President Joe Biden pledged Monday that the federal government would help people throughout the Southeast recover from the devastation of Hurricane Helene and its aftermath, and said he expects to ask Congress for emergency funding in the weeks ahead.

The Justice Department Friday announced the unsealing of an indictment charging Iranian nationals, and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) employees, Masoud Jalili, 36, also known as, مسعود جلیلی, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri, 34, also known as, سید علی آقامیری, and Yaser Balaghi, 37, also known as, یاسر بلاغی (the Conspirators), with an alleged conspiracy with others known and unknown to hack into accounts of current and former U.S. officials, members of the media, nongovernmental organizations and individuals associated with U.S. political campaigns.

Highlighted in Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign as one of the major crises facing the country, climate change has received much less attention in the 2024 race for the presidency.

The overall financial wellbeing of women working in state and local government is mixed, with both positive indicators and troubling challenges according to a new report from MissionSquare Research Institute.

The heads of prominent civil rights and anti-discrimination groups, along with faith-based groups, have joined a list of supporters of Ohio Issue 1, which would reform the redistricting process by replacing politicians with citizen commissioners.

Federal safety inspectors found a crew working aboard the Cuyahoga, a commercial iron ore vessel moored at the Port of Ashtabula, narrowly avoided disaster after a large fire erupted as they welded off paint in a cargo hold, an incident their employer allegedly could have avoided by following U.S. Department of Labor safety regulations.

Fortified with work authorizations and a new freedom, Haitian immigrants are moving out of their longtime strongholds in Florida and New York, often finding good jobs while remaining wary of how they will be received in new places in the Midwest and South.

The Justice Department Friday announced that the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) arrested 3,421 violent fugitives, including 216 for homicide, 803 for assault and 482 for weapons offenses, during the latest phase of its high-impact fugitive apprehension initiative called Operation North Star FY 2024 (ONS FY24).

Former President Donald Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, is slated to speak in Butler, Pa. on Oct. 5 at the site of the first assassination attempt against him, his campaign announced Wednesday.

In honor of the life and service of Perrysburg Township Firefighter and Paramedic Troy Bernhard, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has ordered the flags of the United States and the state of Ohio to be lowered upon all public buildings and grounds throughout Wood County, the Ohio Statehouse, the Vern Riffe Center and the Rhodes State Office Tower Monday, and will remain until sunset on the day of his funeral, Oct. 5, 2024.

The Justice Department announced Friday that it has filed a lawsuit against the State of Alabama and the Alabama Secretary of State to challenge a systematic state program aimed at removing voters from its election rolls too close to the Nov. 5 general election, allegedly in violation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA).

The Democratic National Committee will send $2.5 million to more than 30 of its state and territorial parties in the closing weeks of the 2024 election cycle, the DNC said in a Friday statement.

The following is the Hillsboro Police Report for Sept. 26-28.

The Highland County Board of Elections would like to notify the public of their regular meeting, which will be held Monday, Oct. 7 at 8:30 a.m. in the board office.

Two Cincinnati city employees were wrongly denied their right to have a hearing before the Cincinnati Civil Service Commission regarding being placed on leave during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled recently.