(COLUMBUS, Ohio)— Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Lt. Governor Jon Husted, and Ohio Office of Budget and Management (OBM) Director Kimberly Murnieks announced today that S&P Global Ratings upgraded the state’s issuer default and general obligation bond ratings to “AAA,” citing Ohio’s demonstrated commitment to active budget management, building and maintaining reserves, significant state-supported economic diversification efforts, and a belief that the state can maintain better credit characteristics than the U.S.… Read full story
Ohio First State in Nation to Activate NEVI Chargers
(COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced today that Ohio’s first electric vehicle (EV) charger funded through the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program is now online, making Ohio the first state in the nation to activate a NEVI charger.
The new NEVI charging station is located at the Pilot Travel Center along Interstate 70 at U.S.… Read full story
Mount Vernon Municipal Court Weekly Warrants for December 8, 2023
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Warrants were issued over the last three weeks by the Mount Vernon Municipal Court for the arrest of the following individuals. If you have any pertinent information about someone on the list, please contact law enforcement. Thank you. #WeeklyWarrants
Pictured:
Tate Swihart
Dan Haynes
Michael Butcher
William Kislingbury
Not Pictured:
Rebecca Cooper
Tara Keaton
Zachary Simmons
Endangered Missing Adult Alert for Carol Montrose
Update: This Missing Adult Alert has been cancelled.
CAROL MONTROSE
Sex: Female
Race: White
Age: 77
Height: 5’2”
Weight: 175
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Blue
On December 8, 2023, at 3:00 PM, Ms. Montrose drove away from her home and has not returned.… Read full story
Twenty-Seven Found Guilty in Mount Vernon Municipal Court – December 8, 2023
MOUNT VERNON – Judge John Thatcher found twenty-seven guilty after hearings were held in the Mount Vernon Municipal Court between December 4 – December 8, 2023.
December 4
• Nicholas Ross, 45, of Centerburg, was found guilty of menacing by stalking.… Read full story
Governor DeWine Appoints Clary to Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas
(COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Ohio Governor Mike DeWine today announced the appointment of Timothy W. Clary to the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas.
Clary will assume office on January 2, 2024, and will be taking the seat formerly held by Judge Michael Russo, who died.… Read full story
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BBB Scam Alert: Buying From a Televised Shopping Network? Watch Out for Impostors
‘Tis the season for shopping, and scammers are taking advantage by impersonating television shopping networks. BBB Scam Tracker is seeing an influx of scam reports about con artists impersonating networks like QVC and HSN to sell shoppers products that don’t exist.
In Latest Sign Of Momentum, Eight Bank Executives Endorse Brown’s Bipartisan Push To Fix The Supplemental Security Income Program
WASHINGTON, D.C. – December 6, 2023 – In the latest sign of strong momentum for U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown’s (D-OH) bipartisan legislation to fix the Social Security Income program, the executives of the eight leading banks in the United States endorsed the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act.… Read full story
Trees To Textbooks Invests More Than $2.1M in Local Schools, Communities
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Fourteen rural Ohio school districts, and their corresponding counties and townships, will share more than $2.1 million from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Forestry’s Trees to Textbooks program—which distributes revenue from the harvest of timber within Ohio’s state forests.… Read full story