COLDWATER - Mercer Health continues to monitor the fallout from the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which, among other things, will slash Medicaid funding by about $1 trillion over 10 years.

The Christ our Light Family of Parishes will hold a prayer service and thank-you event Sunday to show appreciation to firefighters and other first responders who helped at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church during a massive fire May 29. [More]

CELINA - A 42-year-old Celina man was sentenced to a year in prison on Wednesday in Mercer County Common Pleas Court after physically attacking his father in May.

A massive blaze decimated a commercial business on Tuesday night on the outskirts of Greenville near U.S. Route 127, according to a news release shared on the city fire department's Facebook page.

When St. Marys was the county seat of the original Mercer County in 1824, the Commissioners in session Dec. 6 ordered the platting of a state road extending from the Darke County line north through Fort Recovery and terminating at Willshire, which is now State Route 49.