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.

A Virginia man was sentenced to prison recently after he previously pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) recently celebrated the completion of the Todd Fork Bridge renovation at Little Miami State Park with a ribbon cutting event.

Using health data from almost 213,000 Americans who experienced reinfections, researchers have found that severe infections from the virus that causes COVID-19 tend to foreshadow similar severity of infection the next time a person contracts the disease. Additionally, scientists discovered that long COVID was more likely to occur after a first infection compared to a reinfection.

Managers of a Lucas County investment firm accused of deceiving and defrauding investors in a decade-long scheme have been reindicted on multiple felonies as part of multi-year investigation and prosecution, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced recently.

Marshall Township Trustees will meet in an emergency session Sept. 29 at 9 a.m. at the Township Hall, located at 11085 OH 506 in Hillsboro, to review the transfer of property located at 11470 Spruance Road.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced Friday that he has authorized the use of the State Disaster Relief Program (SDRP) to support 11 counties that were significantly impacted by severe weather events this year.

Tom Buis, CEO of the American Carbon Alliance, Friday issued the following statement in support of the official launch of the bipartisan Senate Sustainable Aviation Fuel Caucus.