Ohio
Ohio primary election 2024 voter guide: Greater Cincinnati races
Ohio’s primary election is March 19. Early voting began Feb. 21.
At the top of the ballot are party primaries for president – though the nominees are all but set – and for U.S. Senate on the Republican side.
But residents of Greater Cincinnati have plenty of local races to vote on. Here are the area’s top contested primaries:
U.S. House
8th Congressional District (includes part of Hamilton County, all of Butler County)
2nd Congressional District (includes Clermont County)
Ohio General Assembly
4th Senate District (Butler County): Ohio Sen. George Lang will face former Ohio Rep. Candice Keller and Middletown resident Mark Morgan in the Republican primary in March.
47th House District (Butler County): Hamilton pastor Diane Mullins is challenging incumbent Republican Rep. Sara Carruthers for the seat.
55th House District (Warren County): Two Republican candidates Michelle Teska and Ben McCullough are vying to replace Rep. Scott Lipps in the Ohio House of Representatives.
56th House District (Warren County): Two familiar Warren County Republicans, Kathy Grossmann and Adam Mathews, and newcomer Heather Salyer will face each other in the March primary for a Statehouse seat.
Court of Appeals
12th District Court of Appeals (Butler, Warren, Clermont and other counties): Two Republican women, judge Barbara Carter and lawyer Melena Siebert, are running for a six-year term on the court.
How can I view my Ohio ballot before Election Day?
The Ohio secretary of state’s office has sample ballots for every precinct in the state available online. To find it, click here and choose your county. From there, enter your name, find yourself in the search results and click “sample ballots.”
A Kentucky woman who had been missing for more than two weeks was found dead in her vehicle in Ohio, authorities said.
The body of Debra Wireman was found in her vehicle on July 3 in Clermont County, Ohio, the Flemingsburg Police Department in Kentucky said on Facebook on Wednesday. Investigators were called to the scene after a report identifying the vehicle as belonging to a missing person, police said. The remains were identified as Wireman’s by the Clermont County Coroner’s Office on July 7, according to law enforcement.
Police in Kentucky said the Clermont County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio is investigating the woman’s death. No additional information will be released by Flemingsburg police “out of respect for Debra’s family and the integrity of that investigation.”
“While this is not the outcome any of us hoped and prayed for, we are thankful that Debra has been found and that her family can now begin to receive the closure they deserve,” police added on Facebook.
Wireman, according to police, was last seen on June 17 at around 4:30 p.m. in Aberdeen, Ohio, while traveling toward Maysville, Kentucky. She was driving a white 2020 Kia Forte with front-end damage. Police said family and friends were “concerned for her welfare.”
“The overwhelming response from our community, neighboring agencies, the media, and countless individuals across the region demonstrated the very best of people coming together in the hope of bringing someone home safely,” Flemingsburg police said.
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Sixteen ‘almost feral’ children. Aged 18 months to 18 years. Hidden from sight in an Ohio house of horrors.
Until now.
It’s a situation difficult to fathom: Investigators found 16 kids living inside a 1,300-square-foot home in Vinton County, Ohio, confined in a 12-by-12 bedroom investigators say was covered in human waste. Gary Siders Jr., Elizabeth Siders, Gary Siders Sr., and Christina Siders were arrested on Tuesday, June 30th, and remain in jail after waiving their preliminary hearings today, Tuesday, July 7th.
Investigative reporter Anne Emerson goes beyond the headlines to understand the human impact in the developing Siders child abuse case. How did children live under these conditions for so long? We wanted to hear from the local community affected by this horrific story.
In this episode of Criminally Obsessed, we hear from those voices – from Captain Jeremiah Griffith who was a first responder to the shocking scene, to local Vinton County Pastor James Dimel who describes the community’s support of children who were trapped in a ‘den of evil’. Law enforcement and locals share their shock at the horror lurking in their own community. And Attorney Thomas Stolly, who represents Elizabeth Siders, says the case is more complicated than many believe, urging the public to remember that his client is presumed innocent.
Today, we react in real time to what we know so far in this developing story, and offer multiple perspectives of those closest to this case.
Subscribe to Criminally Obsessed for continuing coverage of the Siders investigation, true crime updates, courtroom developments, and exclusive interviews with the real people impacted by these cases.
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