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Tallmadge City Schools in Ohio is eliminating transportation for hundreds of high school students this school year as the district works to reduce costs amid funding concerns and a series of failed levies, reported ABC 5. According to the news report, Superintendent Steve Wood said the district will no longer...

Shackled detainees shuffling across the Akron-Canton Airport tarmac have pushed a once-invisible aviation operation straight into the middle of Ohio’s immigration fight. As Haitian immigrants brace for the loss of Temporary Protected Status, Akron-Canton (CAK) keeps hosting charter flights tied to federal immigration e

ORRVILLE, Ohio (WOIO) - Police are asking for help identifying a woman wanted for identity fraud. According to police, the woman entered a local bank on July 28 at 1:30 p.m. and tried to withdraw money from another person’s account. Police said the suspect gave the teller a bogus...

DEA, ICE Operation Fifteen people are facing federal charges after a year-long investigation uncovered a...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (News Talk 1480 WHBC) – A 41-year-old Stark County man is the U.S. Marshal’s Northern Ohio Fugitive of the Week. Stephen Gales is charged with felonious assault for shooting a 20-year-old city man in the neck along Alan Page Drive SE on the afternoon of July 19, according to Canton police.

Nearly a year after an abandoned 1912 house in Highland Square sold at auction for $185,000 plus fees, its sale has closed — to a different buyer, for $100,000 more. Holly Wiley said Friday that she bought the seven-bedroom house at 74 Maplewood Ave. for $289,000 to turn it into a transitional home for survivors of abu

Drunken driving, I-77: On June 25, police observed a blue Ford Edge with one headlight and no license plate driving northbound on I-77. The officer attempted to pull over the Ford, which instead exited the highway at Royalton Road where it went through a red light and started speeding. The...

PORTAGE COUNTY - Michael J. Kirwan Reservoir, also known as West Branch Lake, has tested positive for E. coli bacteria. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) issued an advisory Tuesday for beach-goers, stating the area contained “high bacteria levels.”. E. coli is a bacteria that lives within the...

A Streetsboro City Schools employee known as the "singing bus driver" won the second The Voice of Ravenna contest. Carl Seiter took first place in the competition, while Cheyenne Foster placed second. Mark Foster, a country singer who lives in Atwater, took third. The winners were crowned at the end of the Ravenna Rock

The following item is a written record of the Ward 8 meeting from July 15 compiled by Akron Documenter Melanie Mohler. It is not a reported story. Documenters are residents who are trained to observe and document local government meetings. Their notes are edited before publication for clarity and accuracy — unless quot