Ohio Republican Sen. J.D. Vance Thursday agreed to an Oct. 1 vice presidential debate against Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz on CBS News.

As a 10th-generation Appalachian, Ivy Brashear sees J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” as a “really one-sided and simple view of the region.”

Monday morning in Middletown thousands of people lined up outside the high school to hear newly-minted Republican Vice-Presidential nominee J.D. Vance speak. Long lines of cars snarled the intersections and quickly filled lots at the school and overflow spaces at a Miami University satellite campus across the street.

In the 24 hours after J.D. Vance became Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s running mate, Stephen Bowling, city council member and director of the Breathitt County Public Library, fielded more than a dozen calls from news media outlets large and small.

Newly named GOP vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance made his mother’s struggles with opioid addiction a part of his public story, and he started a nonprofit to fight the scourge in 2017.

Republicans on the floor of the Republican National Convention cheered Ohio U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance becoming their vice presidential nominee Monday, as Democrats slammed his opposition to abortion rights and called him inexperienced and a “clone” of Donald Trump.

A little more than three years ago, J.D. Vance was just an author and conservative commentator. Now he might be next in line for the White House. It’s a dizzying political ascent for the 39-year-old man from Middletown, Ohio.

In two weeks, the Republican National Convention meets in Milwaukee, and it may shake up the political landscape here in Ohio. Although there’s no doubt about the top of the ticket, former President Donald Trump has indicated he plans to select a Vice President before or during the nominating convention. U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, is on Trump’s shortlist, and if he gets the nod and they win election, it could kick off a game of musical chairs among the state’s leading Republicans.

U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, has introduced a bipartisan measure placing new limits on large corporate mergers.

It’s been just over three months since a Norfolk Southern train derailed near East Palestine, Ohio. Federal legislation meant to improve rail safety and reduce similar incidents is advancing in the U.S. Senate.