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LOUISVILLE, Ohio (news Talk 1480 WHBC) – A large, smokey two-alarm fire on Friday afternoon at the former ATI Materials steel plant on the west side of Louisville. The city’s fire department says plastic stored in the building sent black smoke in the air. The city says chemicals...

A phone scammer who recently conned a Solon man into sending him $3,000 reportedly told the man, "thank you for making my daughter's Christmas" before hanging up.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Did you leave money behind in a jail commissary account after being released? Are you owed cash from an old court case, a forfeited land sale or family inheritance that you forgot about? Could a few cents — or a few thousand dollars — be sitting in county records under your name?

BROOK PARK, Ohio (WOIO) - The Ohio State Highway Patrol wants to hire 250 more troopers in the next year as the agency works to get ahead of attrition and maintain its workforce. “We want to get ahead of the attrition and our workforce has been going down slightly. So...

TALLMADGE, Ohio — Ryan Vietmeier, the Tallmadge man who was indicted for aggravated murder in the shooting death of his father, Dennis, has been found not guilty by reason of insanity by a Summit County judge. According to court records, Summit County Common Pleas Court Judge Christine Croce made...

The Summit County Sheriff's Office recovered $110,000 for a Green resident who reported a cryptocurrency investment scam on Oct. 8. After the resident reported a "significant loss" from fraud, the sheriff’s office's Detective Bureau initiated an investigation using detailed information and financial records provided...

The Cleveland Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office conducted the investigation.

.oembed-frame { width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0; border: 0; } For the first time in Summit County Jail history, an inmate has earned a high school diploma while still incarcerated, marking a milestone for the Summit County Sheriff’s Office’s Career Prep+ program. The graduate, Demarkus Minter, attended weekly...

The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s suggestion that it might ask for a tax increase landed with a thud among our readers, who already feel overtaxed, underheard and unconvinced that the region’s transit system reflects how people live and work today. I asked readers what they thought in...

STARK COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - Massillon firefighters now believe reports of a missing hunter are not true. “After all the effort put in last night and this morning, we believe this is more likely a hoax,” said Massillon Fire Chief Matt Heck Monday afternoon. On Sunday, officials began getting...