Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Schwieterman given less than maximum sentence
By Shelley Grieshop
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]
Obituaries on November 13th, 2008
Forrest "Rick" Cline, 61, of Greenville, died of natural causes on Nov. 12, 2008, at Heartland of Greenville. [More]
Former St. Marys resident Rosalie M. Decker, 92, died at 3:50 a.m. Nov. 12, 2008, at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital, St. Marys. [More]
Onolee B. "Onnie" Piehl, 89, 106 W. Spring St., New Knoxville, died at 8:25 p.m. Nov. 11, 2008, at Otterbein St. Marys Retirement Community. [More]
Erma Wendel, 86, 58 W. Main St., Burkettsville, died at 8:23 p.m. Nov. 12, 2008 [More]
Local pictures on November 13th, 2008
Subscriber stories on November 13th, 2008
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.
Marion Local vs. West Jefferson
A rematch from last year's Region 20 final pits two teams that have been playing strong all season.
The Roughriders are 10-2, losing to Division-VI
Coldwater vs. Archbishop Alter
Well, the time of The Rematch has come.
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.