Mercer County News

When a vehicle starts to sink in water local authorities advise to roll down the windows immediately and exit the vehicle.

A surprising and heartbreaking number of people have driven their cars accidentally into roadside ponds just recently.

CELINA The Mercer County Sheriff's Office was investigating an apparent suicide Thursday on Township Line Road in northern Mercer County.

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.

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

Matt Huffman, R-Lima, visited with a class Tuesday at Wells Academy, the site of the governor's State of the State Address.

Police in Mercer County, Ohio and Jay County Indiana have busted an operation where hogs were being stolen from a farm so they could be sold to a livestock company.

CELINA Mercer County Engineer Jim Wiechart is warning people to not put signs, posters or advertisements on trees or utility poles in the right-of-way of any public highway.

A Celina woman has been charged for a break-in earlier this month at a Celina business, Mercer County Sheriff Jeff Grey said Saturday.

Douglas N. Fonner, age 27, of Mendon, Ohio was arrested Jan. 20 and is currently being held in the Mercer County Detention Center on charges of contempt of court for violating a condition of bond in a prior breaking and entering case.

St. Marys Fred Aukerman Jr., 81, formerly of Findlay, died Jan. 25, 2012, at Mercer County Community Hospital, Coldwater.

The Western Ohio Educational Foundation is celebrating 50 yeras of promoting high education in Van Wert and surrounding counties.

MENDON The Mercer County Sheriff's Office will file numerous charges against a Mendon man in connection with several business break-ins. Douglas N. Fonner, 27, of Mendon, was being held in the Mercer County Detention Center on contempt charges for violating a condition of bail in a previous breaking and entering case, Sheriff Jeff Grey said.

COLDWATER, Ohio - Mercer Health officials announced they will begin a new public education program entitled "Mercer Healthy Living Series." The first one will be held at Mercer County Community Hospital on Monday, Feb.

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.

Van Wert Middle School has once again been designated an Ohio School to Watch. The school first earned the designation in the 2005-06 school year and has remained on the list.

White-out conditions and a snow-covered road led to the death of a Coldwater man Friday.