The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife is proud to announce Ohio Wildlife Officers Isaiah Gifford and Matt Roberts each received the national Pope and Young Club’s Wildlife Law Enforcement Officer Award for their work on a white-tailed deer poaching investigation. Gifford and Roberts were the first officers from Ohio to receive this award, and the first co-recipients.
A Bloomingburg man was sentenced to community control recently after pleading guilty to having weapons under disability in Highland County Common Pleas Court.
A Hillsboro man indicted on three counts of rape and a Greenfield man charged with three counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor were among the nine individuals indicted by a Highland County grand jury in their April 1 session.
A Bainbridge man facing charges in three separate cases dating back to 2020 was sentenced recently to three and a half years in prison and ordered to pay over $7,000 in restitution.
The 19th annual Chili Supper held by the Hillsboro Rotary Club as part of the 53rd Annual Ernie Blankenship Radio-Telethon for the benefit of the Highland County Society for Children and Adults was a record-breaking event.
A Highland County grand jury handed down 13 indictments, including four indictments as the result of Highland County Task Force investigations, during their Tuesday, March 4 session.
