Sections of state highways, county roads and township roads were closed in and around Highland County Thursday, June 18 after overnight and early morning rainfall totals of up to 5 inches in some locations.

Over the last four decades, Hamas has claimed responsibility for numerous large-scale terror attacks resulting in Americans’ deaths. Its stated mission is to create an Islamic Palestinian state by eliminating the state of Israel through violent holy war, or jihad. 

President Donald Trump significantly bolstered funding for immigration enforcement last Wednesday when he signed into law a nearly $70 billion package that will keep key federal agencies operating without any new restrictions.

Daviess County Judge-Executive Charlie Castlen said he hadn’t heard of the term “hyperscale” before. That is until news broke that an enormous, hyperscale data center was being planned at the site of an idled aluminum mill in Hancock County next door.

As a House committee debated President Donald Trump’s signature domestic policy bill last year, Republican backers repeatedly emphasized that its changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, wouldn’t affect vulnerable people.

A federal judge in Rhode Island this month struck down several Trump administration policies that halted processing for asylum seekers following a shooting in Washington, D.C., that left one West Virginia National Guard member dead and another seriously injured.

The following ODOT construction projects are anticipated to impact traffic in Highland County.

Americans’ views on crime often don’t match reality — and a new report suggests those perceptions are shaped as much by personal experiences and economic conditions as by crime itself.

A Midland man was sentenced recently to community control, plus 30 days in jail, after pleading guilty to a drug possession charge in Highland County.

A federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia issued a preliminary injunction Friday halting the Trump administration’s nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund for one week, giving the government time to sign a “clear, unambiguous” agreement that the fund is dead.

Pike County will receive $250,000 to replace a failing elevator and restore accessibility at the Garnet A. Wilson Public Library in the village of Waverly. 

The New York City Democratic Socialists of America, instrumental in helping Mamdani get elected, blasted the move to grow the city’s police headcount in a rare public rebuke of the mayor's lefty policies. The group said Mamdani had pledged to downsize to focus on expanding community policing initiatives.

One of two bills targeting potential fraud in Ohio’s childcare system saw changes in an Ohio House committee, including to notification requirements going all the way up to legislative leadership.

Scioto County Sheriff David Thoroughman reports that deputies have arrested a Portsmouth woman following a stabbing incident that occurred in Lucasville on Thursday, June 4.

The U.S. Supreme Court this month upheld two lower court rulings that found Alabama’s nitrogen gas execution protocol unconstitutional, ending for now a short but intense legal battle over Alabama’s execution methods; what constituted an acceptable level of suffering in an execution and the state’s obligations to offer alternative methods that could be less painful.