Akron OH

Police in Northfield Village and Sagamore Hills handled a mix of calls from Sept. 24 to Sept. 28. The reports include an impaired driving stop, a roadway call on State Route 82 and a medical response that ended in a death. Others cover a dog bite, a lifetime ban violation at Northfield Park and a roofing noise complain

PORTAGE COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO)— This week marks nearly 40 years since a farmer found a man dead in a Portage County field. Detectives have since identified him but still do not know who killed him. A farmer clearing a field off Cable Line Road in Paris Township found human...

Sept. 14 Richfield Joint Recreation District meeting. John Piepsny, director of the Richfield Heritage Preserve for the RJRD, reported that the Upper Lake had a leak and was losing about 62,000 gallons of water a day. The level had dropped about 10 feet over a weekend. Piepsny said he contacted...

An Iowa substitute teacher who offered students extra credit for donating to her personal GoFundMe page to fund a trip to Ecuador was fired as a result. Stephanie Mullaley, a long-term substitute teacher at a high school in the Clinton Community School District, told students in spring 2026 that she had set up a GoFund

The parking lot was bigger than the town seemed to need, and that was the first clue. We only pulled off the road in Ohio because everyone in the car was hungry and a little cranky. An hour later we were scraping the last of the gravy off our plates...

A former Akron police officer is under investigation for allegedly misusing Flock license plate readers.

A Portage County man has spent the better part of 15 years fighting to stay inside a county-appraised $4.5 million mansion, and a court has now approved his eviction.

Being ranked 745th wouldn’t usually elicit wild applause. But a high school with that ranking among almost 18,000 schools nationally is a different matter. So the Revere Board of Education received good news when Principal Doug Faris announced that Revere High improved its ranking in U.S. News & World Report’s annual l

STOW, Ohio -- Stow is building a 2,500-person outdoor amphitheater that city officials hope will do more than bring concerts to town: They want it to help revive a struggling shopping center and create a new entertainment destination. “To me, this is more than an amphitheater,” Councilman Cyle Feldman said....

A man who fired at Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force members was killed during an officer-involved incident in Akron, police said.