Like most libraries, the Mary Lou Johnson-Hardin County District Library is popular with young children and students. It is a place where they can enjoy story time or be involved in the fun at Harry Potter Night. But it is not as easy to bring adults to the Kenton library. ...

Late Monday afternoon, Nathan Getz nervously prepared to do something that two years ago would have seemed impossible. At that time, Getz said, he had one change of clothing and was sleeping every night on a couch at his parents’ home. Now he found himself scheduled to speak to a packed gallery in the Hardin County Common Pleas courtroom.

For the second time in three months, local law enforcement officers are being called heroes for going beyond the normal call of duty in Saturday’s shooting incident. Officer Skyler Newfer was one of two Kenton policemen who responded to a domestic situation and was wounded by a fleeing suspect.

A former Hardin County official is dead after wounding a Kenton police officer following a domestic incident that started in the city late Saturday afternoon. The suspect, identified by authorities as Steve C. Davis, suffered a fatal gunshot wound. He was a former county dog warden and previous member of the BKP ambulance staff. The police officer, Skyler Newfer, suffered …

When he took office, Hardin County Sheriff Keith Everhart vowed to make training of his staff a top priority. Everhart and his deputies saw the potential of transforming the former cafeteria area of the Jacob Parrott Safety Center into a place for that purpose.

A rural McGuffey building that housed two businesses structure was a total loss following an electrical fire late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. It was located seven miles southwest of Kenton on Ohio 67

MOUNT VICTORY — A new program at Ridgemont High School is arming students with certificates which are expected to help them snare jobs or gain entrance to colleges. The online program, called iCEF. Stephanie Jolliff, the agricultural education teacher and FFA advisor at Ridgemont, said the classes started last January and by the summer the students had their certification.

The heat is on. The exhilarating heat of competition, the verbal heat of talking trash and the spicy heat of homemade chili. All the bragging and name calling will come to a good-natured end on Saturday at the conclusion of the first chili cookoff between members of the area law enforcement agencies and the local firefighters.

ADA — From a cow standing in a field to the kickoff of the Super Bowl, a group of people who work in Ada can tell you how to make a football better than anyone else in the world.