The 58th annual Fall Festival of Leaves returned Oct. 16-19 in downtown Bainbridge, with a full slate of entertainment, crafts and contests planned as well as the opportunity to view beautiful fall foliage in “Leaf Country USA.”
Hillsboro City Council continued discussions of a now-revised ordinance to adjust compensation for non-union city employees during their Thursday, Oct. 16 meeting.
President Donald Trump hosted President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Friday afternoon, in hopes of inching Ukraine and Russia closer to peace.
After six months’ worth of meetings at Southern State Community College, Highland County commissioners Brad Roades, Terry Britton and David Daniels debuted their new meeting room at the Highland County Administration Building Wednesday, Oct. 15.
At the October meeting of the Lynchburg-Clay Local School District Board of Education, board members honored longtime Lynchburg-Clay educators Tom and Joe Wills for their accomplishments here in the district.
Sen. John Thune said, “If anything was needed to demonstrate just how fundamentally uninterested Democrats are in supporting our troops and defending our country, just take a look at this vote.” Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa.; Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., were the only Democrats to vote for the bill.
Hillsboro Mayor Justin Harsha introduced the city’s new law director at Hillsboro City Council’s Thursday, Oct. 16 meeting, while tempers flared as Auditor Dawson Barreras repeatedly called two council members “shameful” following a failed attempt at suspending the three-reading rule for an ordinance regarding the safety and service director’s residency.
"Numerous Republican offices have confirmed that they were targeted by an unidentified group or individual who distributed American flags bearing a similar symbol, which were initially indistinguishable from an ordinary American flag to the naked eye."
America First Legal is leading the charge for the United States to return to the "original meaning" of the 14th Amendment, meaning that children born to illegal aliens in the country are not American citizens.
In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court held that the Medina County Common Pleas Court clerk improperly charged a man an additional $1 per page to make a complete record of his divorce case that was billed as a “Clerk Computer Operation” fee.
Since Trump took office in January, the FBI has reported an 86% increase in arrests, with 28,649 arrests in 2024, compared to 15,388 in 2023, 15,771 in 2022, and 16,864 in 2021.
Athens County Common Pleas Judge Patrick Lang sentenced Robert Collins, 63, of Glouster to a minimum of 110 years to a maximum of 175.5 years during a hearing Sept. 30.
