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MAPLE HEIGHTS, Ohio — One person is dead after an overnight weekend crash in Maple Heights. Maple Heights police say it was shortly after midnight Sunday when they received a call about a crash in the 5400 block of Dunham Road. Upon their arrival, police found one person involved...

AKRON, Ohio — The Akron Zoo announced the arrival of Finn and Silvie — two yellow-backed duikers, a new species for the zoo. Finn and Stevie will be living in the mixed species habitat in Landon & Cynthia Knight Pride of Africa. Yellow-backed duikers are a type of...

Powerful winds swept across Ohio this weekend, causing widespread damage, power outages and travel disruptions across much of northeast Ohio. The gusty winds will continue today as another high wind advisory is in effect. The strongest wind gust recorded Friday reached 85 miles per hour at Cleveland Burke Lakefront...

A Mexican national has been sentenced to federal prison for illegally entering the United States and then trafficking kilogram-quantities of cocaine in Northeast Ohio. Jaime Ortega-Urquidi, 63, was sentenced to 188 months (15 years and 6 months) in prison by U.S. District Judge John R. Adams after pleading guilty in...

For nearly a decade, Jane Greenland led an initiative to change the name of West Akron’s Schneider Park to memorialize the people buried there. Greenland, who has lived across the street from the park for 32 years, told Akron City Council members she didn’t know the park was the resting place for hundreds of...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The restaurant owner accused of using Covid relief funds for his own personal expenses, pleaded guilty Monday in Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Court. Marcelo Fadul Neves pleaded guilty to:. One count of aggravated theft. One count of theft from a person in a protected...

OHIO — Authorities are investigating after a woman was found unresponsive in a cell at the Portage County Jail Sunday evening. According to a news release from the sheriff’s office, Pauline Ferrell, 42, was discovered around 8:30 p.m. during a routine security check inside the jail. Officials said jail staff...

A Ravenna elementary school that closed in 2025 will be reopening in August as a tuition-free public charter school for students from kindergarten to fifth grade. Portage Leadership Academy recently began enrolling students for the 2026-27 school year. The school will operate in the former West Park Elementary School...

At age 77, lifelong Akron resident Theresa Singleton has lived a long and fulfilling life — one that she keeps quietly stored away in her memories and in the stories she tells. She was separated from her four siblings at age 9 when her mother passed away and, from...

BRUNSWICK, Ohio -- Do you ever wonder why some memory or another pops into your head?. For some reason, the last few days I have been thinking of the last time I served on jury duty. I was one of two alternate jurors selected for the murder trial of Ramona...