Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) has joined Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Mark Warner’s (D-Va.) Recovery of Stolen Checks Act. This bipartisan bill would require the Department of Treasury to offer taxpayers who have had their Internal Revenue Service (IRS) paper refund checks stolen to receive their replacement refund checks through electronic deposit. 

Merchants National Bank is excited to announce the addition of Nick Brown to its Commercial and Agricultural Lending team. 

This week, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released 33,295 pages of Epstein-related records that were provided by the U.S. Department of Justice. 

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration will ask the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to quickly take up his appeal on tariff authority after two lower courts rejected his claims of broad authority to issue import duties under a 1977 law. 

Hillsboro Elks Lodge 361 recently wrote a $1,000 grant for the Highland County Sheriff's Office to purchase 14 tourniquets for the road officers to carry with them to treat accident victims who are bleeding before emergency medical personnel arrive. 

Adena Heart and Vascular Institute interventional cardiologist Hafeez Hassan, MD has been named to the prestigious “30 in Their 30s” list by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI).

Clinton Memorial Hospital in Wilmington has been acquired by TriHealth, the health care company announced in June. This week, the hospital has been re-named as part of the acquisition. Under Tri-Health, the facility will become TriHealth Clinton Regional Hospital.

Camp Sherman, which was located near Chillicothe, opened in September 1917 and was one of 16 U.S. Army training centers at the time.

The 50th anniversary observance of the Peace Resource Center continues on Sept. 9 with Wilmington College Theatre’s staged reading of the play, "Atomic Bill and the Payment Due," at 7:30 p.m. in Hugh G. Heiland Theatre. Admission is free and reservations are not needed.

Ohio energy companies could take control of customers’ thermostats and water heaters. House Bill 427, recently introduced in the Ohio General Assembly, proposes creating a voluntary demand response program to give utility companies the ability to temporarily adjust energy usage when demand is high.

Taxpayers are covering rents of up to $6,020 per month in Arizona, leading taxpayer advocates to question the growing duration of federal Section 8 housing choice voucher (HCV) usage.

In light of an opinion issued last week by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, the American Civil Liberties Union said that eight Ohio counties don’t have legal contracts with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement. That being the case, the ACLU of Ohio said, those detainees must be released.