A second aircraft carrier is en route to the Middle East as tensions build with Iran, according to multiple reports. The USS Gerald Ford, the newest and largest carrier in the fleet, is headed back to the Middle East after assisting with operations in the Caribbean, including Operation Absolute Resolve, which led to the capture of deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Mauro.

The Highland County North Joint Fire and Ambulance District Board of Trustees' meeting will be held at 200 South St., Leesburg, on Tuesday, Feb. 17 at 6 p.m.  

Last month, the parents of a 7-year-old girl whose nose wouldn’t stop bleeding took her to Portland Adventist Health in Portland, Oregon, for urgent care. Before the family could get through the doors, federal immigration agents reportedly detained them in the parking lot and took them to a detention center in Texas.

When determining the time to refile a dismissed lawsuit under the Ohio saving statute, the deadline falls on the one-year anniversary date of the dismissal, not the following day, the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled recently.

It’s been four months since the Ohio Supreme Court ordered the state to pay nursing homes up to $1 billion, but no payments have been made.

On Jan. 22, the Ohio Rail Development Commission (Rail Commission) approved two projects for grant funding at its bi-monthly meeting. These projects will result in nearly $400,000 in rail infrastructure investment serving companies in the State of Ohio.

Out of Ohio’s 88 counties, 75 are mental health shortage areas, according to a recent study from the Health Policy Institute of Ohio.

These incidents have been reported by the HPD.

The Ohio Department of Commerce Division of State Fire Marshal has issued a Consumer Alert regarding the danger of smoking or using any kind of open flame while utilizing home oxygen therapy.

Hundreds of Ohioans at a church in Springfield last Monday morning called for an extension of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians that had been set to expire Tuesday.

The Highland County Board of Elections would like to notify the public of their regular meeting to certify candidate petitions and questions and issues for the upcoming May 5, 2026 Primary Election.

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and the only Black U.S. senator, quickly condemned a racist social media post on President Trump's online account.

New job reports are out, and two think tanks are calling the Ohio employment picture “sluggish” and “flat.”

The Supreme Court of Ohio recently affirmed a trial court’s rejection of a new trial request submitted in 2019 by a man sentenced to death for two murders committed while robbing a Cleveland used-car dealership.

A Loveland man was sentenced in U.S. District Court recently to 262 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for sexually exploiting an 11-year-old.