Highland County commissioners Terry Britton, David Daniels and Brad Roades heard from a local resident concerned about a proposed new battery storage facility on Mad River Road during their Wednesday, July 29 meeting.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, first lady Fran DeWine, and Lt. Governor Jim Tressel joined Ohio State Fair Executive Director Adam Heffron to officially open the 171st Ohio State Fair.

Sen. Paul pointed to documents released as part of the Senate's investigation into the pandemic where Fauci appeared to acknowledge COVID-19's origin from a leak at a lab in Wuhan, China. Paul also mentioned several virologists and top scientists in Fauci's circle who acknowledged the possibility of the virus leaking from a lab. 

President Donald Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in back-to-back meetings at the White House Tuesday.

The messages, obtained as part of his ongoing COVID-19 origins investigation, are now available in The Reading Room at paul.senate.gov/readingroom.

Auditor of State Keith Faber declared a fiscal emergency Tuesday for the Village of Zaleski in Vinton County after an analysis of the village’s finances confirmed fund deficits that exceeded what is allowed under state law.

Congressman Dave Taylor (OH-02) celebrated the passage of his Make American Guns Again (MAGA) Act in the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on July 22, 2026, by a vote of 216-212, mostly along party lines.

Southern State Community College is currently accepting applications for the 2026-27 Choose Ohio First (COF) Scholarship for eligible students entering the College's Computer Technology program.

Founder and director of energy worker advocacy group Power the Future Daniel Turner told The Center Square: “We've been powering this country with electricity for almost 150 years – through World War II, through the Great Depression, through the Dust Bowl – and we've never had electricity problems until the last 20 years. The American people need to ask why. The American people need to understand where their energy comes from, and why it has been either politicized or weaponized.”

A new report from WKRC TV 12 in Cincinnati reveals that former Highland County resident Tyler Wilkin was murdered in Puerto Rico.

Documents show CBP’s National Targeting Center flagged Daszak as “an extremely high person of interest” ahead of his Feb. 5, 2021, arrival at JFK, citing his more than 15 years of collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and his role as principal investigator on NIH grants funding bat coronavirus research in China. Internal CBP records state that “much of the funding DASZAK receives is put toward gain of function research.”

On July 27, deputies from the Brown County Sheriff’s Office arrested Dr. Ali Ghasemzadeh following an investigation into allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct involving patients during medical examinations.

Led by the DHS Cyber Crimes Center with significant assistance from HSI Los Angeles, Operation Signal Break mobilized specialized "SIM Box Surge Teams" of special agents, criminal analysts and computer forensics analysts to high-risk areas in California, Florida, Texas, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey.

Please join us Sunday, Aug. 2 for our annual picnic from 3:30-6 p.m. at the Hi-TEC Center, 1575 N. High Street, Hillsboro.

Hillsboro First Baptist Church is excited to report that their “Diaper Depot” Ministry has distributed over 77,000 disposable diapers to our community since the ministry began four years ago.