Summaries of the week's news appear in the Sunday edition. These current and past weekly chronologies are online as are day-by-day links to past stories and deaths.

• MERCER: Lawsuit: Local rep raided escrow cash; Insurance co. says at least $600,000 lost

• PERRY TOWNSHIP: Man: Ham assault 'just lot of baloney'

• SHENANGO VALLEY: Cops: Stolen van, dairy theft linked

• GROVE CITY: Vandals cause $6,500 damage at park

• LINESVILLE: Old dump allegedly sickening family of 5

• GROVE CITY: Borough cops sporting new duds

• HERMITAGE: Ohio man pleads guilty to toting gun

• FARRELL: Centennial Place sets homeowner session

• HUBBARD TOWNSHIP: Church turns 100; Chestnut Ridge started in Sharon

• Walter Franklin Anthony, Mercer.
  
• Mary Elizabeth Fasnacht, West Salem Township, formerly of Greenville.
  
• Beatrice Ruth Smith Hurlbert, West Salem Township, formerly of Jamestown.