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The Middletown Chick-fil-A, located just off Exit 32 on I-75, is expected to open next month and employee about 100 workers. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

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Middletown Chick-fil-A expects to open next month

A large magnet is used to help sort material at Cohen Recycling in Middletown Thursday, Aug. 18, 2013. NICK DAGGY / STAFF

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Cohen Recycling to be recognized for supporting Ronald McDonald House

Hamilton and Badin play each other on Friday night, Aug. 22, 2025, in the season opener for Ohio high school football. However, the intercity athletic rivals teamed up on Saturday morning, Aug. 16, 2025, to help clean up part of their hometown, including the Booker T. Washington Center and Bailey Square. MICHAEL D. PITMAN/STAFF

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Hamilton, Badin football team up for city pride in cleanup effort

An OVI checkpoint was held on Ohio 4 in Fairfield on Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. Ohio State Highway Patrol announced five drivers were arrested for OVI and two others were arrested for OVI from saturation patrols. NICK GRAHAM/FILE

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7 arrested for OVI following Friday night’s checkpoint in Fairfield

The former Shuler and Benninghofen Woolen Mill is expected to be redeveloped into a mixed-use project featuring 125 apartments and 7,000 square feet of retail space. The project is expected to begin this fall, but the developers are hoping Hamilton City Council will approve a tax incentive as the developer, Bloomfield/Schon, secures financing for the project. MICHAEL D. PITMAN/FILE

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Hamilton considers tax incentive for Shuler-Benninghofen redevelopment

A sign board outside the Franklin CVS at 150 S. Main St. reads "Our store is closing, but we're still nearby." NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

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Franklin CVS store closing next month

No demolition start date has been announced for Forest Fair Mall. But its redevelopment is further along, thanks to last month’s announcement that the Hillman Group, one of the nation’s largest hardware distributors, has signed a lease for a massive new distribution center on the Forest Fair site. FILE

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Which one will come down first? Former Tri-County Mall and Forest Fair Mall on list for...

Cincinnati-Dayton Fire Protection - a part of Ryan Fireprotection - will consolidate its two Sycamore Twp. sites into a single building being constructed on Union Centre Boulevard in Fairfield. SUE KIESEWETTER/CONTRIBUTED

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Construction underway on new building in Fairfield for fire protection company

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Middletown woman pleads guilty in OVI crash into house that injures 83-year-old resident

The Butler County Sheriff's Office captured two of the department's most wanted sex offenders on Monday and Thursday of this week. STAFF FILE PHOTO

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2 Butler County sex offenders arrested for not verifying their residence

The Forklift and Palate restaurant inside Spooky Nook Sports Champion Mill has opened in a temporary space while work on the main restaurant space begins later this month. Spooky Nook hired former Tano Bistro executive chef Matthew Rowland. Pictured are Korean barbecue-style chicken fingers. MICHAEL D. PITMAN/STAFF

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PHOTOS: Forklift and Palate opens at Spooky Nook

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Jungle Jim’s adds TikTok station, cotton candy making machine as iconic store turns 50

Hundreds of classic and custom cars filled Main Street in downtown Franklin for the Warren County Kustoms car show Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

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PHOTOS: Warren County Kustoms car show in Franklin

Harry Bell, left, and Jack Davis, both 97 years old and longtime Butler County educators, have remained friends for 70 years and golf together twice a week. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

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McCrabb: Longtime educators, now 97, remain friends 70 years later

President Donald Trump, center right, and first lady Melania Trump walk, center left, walk with Jason Hing, chief deputy of emergency services at the Los Angles Fire Department, left, and Capt. Jeff Brown, Chief of Station 69, as they tour the Pacific Palisades neighborhood affected by recent wildfires in Los Angeles, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

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Town halls, Medicaid, marijuana: How federal actions impact southwest Ohio this week

Jasmine Paolini returns the ball against Barbara Krejcikova Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025 at the Cincinnati Open at Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason. Paolini won 6-1, 6-2. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

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PHOTOS: Scenes from The Cincinnati Open tennis tournament in Mason