The U.S. Department of Education is investigating several colleges and universities over reports of antisemitic activity. The federal agency said allowing that kind of behavior could risk the educational institution’s federal funding.

Fayette County is mourning the loss of two longtime Fayette County firefighters following a tragic accident Saturday morning outside the Concord-Green Township Fire Department in the Village of Staunton.

President Joe Biden is using wartime emergency powers under a law created in response to the Korean War and primarily cited as to fight terrorism to spend more money on electric heat pump manufacturing due to climate change.

The Ohio House Government Oversight Committee recently advanced the Second Amendment Preservation Act, which would stop Ohio law enforcement agencies from enforcing what the act calls unconstitutional federal gun control laws, executive orders or agency rule interpretations.

“Cedar Park Church celebrates and protects life from conception to natural death; it’s unconscionable for the state to force any church to pay for abortions,” John Bursch, Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy at Alliance Defending Freedom, the legal group helping represent the church, said in a statement.

Five have been charged and four have been convicted in a massive bribery and money-laundering scandal, but there were more signs this week that the federal criminal investigation is continuing.

“Americans are currently being held hostage – and global conflict surrounds us – yet the Pentagon has the gall to ask for $114 million for DEI,” said Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo. 

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and nine partner agencies this week announced The Mount Vernon Project: School of Public Service, a series of online trainings designed to give candidates for public office and newly elected officials at all levels of Ohio government an orientation to public service.

Bill Johnson, who represents 11 Eastern Ohio counties in the sixth congressional district, was named the next president during Tuesday’s special meeting of the Youngstown State Board of Trustees. The vote was 8-1.

A senior at Shawnee State University, Erika Martin has had the opportunity to jump-start her own business venture with the help of the Kricker Innovation Hub (KIH) Entrepreneur Fellows program. 

Recent rulings across the country against different states’ gun owner permit laws are fueling hope among Illinois’ gun rights community that the days are numbered for the state’s Firearm Owner’s ID card. The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals this week ruled that Maryland’s permit to buy and own a handgun is unconstitutional.

The impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is gaining momentum as more evidence comes out to back allegations that the president himself financially benefited from the overseas business dealings of his son, Hunter.

The 2nd Congressional District of Utah will stay Republican. Celeste Maloy defeated Democrat Kathleen Riebe in a special election to replace U.S. Representative Chris Stewart, R-Utah, in the district on Tuesday, November 21. 

Lynchburg-Clay FFA recently traveled to the National FFA Convention, held in Indianapolis, Ind., with Mowrystown FFA.

Highland County commissioners Terry Britton, David Daniels and Brad Roades made several approvals during a brief meeting Wednesday, Nov. 22, with a light agenda on the day before Thanksgiving.