College Corner News

The cracks and pops of fireworks faded in the background Saturday in some towns as Mother Nature took center stage.

WEST COLLETGE CORNER, Ind. -- The Town of West College Corner in Union County is one of seven government entities making presentations to the Indiana Department of Transportation on Wednesday in hopes of receiving federal funding for Local Public Agency projects.

Oxford police arrested a 22-year-old Indiana man who was reportedly trying to impress a woman by "trying to be a bad boy." Officers on patrol observed Dennis Meadors Jr., 5676 E. Sand Run Road, West College Corner, Ind., transferring objects between two vehicles in the Circle K parking lot, at 327 W. Spring St., on April 18.

For the first time in five years, the Miami University Habitat for Humanity chapter is the primary sponsor for a house project.

Police cited an Oxford woman who reportedly blew a hole in her tire while driving home from a College Corner bar on March 23.

A 23-year-old woman has been charged with making false alarms after apparently making up a story that she was robbed and raped during the early morning hours of March 18, according to Oxford Twp.

Police are searching for a man who allegedly kidnapped, raped and robbed a woman at gunpoint in rural Butler County.

A woman in her twenties reported being kidnapped at gunpoint in College Corner early Wednesday morning.

Margaret Brenneman, 89, died Feb. 6, 2009, at Mount Pleasant Retirement Village.

Fostoria school board took no action Monday on placing a tax issue on the May ballot.

Oxford's Drug and Alcohol Enforcement Unit was busy over the weekend, seizing two pounds of marijuana, approximately $6,000 in cash and several dozen pieces of drug paraphernalia during a series of drug busts.

The Butler County grand jury returned 25 indictments during its first session in January.

A prosecutor began calling witnesses as the murder trial of former Findlay resident Corey S. Flugga got under way Monday in Licking County Common Pleas Court.

Emergency crews responded at around 11:45 a.m. Friday, Jan. 2, to a head-on collision involving at least two vehicles that happened at the intersection of Walnut Street and U.S. 27 in College Corner.

A home at 213 Country Club Drive was called a "total loss" by Oxford Fire Chief John Detherage, who said Monday, Dec.