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CANTON − A 25-year-old Canton Township man has avoided prison for accidentally killing his friend by backing a skid steer over him during a party in Perry Township. Stark County Common Pleas Judge Frank Forchione sentenced Michael A. Kennedy on March 12 based on the guilty plea Kennedy made March 2 to a reckless...

A jury should decide whether a Canton police officer was wrong to shoot through a fence and kill a man firing a semiautomatic rifle in the air to celebrate the new year, an appeals court has ruled. The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded a lower court was correct in finding that officer Robert Huber is not...

A changing of the guard has happened at the Highland Square landmark Mary Coyle ice cream shop. Michael Trecaso, who owned and operated Trecaso's Mary Coyle Fine Italian Cuisine & Ice Cream in the neighborhood for 39 years, sold the property and business to new owners Joe Sofio, Kristy Clark and Michael and...

BARBERTON, Ohio — School funding is getting cut across the state, but some school districts are being hit harder than others. In the state’s 2026 biennial budget, the fair school funding plan was abandoned, which left school districts around the state short of close to $3 billion over the next two years.

AKRON, Ohio — Archbishop Hoban sophomore Ella Greer is a competitor. It’s something she’s had to be her entire life as the youngest of four siblings. “We all love one another,” Ella Greer said. “We bicker sometimes, but me and my sister are really tight. My brothers are very tight as well.”

BARBERTON — Barberton City Council March 9 received an update from Hasenstab Architects and Higley Construction representatives on the city’s project to reconfigure the current municipal building at 576 W. Park Ave. as the new justice center and move the majority of the city’s departments to the former FirstMerit...

One teen is dead, and another is in custody after a Wednesday morning shooting incident in Akron. According to reports, a vehicle was fired upon just before 12:30 a.m. near the entrance ramp from East Tallmadge Avenue to State Route 8 South. The 28-year-old driver of the vehicle that was...

An Akron man was sentenced on Tuesday to 20 to 25 years in prison for raping a housekeeper at a Springfield Red Roof Inn in 2024. Cornelius Rogers, 24, has also been designated a Tier III sex offender, according to Summit County Prosecutor Elliot Kolkovich. Rogers was sentenced after pleading guilty in January to one...

Update: The Summit County Medical Examiner's Office stated March 11 that next of kin has been located. The Summit County Medical Examiner's Office is seeking the public’s help in locating any family members for a 58-year-old man who recently died in Akron. Michael Reglus died from natural causes on March 6, the...

The Stark County Sheriff's Office is asking for help in searching for a 14-year-old girl who went missing on Thursday.