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AKRON, Ohio – The fourth annual Akron City Festival will take place over two days this year. The family friendly event that serves as the kickoff for the upcoming school year is scheduled for Sept. 5-6. The first day of the festival will feature live entertainment and the second day will feature a parade and festival w

The cleanup continues at an Akron, Ohio, area golf course after severe storms Aug. 10. The Cleveland Clinic's Challenge Golf course on Flickinger Road in Lakemore has been closed since a thunderstorm Monday morning toppled numerous trees at the course. Michelle Gant, director of outpatient therapy services at Cleveland

Hinckley police arrested a 34-year-old man Wednesday after responding to a domestic violence incident.

Creekside Restaurant & Bar has been closed all week due to a lengthy power outage costing the business to lose all of its raw and prepared food.

Three of Ohio's biggest shuttered auto plants have been reborn as glass factories, warehouses and, soon, a hospital operations hub — but none of them have come close to matching the workforces they employed at their industrial peak. At the former GM assembly plant in Moraine, Fuyao Glass America now employs 3,022 worke

SUMMIT COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - The Summit County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public for help in finding a wanted Akron man. As part of the sheriff’s office’s Warrant Wednesday, the individual highlighted this week is Mladen Djakovic, 50. Djakovic is described by deputies as 5-feet-8-inches tall...

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio -- Two decades into its multiplatinum career, Five Finger Death Punch reminded fans heavy metal is alive and well at Tuesday night’s Blossom Music Center appearance. The night began with the quintet exploding onto the stage with the unrelenting “Welcome to the Circus” featuring a tatted-up...

VIENNA TWP. — The Ohio Attorney General’s Office has issued an Endangered Child Alert for surrounding counties as the search for a missing 17-year-old continues in Vienna Township. The alert for Landyn Zagorski was issued Wednesday morning and covers Trumbull, Ashtabula, Geauga, Mahoning, and Portage Counties. Accordin

STARK COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - The Canton and Bolivar firefighters who pulled an unconscious driver from the Nimishillen Creek earlier this month, were recognized at a ceremony Wednesday afternoon. The crash happened around 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 3. Canton firefighters said a 28-year-old man lost control of his pick-up truck..

The Orrville Railroad Heritage Society and the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank are inviting local businesses, organizations, churches and schools to participate in All Aboard to End Hunger during Hunger Action Month. Participants are asked to hold food and fund drives in advance of the event to support families facing h