Seven graduates, including one honored posthumously, were recognized Sunday, May 4 as the seventh graduating group of the New Way to Recovery Drug Court Docket of the Highland County Common Pleas Court.

Four individuals, including three co-defendants, were arrested on drug trafficking and possession charges this week as a result of Highland County Task Force investigations. Two of the four individuals were also charged with engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity.

California Democrats reversed course, partially restoring a bill making soliciting children for prostitution a felony after national outrage over their initial gutting that even stripped its author, a Democrat, from the bill.

Congressman Dave Taylor (OH-02) today introduced the Protecting American Farmland Act, which would prohibit federal funds from being allocated toward solar projects on prime farmland.

"Peace be with all of you," were the first words of Pope Leo XIV. A Villanova University alumnus, Pope Leo XIV is the first Pope from the United States and the first Augustinian friar to be elected pontiff.

Seeking to reorder global trade with America at the center, President Donald Trump announced the framework of a trade deal with the United Kingdom on Thursday.

Contrary to killing the seven-member commission charged with enforcing the state’s campaign finance laws, LaRose wants to toughen it up by giving it more power to levy and collect fines.

President Donald Trump plans to announce his first trade deal with a foreign nation on Thursday after upending the global trade order by imposing tariffs last month.

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) has announced that the governors of Illinois, Minnesota and New York will testify on June 12 at a hearing on their states’ sanctuary policies that shield criminal illegal aliens from immigration enforcement.

Life beyond high school is just a few steps away for the class of 2025, and McClain’s graduating class is soon to engage in the activities to honor this milestone. 

A pair of Ohio House lawmakers want to help people pay off their medical debt. State Reps. Michele Grim, D-Toledo, and Jean Schmidt, R-Loveland, are introducing the Ohio Medical Debt Fairness Act. 

Republicans are using the budget reconciliation process to push through sweeping energy reforms despite Democratic opposition, including boosting oil and gas drilling on federal lands.

The Congressional Budget Office's most recent projections, from March, show that U.S. debt held by the public is on track to reach its highest level ever in 2029 before reaching 156% of gross domestic product in 2055. 

These incidents have been reported by the HCSO.

With voter turnout of just over eight percent in Highland County, the May 6 primary election saw an unofficial sweep of all five proposed levies and issues, including the Highland County Health Department levy and State Issue 2.