Bremen, died at 9:17 a.m. April 5, 2007, at Mercer County Community Hospital, Coldwater. [More]
NEW BREMEN - School officials and board members have begun preliminary discussions about the future of the existing facilities, as New Bremen has jumped further up the Ohio School Facilities Commission (OSFC) list in recent years.
Mercer County Commissioners agreed Thursday to put local Wabash Telephone Co. officials in touch with the firm that audited county telephone line usage, seeking ways to save the county money.
A Montezuma-area man has been sentenced to community control sanctions including jail time in a Mercer County Common Pleas Court case involving attempted felonious assault.
Celina graduate Scott Boley was named the Mid-American Conference's West Division Player of the Week for the second time after a spectacular showing last week.
