Middletown News

A homeless veteran and his family - who have been living in a church-sponsored shelter program for two months - appear to be closer to permanent housing and possibly employment.

Tony Calhoun works on a corrugated cardboard machine Thursday at Akers Packaging in Middletown.

A scene of an accident is shown as a pickup truck driver lost control on an icy road and hit a school bus head-on on Wednesday, Feb.

The financial outlook city officials have for Middletown is optimistic despite mixed results from two of the city's largest revenue streams.

Circulation at local libraries has leveled off for the first time in the past 10 years, but digital downloads continue to increase, library officials said.

The theft of a laptop, monitor, television and two XBox consoles occurred sometime before 7:55 a.m. from a home in the 1100 block of Young Street.

The January jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor was good news for the 243,000 people who found jobs.

Gov. John Kasich loves Cleveland's ambitious plan to overhaul the city's failing public schools by resetting collective bargaining agreements, championing high-performing charter schools, expanding preschool to all 4-year-olds, and increasing the hours students spend in classes.

Eleven people are injured after a head-on crash between a truck and a Middletown City Schools bus carrying 45 students.

The crash happened just before 8 a.m. in the 6100 block of Manchester Road just east of Middletown.

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio - Authorities say multiple ambulances have taken injured people, including children, from the scene of a head-on collision between a school bus and a pickup truck in southwest Ohio.

Ohio will invest more than $10 million to boost its current broadband network speed tenfold to boost research and job growth statewide, Gov.

The city is trying to entice a steel tubing manufacturer to open a facility in Middletown that could lead to 200 new jobs.

When Lauren Hawkins wakes up every morning, her father, Wayne, sets out nine pills that Lauren has to take before heading to school.

Butler County voters hoping to once again make Ohio blue in the presidential election have a new place to congregate with the opening of Ohio's fifth field office for Obama for America.

Tools valued at $1,500 were stolen overnight Thursday from a pickup truck parked at a business in the 300 block of Charles Street.

Middletown Police began investigating a group of individuals in September who were believed to be responsible for hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage to properties in the area.

Sewer rates in Butler and Warren counties vary by as much as 45 percent depending on the municipality the user lives in, a survey of area rates shows.

Tiffany has always been the breadwinner for her children although their father, who doesn't live with them, helps out with child care and other occasional needs.

"He made people feel good about themselves by letting them know that they matter," said Sandra Campbell, his wife of 51 years.