Fort Recovery News

All four members of the Crouch family of Celina and Bryant, Indiana appeared for arraignments Wednesday morning at 8:30 in Celina Municipal Court in connection with their parts in the theft and sale of at least 22 hogs stolen from the same barn on State-Line Road near Fort Recovery over the past ten weeks.

CELINA, Ohio -- A sheriff in western Ohio near the Indiana state line says four family members have been operating a hog theft ring.

Lima Robert T. Rhine, 75, of LaPorte, Ind., formerly of Lima, died Jan. 23, 2012, at Golden Living Center Fountainview.

The covered bridge near Ceylon is no longer covered. Work to reconstruct the bridge built in the mid-1860s began in early November.

A Fort Recovery man died early this morning, on Mercer-Darke County Line Road, marking the first traffic fatality of the year for Mercer County.