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MEDINA — Main Street Medina’s fourth annual Fall Festival will bring wagon rides, a chili cook-off and other fall activities to Medina Square and Broadway Street on Saturday. The festival will run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and include the farmers market, a fall craft show, vendors...

CANTON, Ohio (WOIO)— A Lisbon woman is facing a felony charge after police say her 4-year-old son was found alone in an apartment in “deplorable conditions,” near a glass pipe commonly used to smoke illegal narcotics. Lillian Antoinette Simms, 25, was arraigned Thursday in Canton Municipal Court...

CANAL FULTON, Ohio (WOIO)— A Canal Fulton man is accused of stealing more than $24,000 from an elderly woman and using the money at a casino, according to a criminal complaint filed in Massillon Municipal Court. Michael Bailey, 62, was the victim’s power of attorney, court records show. Investigators...

More than a dozen Ohio Domino’s locations abruptly closed their doors recently, according to a press release from Nation’s Restaurants News. Mile High Pizza Company, which is owned by long-time Domino’s franchisee Anthony Satterwhite, closed the doors of 13 Domino’s locations in Northern and Central Ohio.

GREEN — Queen of Heaven parishioner Caleb Brooks, 15, and a work party group of about 20 Queen of Heaven Troop 334 Scouts have constructed a shrine to St. Florian to honor first responders. The shrine was approved by the Rev. David Durkee as Caleb’s work project to becoming an Eagle Scout, and construction took place i

For the first time in its history, the Akron Zoo has welcomed the birth of a white-faced saki monkey. The infant was born on Friday, Sept. 18 to the zoo’s adult female saki, Clementine. This is the third infant for Clementine and the zoo’s male saki, Toumi, but first...

LUCAS COUNTY, Ohio (WTVG) - A former Sylvania Township firefighter who took a court deal after admitting to stealing drugs on a call in 2024 is under investigation again. Ryan Sedlock is now the interim fire chief and a paramedic in Richfield Township. A new Lucas County Sheriff’s complaint accuses...

CANTON, Ohio (WOIO) -Investigators say they are closer than ever to solving the 2011 murder of Dale Settle Jr., a college student who was shot and killed while attending bible study. On Sept. 22, 2011, 22-year-old Dale Settle Jr. went to bible study. He was outside on Hazlett Avenue Northwest...

AKRON — Stewart’s Caring Place announced the success of its 23rd Annual Butterfly Gala, held Aug. 29 at a private residence in Hinckley. More than 450 guests attended the event, generating substantial philanthropic support for the organization’s free cancer support programs and services. The Butterfly Gala is...

A new documentary explores the creation of Akron’s Longest Table, and, as organizer Kate Tucker said, shows “a community coming together when everything is falling apart.”. “Everybody Eats: Akron’s Longest Table” will premiere on YouTube on Thursday at 8 p.m. The nine-minute documentary was produced by OTHRWRLD, a...