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,

The officer who shot and killed a man in Middletown on Christmas Eve will not be charged with a crime after a grand jury ruled the shooting justified.

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.

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.

Vice President JD Vance’s journey to the White House took an unusual route, but now the Middletown native finds himself serving in the second-highest seat in