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Nearly two months after Rittman Police Sergeant Scott Ries died in the line of duty, hundreds of people came together to remember him — not with a ceremony, but on the golf course.

With the imminent start of the 2026-27 school year, families may still be looking at their options — from their local Akron Public School site to a nearby community, private or homeschool enrollment. Making the choice before the first day of school, which is toward the end of August...

There were sunflowers, parked cars and people as far as the eye could see when pulling into Maize Valley Winery & Craft Brewery on Aug. 22. Thousands of visitors stopped by the annual Sunflower Festival and Market, held each year over two weekends in late August at Maize Valley Winery & Craft Brewery. The first weekend

Between the butter chicken and the chicken tikka masala, it’s not unusual for visitors to Akron’s Saffron Patch in the Valley to have their usual orders ready for the waiter. Tucked into a residential, shopping, restaurant and office complex in the Merriman Valley, Saffron Patch has been serving...

Drivers in Northeast Ohio should expect sobriety checkpoints this week as law enforcement agencies step up efforts to catch impaired drivers.

The Vienna Township Police Department is searching for a missing and endangered teen possibly in Ashtabula, Geauga, Mahoning and Portage counties.

More than 600 days after Akron Police Officer Davon Fields killed 15-year-old Jazmir Tucker on Thanksgiving night in 2024, Mayor Shammas Malik and Chief of Public Safety Craig Morgan decided that Fields had violated police department policies and fired him on Aug. 14. Malik said he got directly involved in...

Chronically struggling public schools could be converted into charter schools, have their leadership replaced or be forced to close, according to proposed changes Ohio wants federal education officials to approve. The proposal lists 16 ways to improve the state's lowest-performing schools, which include high schools wh

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The U.S. Marshals Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of a man wanted for allegedly shooting into a car. According to a Marshals release, Kaden Deland, 19, is wanted by the Stark County Sheriff’s Office and...

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Detroit Field Division conducted a multi-jurisdictional sweep in May, June and July that resulted in 619 arrests in eight cities throughout northern Ohio. Officers cleared 684 warrants for individuals wanted for assault, illegal drugs, firearms, … Read More » The post DEA arr