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WASHINGTON — **WARNING: THIS STORY DISCUSSES SUICIDE. READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED**. The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously Thursday to advance a bipartisan package of bills named after a Streetsboro teenager who died by suicide after falling victim to sextortion. The James T. Woods Act is named after...

Tucked into a plaza in Norton, Ohio, this taco spot has built the kind of reputation that gets people willingly driving 40 minutes for a table. The menu jumps across bold global flavors, every bite lands with real punch, and the birria tacos arrive with a rich dipping broth that easily becomes the star of the whole...

STARK COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - East Sparta firefighters are on the scene of a fire at a landfill on Saturday afternoon. According to a Facebook post, at around 1:30 p.m., firefighters were at Countywide Landfill for a confined fire. Personnel from the landfill are also responding to the scene to...

AKRON, Ohio (WOIO) - The Akron Police Department assisted a neighboring agency involving a semi-truck fleeing officers Saturday evening, resulting in an officer-involved shooting. In the 1700 block of E Market Street, Akron officers located the semi-truck in a parking lot where the driver struck multiple cruisers...

Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers in Canton are investigating a Thursday, Feb. 26, crash that caused three people to be thrown from an SUV.

A proposed new federal law, that was inspired by the suicide of a Streetsboro High School student victimized by the online crime known as sextortion, cleared a major hurdle on Thursday.

Five people escaped a house fire Friday in Canton, and while crews were able to rescue two animals from the home, a dog was found dead inside.

MEDINA TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WOIO) - One person was injured after a commercial fire in Medina Township on Thursday afternoon. According to the Medina Fire Department, at around 4:22 p.m., crews responded to a large commercial fire on Pearl Road. Firefighters arrived to find heavy smoke from the front and back...

AKRON, Ohio – After a six-year hiatus in Akron, Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse is set to reopen Friday, March 6, the restaurant announced. The restaurant is at 4073 Medina Road at the northeast corner of Ohio 18 and Interstate 77. “We’re excited. We were disappointed we couldn’t get that...

CANTON ‒ On what would have been Christopher Smith's 36th birthday, his mother recalled the challenge of picking up the pieces after his shooting death. The pain was not new; Barbara Smith lost another son years earlier. "Christopher carried his brother's remembrance with him every single day," the mother of five...