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.

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.

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.

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.

A Middletown High School North teacher and girls’ basketball coach has been charged with having a sexual relationship with a student at his school, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago said Wednesday.

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.

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.

In Middletown, Ohio, many residents of JD Vance's hometown are bursting with pride at their native son’s accomplishments.