The Middletown police officer who fatally shot an armed man will not face criminal charges, according to Butler County Prosecutor Michael Gmoser. A Butler County Grand Jury was given the facts of the case involving 50-year-old Christopher Gorak,

A Butler County grand jury has cleared a Middletown police officer of any wrong doing, saying a deadly Christmas Eve shooting was justified, according to the prosecutor's office.

A trial is scheduled to begin Monday in Butler County Common Pleas Court for one of two men charged in connection with the shooting death of Asiah Slone in Middletown last summer. But during a final hearing Tuesday,

Middletown police were called to a report of two men assaulting each other. Christopher Gorak was shot by police after answering the door with a gun.

Under a redistricting plan approved Monday evening by Middletown’s school board, eight schools will have new students transferred from other buildings at the start of the 2025-26 school year.

A Butler County grand jury has declined to issue any criminal charges against a Middletown police officer who fatally shot a man who opened an apartment door holding a gun on Christmas Eve at Olde Towne Apartment complex.

If they don't know it already, anyone driving through Middletown will know it's the home of Vice President JD Vance.

As Middletown, Ohio, native JD Vance gets settled in as the Vice President, his hometown is showing its support for him.

Construction is underway and will continue throughout 2025 on the rehabilitation of the decades-old Armco/AK Steel Research building in Middletown that when completed will be the combined home of several area ceramic refractory plants.

JD Vance, an Ohio native with strong ties to Columbus, will be sworn in as vice president Monday. Vance, the now-former senator from Ohio who was tapped as presidential candidate Donald Trump's running mate this summer, grew up in Middletown, Ohio, as he details in his 2016 book "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis ."

The community then rallied together to support the band, raising $140,000 to fund the trip to Washington, D.C.

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — It was a month after her son’s election as vice president of the United States and JD Vance ‘s mother wondered why the city of his birth had yet to recognize him.