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CLEVELAND — Donnie Allen, the 25-year-old Cleveland man accused of killing Benjamin McComas of Avon Lake in a shooting at an RTA station, has been indicted by a Cuyahoga County grand jury. According to court records, he was indicted on the following charges. 1 count of aggravated murder. 2...

Thousands of people are in the dark Monday morning as strong winds blow through Northeast Ohio.

How did a woman wearing a puffy, green tulle dress and black combat boots find herself posing upside down under a flower mural on West Market Street?. The short answer: Ice cream pays her bills, and art saves her soul. The longer explanation includes a rewind to the COVID pandemic....

STARK COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - The patient accused of shooting an Aultman Hospital employee this past June, was scheduled to have a competency hearing in Stark County Court of Common Pleas Monday; however, it was continued until Jan. 26, 2026. In July, James Fair pleaded not guilty by reason of...

SANDY TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WOIO) - The Stark County Sheriff’s Office located a missing 19-year-old. Jayden Butler, 19, went missing Friday evening around 11:30 p.m. The Stark County Sheriff’s Office posted on social media Saturday evening he has been found.

Ohioans ringing in the new year will face a changing legal landscape, with new laws taking effect that touch everything from minimum wage to cellphone use in schools. A series of statewide changes beginning in January is expected to affect households across Summit County and Northeast Ohio. The updates reach into...

Deepshikha Bhati is a full-time faculty member and lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Kent State University at Stark . Her interest in computer science began with a curiosity about how systems work and how technology can solve real-world problems. “During my graduate studies, I worked with computer vision...

FAIRLAWN, Ohio — The City of Fairlawn received a $21 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Safe Streets and Roads for All program, officials announced Friday. The money will be used to improve safety on busy Route 18, where there have been at least five deadly...

An Avon Local Schools bus driver called police at 3:27 p.m. Dec. 12 to report a school bus violation that occurred at 7:27 a.m. that day. There was no further information available at the time of the report. Property damage, Hunters Trail. A resident reported finding “suspicious damage” to a...

For the second year, the Wadsworth Chamber of Commerce – alongside Lowe’s Wadsworth, the Wadsworth Public Library, Main Street Wadsworth, the city of Wadsworth, Wadsworth City Council and Wadsworth City Schools – is presenting Memorial LightFest, a free, drive-through Christmas tree lighting display at Memorial Park...