Butler County

Middletown city council approved joining Butler County commissioners, the finance authority and the community foundation to earmark $15 million for renewing the city's downtown.

Residents and state lawmakers have raised questions about the jail's conditions, its capacity and the ethics of a federal contract to hold ICE detainees there.

The Veteran Response Team is the first of its kind in Kentucky.

Carter pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in 2024. He filed for early release last October.

The move will affect people living in and around Oxford, as well as Miami University students.

Officials say the design phase is nearing completion and they plan to break ground this year.

"Cincinnati Story" is a fan favorite at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park in Hamilton. The piece was commissioned in 1982 to adorn the plaza outside downtown Cincinnati's (now former) Chiquita building on East Fifth Street.

The agency declared a fiscal emergency in September after projecting a $13.3 million spending deficit for 2026.

The township is purchasing the large plot of land with frontage along I-75, bordered by Union Centre Boulevard and Cincinnati-Dayton Road. Township trustees envision the planned Mill Creek District as a destination that feels "uniquely West Chester."

The children's department has been blocked off since a small electrical fire Sept. 22.