WAPAKONETA — The Riverdale girls basketball team couldn’t hold a second-half lead for the second straight day at the Wapakoneta Holiday Tournament on Tuesday. Marion Local (7-4) controlled the second half to rally and defeat the Falcons 66-57.

MANSFIELD — Mansfield Christian defeated Ridgemont 52-37 on Tuesday in nonconference girls basketball.

Services for Lauren E. James will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Schindewolf-Stout-Creates Funeral Home in Kenton by the Rev. Tomas Pistora. Burial will be in Grove Cemetery in Kenton with full military rites conducted by AMVETS Post 1994. Friends may call 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. today at the funeral home, where an Elks Lodge of Sorrow service will begin at 7:45 p.m. Visitation also will be one hour prior to the service.

Misty Rose Imboden, 304 1/2 W. Franklin St., reported being attacked by a very large, brown dog while walking near the intersection of Franklin and Barron streets.

When Pat Katterjohn was a graduating senior at Kenton High School, she took a part-time job in the Kenton Times circulation department. Since that day, Pat met her future husband in the mail room, helped her son deliver papers and made friends with the people who look forward to her bringing them their daily paper.

In May of 2010, the Kenton Board of Education turned to the school district community for help. The district faced a $2 million budget hole and the board enacted a plan to cut more than $1.2 million for the 2010-2011 school year. Voters were asked to provide the other part of the financial solution.

The Kenton Times will not publish a newspaper on Friday, New Year’s Day or Saturday, Jan. 2. Our New Year’s Eve paper will go to press earlier on Thursday morning and is expected back in Kenton by noon. The Times office will close at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Thursday’s paper will feature all the advertising circulars normally in Saturday’s edition, along …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Opposition was strongest in suburbia to Ohio’s first-in-the-nation effort to legalize both medical and recreational marijuana in a single vote, according to an analysis of final election results. About 7 in 10 voters in the counties that ring Columbus and Toledo voted against last fall’s Issue 3, while more than 60 percent voted against it in …

LEWISTOWN — After a competitive first quarter Monday night, Kenton turned it on and dominated Indian Lake in girls basketball. The Wildcats (6-4) led by five after the first quarter and won 86-27.

DOLA — Hardin Northern used a defensive switch in the second quarter to keep Ada close at halftime Monday night in nonconference girls basketball. The Bulldogs turned it on in the second half though, outscoring Hardin Northern by 31 points for a 65-29 victory.