Services for Essie L. DeLong will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the Price-McElroy Funeral Home in Kenton. Burial will follow at Dunkirk Cemetery. Friends may call 4-8 p.m. Thursday. She died at 11:28 p.m. Monday, Feb. 22, 2015 at her residence.

Services for Betty L. Moore will begin at 11 a.m. Friday at the Pentecostal Tabernacle Church in Belle Center by Pastor David Mowery. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Roundhead Township. Friends may call 6-8 p.m. Thursday at the Hanson-Neely Funeral Home in Alger and one hour prior to services Friday at the church.

A memorial service for Scott E. Parthemore will begin at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Price-McElroy Funeral Home in Mount Victory. Friends may call from 3 p.m. until the time of the services.

Hardin County Dog Warden Tammy Ervin sees many animals which break her heart. In recent weeks the number of starving, mistreated or abused animals has increased dramatically at the animal shelter. But Ervin wasn’t prepared for the call she responded to on Tuesday morning.

A bill sponsored by State Rep. Robert Cole Sprague was passed by the Ohio House on Tuesday which will allow more state residents with terminal conditions access to procedures which could potentially save their lives.

The Kenton-Hardin Board of Health hopes to work with Dudley Township trustees in getting a township resident to clean up his property. Little improvement to the property of John Bennett Jr., 14771 CR 209, was noted by Director of Environmental Services Shane Lotts, who visited the property earlier Tuesday.

LIMA, Ohio (AP) — A fired Ohio police officer was convicted Tuesday of raping a 16-year-old girl while he was off duty, hours after he had taken a class that warned it was illegal to have sex with someone underage. A judge found former Lima officer Justin Bentz guilty of rape, kidnapping and sexual battery. He is to be sentenced …

Ben Logan sophomore Nikki Current was named the Central Buckeye Conference Mad River Division Player of the Year after helping the Raiders go undefeated in division play. Current led the Mad River in scoring, assists and steals.

Upper Scioto Valley swept through its Northwest Central Conference girls basketball schedule and captured the league’s top awards. Mike Risner was selected as Coach of the Year and USV junior Emily Patton was named Player of the Year.

Upper Scioto Valley had three players selected to either the first or second All-Northwest Central Conference team for boys basketball, tied for the most with league champion Perry. The Rams and Commodores combined to take up half of the 12 spots.