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Journal-News Courts and Crime reporter
513-543-9227
Lauren Pack is the courts and crime reporter for the Journal-News and has been a journalist for four decades after graduating from Ohio University. Lauren covers crime and public safety throughout Butler and Warren counties and worked in Preble County and Louisville, Ky. prior to join the Journal-News/Middletown Journal staff in 1994. Have a news tip or story idea? I can be reached at lauren.pack@coxinc.com or 513-543-9227. Follow me on Twitter @LPackJN
Latest from Lauren Pack
As bitter cold and snow approaches this weekend, the Middletown Health Department and the SHALOM organization assisting...
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A Olde Towne apartment resident told Middletown dispatchers on Christmas Eve people were fighting at a neighboring...
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Ashley Combs has taken the reigns as Middletown’s acting city manager while council continues to wrestle with how to...
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A report Tuesday night by an Olde Towne Apartments complex resident about a fight in a nearby residence led to the...
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A 50-year-old man has been identified as the person shot and killed by a Middletown police officer on Christmas Eve...
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Middletown residents have given hundreds of ideas on how the city should re-develop the largely empty Towne Mall.
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The Butler County Coroner’s Office is seeking assistance from the public in locating the family of a man found dead in...
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A Middletown woman accused of killing her 72-year-old mother in October was arraigned in Butler County Common Pleas...
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The attorney for a suspect in last spring’s murder of a Hamilton man says police violated his rights, and his alleged...
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A spirited city council discussion about recognition of Middletown native and Vice President-elect JD Vance ended with...
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