Butler County News

For some area school board members, getting an inside look at a school requires scheduling an appointment and first-time introductions with teachers.

Two local men remain in jail after being arraigned on burglary charges after allegedly stealing from a residence in the Lindenwald neighborhood Thursday afternoon.

The 17-year-old Lebanon boy accused of beating a fellow One Way Farm resident to death will be tried as an adult on felony murder charges.

Contech Construction Products has changed its name to Contech Engineered Solutions and its ownership structure, company officials announced today.

The former Middletown City Schools consultant who stole and sold $77,034 worth of computers from the district faces a possible 18-month prison term.

A project that will widen Butler-Warren Road from two lanes to five between Tylersville and Bethany roads is slated to begin Feb.

Rico said a "hefty dusting" of a half-inch to an inch of snow is possible by the time the storm system moves out Wednesday afternoon, though most places will see a dusting to a half-inch. Butler County reported a third of an inch of snow near Fairfield on Wednesday morning.

Estes Express Lines has opened a 36-door terminal at 6295 Executive Blvd. in Huber Heights, with 17 new employees and 12 transfers from other Estes locations.

While Ohio Gov. John Kasich was delivering his State of the State address in Steubenville, eight protesters stood outside Cincinnati City Hall to slam... Enquirer Media is excited to announce the release of Enquirer Varsity, a new High School Sports app for both the iPhone and Android.

There was a sharp drop in the number of new retail vendor licenses in Butler County in 2011, but county Auditor Roger Reynolds doesn't think it is cause for alarm.

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.

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.

Public schools facing shrinking budgets should consider sharing more services with other districts to cut costs, local education experts say.

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-West Chester Twp., will talk at ThyssenKrupp Bilstein of America Inc.

A 200-page state performance audit analyzed by the JournalNews/Middletown Journal shows the county spends $26,248 per 1,000 residents on debt compared to just $86 for peer counties.

One person is dead following a Friday night structure fire, according to the Butler County Sheriff's Office.

Voice of America, which sent its original broadcast overseas 70 years ago this month, will see backers of its first-built transmitting station begin fundraising this year to become a national museum.

It has been 6 1/2 months since former city of Cincinnati worker and labor chieftain Diana Frey was indicted by a federal grand jury.

Butler County Commissioner Chuck Furmon says an election website that displays endorsements from several politicians, including the county sheriff and U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, is from 2008 and will be taken down.