COLDWATER - With the passage of a tax levy last week, Coldwater school officials have some room to breathe financially but are still warning of deficit spending in fiscal year 2029 should school funding provisions in House Bill 96 make the final cut of the state's biennium budget.
WAPAKONETA - Auglaize County Sheriff Mike Vorhees and his jail staff are about to unveil a substantial jail renovation that expanded its capacity and improved its capabilities. [More]
CELINA - Walmart at Harbor Square in Celina was evacuated for about half an hour Wednesday night as law enforcement swept the building after being alerted about a possible bomb inside.
ST. MARYS - St. Marys City Schools Board of Education members established a new capital improvement fund and transferred $9.25 million from the general fund into it at their regular board meeting on Wednesday. [More]
ROCKFORD - Parkway Board of Education members established a capital projects fund for facility projects in response to the state's proposed biennium budget, in which schools in Mercer County could stand to lose $3.5 million over the next two years.
CELINA - Two people were sentenced in Mercer County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday for charges related to drug possession, with one facing additional charges of endangering children.
CELINA - A former Celina business owner indicted on over 100 felony counts for allegedly defrauding people out of more than $1 million was taken into custody on Wednesday after allegedly violating the terms of his bond for the second time this year.
The Mercer County Historical Society has a unique piece in its collection - a small, white baby coffin bearing the German inscription "Ruhe in Frieden," meaning "Rest in Peace." What sets the piece apart is the small window set into the lid.
A two-vehicle accident on Tuesday night in northwestern Darke County left a Hollansburg man in critical condition, while a Fort Recovery man in the other vehicle was uninjured, according to a news release from Darke County Sheriff Mark Whittaker.
The weather was a little more cooperative on Wednesday as the Western Buckeye League opened its track and field championships at Fred J. Brown Stadium in Defiance.
