1+ hour, 4+ min ago  (396+ words) Middletown 5th grader Asya Dikmen, Creekview Elementary was judged to be the top chef in Middletown Schools annual cook off contest held recently at Middletown High School. MICHAEL D. CARK/CONTRIBUTED It was a tasty test of cooking skills Thursday evening for…...

14+ hour, 12+ min ago  (630+ words) West Chester Twp. fire Chief Rick Prinz, second from right, received an accreditation award for the township from the'Commission on Fire Accreditation. Pictured with Prinz, from left are: Randall Hanifen, assistant fire chief; Otto Huber, chairman of the CFAI Commission;…...

4+ hour, 44+ min ago  (1651+ words) Monroe baseball picked up a pair of victories in Bay Lake, Florida on Wednesday. The Hornets defeated Watertown (WI) 10-0 and Aquinas Institute (NY) 8-1 in doubleheader action. In game one Dawson Watts singled in a pair of runs in the fifth…...

3+ hour, 47+ min ago  (1408+ words) On a Friday evening in late February, Sooraj Cherukat stepped onstage at Webster Hall in New York City and seemed to chuckle in disbelief. "Somehow a couple of brown boys made it out here," he said, gesturing to the stage....

2+ hour, 14+ min ago  (385+ words) Ohio Department Agriculture Director Brian Baldridge visited the Talawanda High School chapter of the Future Farmers of America (FFA) last year as part of the Butler Tech student program's growing enrollment and honors for its career-training activities. (Provided) One of…...

5+ hour, 17+ min ago  (1854+ words) A firefighter extinguishes a car at the site of Israeli airstrikes, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. People stand near a damaged van beside scattered debris following an Israeli strike in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. A family who fled Israeli shelling…...

6+ hour, 40+ min ago  (1219+ words) President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. In a 19-minute address from the White House, President Trump described the U.S.-Israeli war as a major success that was "nearing completion…...

8+ hour, 10+ min ago  (130+ words) The Butler County Sheriff's Office responded in the late afternoon April 1, 2026 to a home in Liberty Twp. WCPO/CONTRIBUTED Two people were found dead of gunshot wounds Wednesday afternoon in Liberty Twp. The call came in just before 3 p.m.; a person…...

6+ hour, 19+ min ago  (9+ words) 2 dead in Liberty Twp. murder-suicide'journal-news.com...

8+ hour, 10+ min ago  (89+ words) 2 dead in Liberty Twp. incident, according to dispatch'Journal-News.com The Butler County Sheriff's Office responded in the late afternoon April 1, 2026 to a home in Liberty Twp. WCPO/CONTRIBUTED Two people are dead in Liberty Twp., according to Butler County Dispatch,…...