Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose issued a statewide directive today instructing county boards of elections to remove thousands of inactive voter registrations belonging to deceased Ohioans.

President Donald Trump maintained in conversations with reporters Wednesday that Tuesday’s deadly strike on a small Venezuelan boat carrying 11 alleged drug traffickers was warranted and should serve as a warning to anyone trying to smuggle drugs into the country.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and committee members Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) are demanding answers from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg following new disclosures outlining the company’s efforts to target teenagers based on their emotional state and Meta’s reported failure to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.

These incidents have been reported by HCSO. 

Ten counties in the U.S. – in Texas and New Mexico – account for 93% of domestic oil production in the last four years as analyzed by the U.S. Energy Information Agency.

State Representative Bob Peterson (R-Sabina) is pleased to share that the month of September officially marks the beginning of Ohio’s fall hunting season.

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.