CELINA - A 41-year-old Celina man was sentenced to over 40 years in prison Friday in Mercer County Common Pleas Court after admitting to forcibly raping three girls aged 3-8 on seven occasions from 2012 to 2014.
Visiting judge Jeffrey Ingraham sentenced Joshua R. Mullins to 42 years in prison with 123 days credit on seven counts of first-degree felony rape. The imposed sentence was comprised of six-year, consecutive terms on each charge. [More]
COLDWATER - A new business on the west edge of Coldwater has found a unique niche selling maintenance and equipment components to a range of customers across the industrial, commercial and residential sectors.
Alcohol is believed to be a factor in a two-vehicle motor vehicle accident that left a 23-year-old Lima man with life-threatening injuries on Interstate 75 in Auglaize County Thursday night, a news release from the Wapakoneta Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol states.
After having their home opener canceled due to track conditions last Saturday, Celina hosted its annual Celina Relays at the Varsity Track on Friday evening.
Marcella M. "Sally" Mescher, age 96, of Versailles, passed away at 9:18 a.m. Tuesday, April 7, 2026, at EverHeart Hospice Care Center in Greenville. [More]
Longtime St. Marys resident James J. Boehmer, 90, died at 2:45 p.m. April 8 at Otterbein St. Marys SeniorLife Community after an extended illness. [More]
ST. HENRY - St. Henry Schools hired a Coldwater native this week to serve as their athletic director starting next year, ushering in a new era and adding an experienced educator and coach to lead its athletic programs.
Coldwater posted its best offensive output in over 30 years in opening Midwest Athletic Conference baseball play with a 37-2 win over New Knoxville in five innings on Thursday night at Veterans Field.
CELINA - A host of community members and law enforcement personnel, including one of Gov. Mike DeWine's cabinet members, were on hand Wednesday night as 18 cadets comprising the 2026 Wright State University-Lake Campus Police Academy were awarded certificates of completion. [More]
CELINA - Health district staff welcomed a Coldwater retiree with years of waste management experience to the county board of health on Wednesday at his first meeting since his March appointment.
ROCKFORD - Parkway Board of Education members heard the district is in the process of updating the preschool playground to accommodate state law.
Superintendent Laura Young reported that the district will move forward with hiring Garmann Miller at $16,000 to start the bidding process for the work.
CELINA - The Ohio Department of Transportation is in the midst of realigning several district boundaries, an undertaking that will move Mercer and Auglaize counties from District 7 to District 1.
CHICKASAW - Although councilors gave first reading to ordinances Wednesday night to raise water and sewer rates, the increases will be offset by the elimination of a debt service charge that goes off the books this summer.
Parkway turned a healthy lead into a blowout with a 12-run sixth inning to remain unbeaten on the softball season with a 23-6 win over Crestview in Wednesday action at Owen Pugh Field in Convoy.
MINSTER - After ex-tremely high winds from a recent storm snapped 19 power poles on the east side of Minster, the village got by with a lot of help from their friends through long-standing mutual aid agreements that brought in reinforcements.
CELINA - Tuesday was a clutch kind of day for the Celina baseball team.
The Bulldogs made some big plays to limit Ottawa-Glandorf to one run and clutch hitting allowed Celina to extend a one-run lead into a 5-1 victory in the Western Buckeye League opener at Montgomery Field. The Bulldogs improve to 2-1 on the season. [More]
COLDWATER - A recent meeting over facility standards and ongoing discussions between district officials have left some Coldwater parents concerned about the future of their Head Start classroom.
ROCKFORD - Rockford councilors welcomed the village's new police chief, a former detective with the Mercer County Sheriff's Office, on Tuesday at their regular council meeting.
CELINA - A rapidly deteriorating, substandard bridge carrying Siegrist-Jutte Road over the Wabash River in Recovery and Washington townships is slated to be replaced in the coming months.
PORTLAND, Ind. - For the second time in less than a week, Portland police officers responded to a bomb threat, this time at MSSL Wiring System at 700 Industrial Drive.
Ohio's unemployment rate dropped in January, down to 4.3% from 4.4% in December, although rates in Mercer and Auglaize counties rose. County-level survey results for January were released this week by the Department of Job & Family Services.
