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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gov. Mike DeWine signed an executive order Tuesday directing more than $13.4 million annually in federal welfare funds to dozens of faith-based and community organizations across Ohio. The executive order allocates Temporary Assistance for Needy Families money for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 through...

OHIO — A U.S. Marshals task force has arrested two suspects accused of robbing and fatally shooting a man outside a Cleveland restaurant in June. Members of the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force took Dominick Newby, 20, and Jayshawn Collins, 19, into custody in the 1100 block of East 58th Street in Cleveland....

CLEVELAND, Ohio – A solar farm planned for an abandoned landfill in the Slavic Village neighborhood has been axed because Cleveland and Cuyahoga County couldn’t connect on an issue — literally. The proposed solar array was part of a $129 million federal grant to build solar farms...

CANTON, Ohio (News Talk 1480 WHBC) – Drivers coming into Canton on Walnut Street NE after turning off of Market Avenue come across one of the most hazardous intersections in the county. 15th Street crosses where Walnut is still in a curve, and that’s a sight-distance issue for drivers...

Last fall, Ohio state Rep. Bill Roemer was on the campaign trail, going door to door in the Akron area, when his campaign manager notified him that an escaped convict had been spotted nearby. The location of the convict, who had escaped from Summit County Jail, was made known through Nixle, a service that provides...

CANTON, Ohio (WOIO) - A special prosecutor has now been approved to handle the case of the two Canton police officers charged in the April 2024 death of Frank Tyson while in police custody. Officers Beau Schoenegge and Camden Burch were indicted on the charge of reckless homicide. Their next...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A former supervisor of the Cuyahoga County sheriff’s Downtown Safety Patrol unit permanently injured an unarmed motorist during a routine traffic stop, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed Monday. The complaint, filed by Kevin Kinds in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, says then-Sgt. Timothy...

The Canorah lighting event, a project of Chabad of Akron and Anshe Sfard Revere Road Synagogue, will be lit at Summit Mall at 3265 W. Market Street in Fairlawn at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 16. Cans collected by Dec. 16 will be stacked into the shape of a menorah with candles...

Medina Police are still looking for the suspect or suspects involved in Friday’s vandalism at Reagan Park.

At the age of 23, Dave Szalay had just begun to tackle a lot of firsts. First house. First year of marriage. First advertising job. Then, for reasons that had little to do with his in-the-moment ambitions, he wrote a letter to one of the authors who inspired him as a child growing up in Akron.