Marion News

Local law enforcement offices have announced their 2013 employees of the year. The Marion Police Department named Officer Todd Monnette and Property Officer Kathy Caudill as the Marion Police Department Officer and Civilian Employee of the Year for 2013 after a vote of their peers.

Troopers reported a trio of deer-related crashes Tuesday night and Wednesday morning across the county.

Members of Marion Harding High School's Art Club are squeezing some of the county's famous landmarks into a small waiting room at Center Street Community Health Center.

The Marion Lecture Recital Music Club invites the public to their last program of 2013.

A Hoboken drug dealer was sentenced to six years in prison in one of the largest heroin seizures on Marion, Ohio history, according to the Marion Star newspaper.

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Passion drives two fledgling businesses in Marion, one whose owner recently put renewed emphasis on her photography career and another whose proprietor is in his fourth decade as a tattoo artist.

Two young Marion men were killed in an early morning car crash today. Jarred J. Bullion, 24 and Eric A. Richie, 26, were killed when two cars collided at the intersection of Ohio 203 and Keener Road in Big Island Township.

Taft Elementary School principal Sean Smith has seen his students take several creative paths to get to school.

If home is where the heart is then I am truly from two vastly different states. I was born on January 22, 1976 in Cleveland, Ohio but was raised close to my mother's side of the family in the area around Marion, Ohio.

A New Jersey drug dealer was sentenced to six years in prison after one of the biggest heroin seizures in Marion.

A college access network dedicated to helping students see the value in higher education has named Marion native Julie McGinnis as its new executive director.

Police arrested five people Thursday afternoon after a search warrant revealed a meth lab on Avondale Avenue.

She has worked at Kingston for 51 2 years as a care assistant in the memory care unit, taking care of the residents' daily needs.

Three people were injured in a head-on collision early Wednesday. Troopers from the Marion post of the Ohio Highway Patrol responded to a two-car crash on Ohio 423 around 7 a.m. Trooper David Shockey said the southbound vehicle, driven by a minor with one minor passenger, failed to yield turning left from Ohio 423 onto Newmans-Cardington Road.

Residents who send their children to Taft Elementary School are invited to a Safe Routes to School meeting from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Dec. 12 to review design plans and talk over options with city employees and design staff.

When Brett Jolliff looked for a way to help cover his educational expenses, he combined his need with his love for fashion and formed The SakShak, an e-commerce business.

Fire Marshal investigators cited an undetermined cause following their inspection of the Thanksgiving Day fire that destroyed a Morrow County Catholic church.

Lincoln Electric's new facility will meet the training needs of manufacturers while getting students excited about their career choice.

The Ohio Department of Transportation will no longer pay for the upkeep of several lights in the city of Marion, leaving the city responsible for any upkeep in the future.