Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued March 22 at 5:43PM EDT until March 23 at 12:00AM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 73 IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN INDIANA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 8 COUNTIES
IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA
FAYETTE UNION WAYNE
IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA
DEARBORN FRANKLIN OHIO RIPLEY SWITZERLAND
IN KENTUCKY THIS WATCH INCLUDES 3 COUNTIES
IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY
BOONE CAMPBELL KENTON
IN OHIO THIS WATCH INCLUDES 32 COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL OHIO
DELAWARE FAIRFIELD FAYETTE FRANKLIN HOCKING LICKING MADISON PICKAWAY UNION
IN SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO
ADAMS HIGHLAND PIKE ROSS SCIOTO
IN SOUTHWEST OHIO
BROWN BUTLER CLERMONT CLINTON HAMILTON WARREN
IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO
AUGLAIZE CHAMPAIGN CLARK DARKE GREENE HARDIN LOGAN MERCER MIAMI MONTGOMERY PREBLE SHELBY
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABERDEEN, ADA, ALEXANDRIA, AURORA, BATESVILLE, BEAVERCREEK, BELLEFONTAINE, BELLEVUE, BLANCHESTER, BRIGHT, BROOKVILLE, BURLINGTON, CAMDEN, CELINA, CHILLICOTHE, CIRCLEVILLE, COLDWATER, CONNERSVILLE, COVINGTON, DAY HEIGHTS, DAYTON, DELAWARE, DILLSBORO, DOWNTOWN CINCINNATI, DOWNTOWN COLUMBUS, DOWNTOWN DAYTON, EATON, ERLANGER, FAIRBORN, FAIRFIELD, FLORENCE, FORT THOMAS, FRANKLIN, GEORGETOWN, GREENDALE, GREENFIELD, GREENVILLE, HAMILTON, HIDDEN VALLEY, HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, HILLSBORO, INDEPENDENCE, KENTON, KETTERING, LANCASTER, LANDEN, LAWRENCEBURG, LEBANON, LIBERTY, LOGAN, LONDON, MANCHESTER, MARYSVILLE, MASON, MIDDLETOWN, MILAN, MILFORD, MINSTER, MOUNT CARMEL, MOUNT ORAB, MOUNT REPOSE, MULBERRY, NEW BREMEN, NEWARK, NEWPORT, OAKBROOK, OSGOOD, OXFORD, PEEBLES, PICKERINGTON, PIKE LAKE, PIKETON, PIQUA, PLAIN CITY, PORTSMOUTH, RICHMOND, RIPLEY, RISING SUN, SEAMAN, SIDNEY, SPRINGBORO, SPRINGFIELD, ST. MARYS, SUMMERSIDE, TIPP CITY, TROY, URBANA, VERSAILLES, VEVAY, WAPAKONETA, WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, WAVERLY, WEST COLLEGE CORNER, WEST JEFFERSON, WEST UNION, WHEELERSBURG, WILMINGTON, WINCHESTER, WITHAMSVILLE, AND XENIA.
Today 73° Today 73° slight chance 32° 32° likely Tomorrow 46° Tomorrow 46° 30° 30°
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Obituaries on October 5th, 2010
Esther Evelyn Snider, 91, Mendon, died at 7:15 p.m. Oct. 2, 2010, at The Laurels of Shane Hill in Rockford. [More]
Leonard H. Homan, 94, Coldwater, died Oct. 1, 2010, at Mercer County Community Hospital in Coldwater. [More]
Dennis Martin LaRue, 65, Benson, Ariz., died Oct. 1, 2010, at Tucson Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz. [More]
Stories on October 5th, 2010
84-year-old victim was suspect's grandmother
VAN WERT - A 36-year-old man will remain in jail without bond after being charged with the murder of his grandmother in her Van Wert home Friday evening.
Carp derbies may return to lake
ST. MARYS - Carp derbies, popular on Grand Lake in the 1950s, may be held as a way to reduce the lake's population of rough fish and increase game fish. [More]
Manufacturing important in Ohio, nation, Brown says
MINSTER - U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown chose the nation's largest yogurt production plant to stress the importance of manufacturing on the homefront as well as throughout the country.
"...to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health...."
MINSTER - Kevin an
Second phase of project will put city in compliance
St. MARYS - Customers will not see an increase in utility rates when the city launches the second installment of a sewer relief project next year. The EPA issued orders in 2006 stating the city must remove all overflows and bypasses by June 2013.
FORT RECOVERY - Village council members Monday night unanimously approved an ordinance establishing a surcharge for industries discharging high amounts of pollutants in the wastewater system.
MARIA STEIN - The Marion Local volleyball team did nothing to hurt their status as the state's top-ranked team in Division IV on Monday against Fort Loramie.
CELINA - For the last 21 years, the Grand Lake Mariners have been a fixture on the summer entertainment schedule for many area residents.
However, summer college baseball at Jim Hoess Field in Westview Park may be coming to an end. [More]
Compiled by Ryan Hines and Gary R. Rasberry
A Celina goal with 10 minutes left in the game salvaged a 2-2 for the Green and White in Western Buckeye League soccer action on Monday.
Local ag official hopes results could change proposed ODNR rule
Jim Hoorman is seeking a brigade of individuals to provide him with labor and supplies to conduct cover crop research in the Grand Lake Watershed.
Mercer, Auglaize counties
Both Mercer and Auglaize counties are among 79 in Ohio that have been designated agricultural natural disaster areas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Local pictures on October 5th, 2010