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AKRON, Ohio (News Talk 1480 WHBC) – A 30-year-old Canton man on trial in Akron for a November 2024 shooting death there was found not guilty of murder on Wednesday. Ryan Schafer had maintained the shooting of Daryk Maki of Akron was in self-defense after he’d gone to his ex-girlfriend’s house in the Ellet area to...

MAGNOLIA, Ohio (News Talk 1480 WHBC) – The Grinch has made an early arrival, stealing 200 freshly cut Christmas trees from the Smith Evergreen Nursery retail location on South Main Street in Magnolia. Owner Jim Smith tells WHBC News he believes someone pulled up using a box truck or...

MEDINA, Ohio -- Few people spend the bulk of their time in a cemetery. But since 1998, TaMara Conde has done just that. Owner of Historic Gravestone Services in New Salem, Mass., Conde travels around the country restoring historic gravestones. She spent several days this past fall working in Medina’s...

Those needing to travel on Black Friday in Northeast Ohio are continuing to be impacted by snow and windy conditions.

BATH — Imagine two sisters, on vacation, browsing at a local bookstore. In their professional lives, both are ready for something new. One woman asks the other, “What would you do, if you could do anything at all?”. “It would be so cool to run a bookstore like...

AKRON, Ohio — No one wants to spend their holiday in a hospital bed, but when it happens, you adjust. For some people, that means being with loved ones in the hospital. Akron Children's sees hundreds of thousands of patients a year. A small percentage of those patients find themselves spending the holidays in the...

AKRON, Ohio (WOIO) - Clifton, the Humane Society of Summit County’s longest resident who spent over 1,000 days waiting to be adopted, has finally found his “fur-ever” home!. This 4-year-old boy came in as a stray transfer from a local animal hospital in Jan. 2023... which means...

BEREA, Ohio – A Berea boy, 16, was arrested at about 3 pm. Nov. 11 for trespassing on the campus of Berea-Midpark High School, 165 East Bagley Road, after he had been banned from the property two weeks earlier. A Berea-Midpark official called police at about 2:30 p.m. and...

HARTVILLE – After a morning of coffee and conversation, my friend Christa Kozy and I decided it was time to check out the newly opened Cirelli Deli and Catering at 510 S. Prospect Ave. The deli offers a daily hot bar from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., featuring rotating specials that range from Italian classics to homemade...

Columbus, Ohio – In a continued effort to modernize correctional infrastructure across Ohio, Governor Mike DeWine and Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Director Annette Chambers-Smith announced that more than $24 million in new grants will be distributed to three counties for jail construction and...