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AKRON — Summit County Children Services (SCCS) announces the launch of a new unit, embedded within the Intake Specialized Services Department, called the Substance Use Impact Team, or SUIT unit. This newly formed unit, which began Dec. 1, will respond to reports in which there are ingestion incidents involving...

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (WXIX) - A suspect stabbed a victim 33 times in the northern Cincinnati suburbs and then fled the scene in a police cruiser before he was apprehended hours later in Northern Kentucky, according to Middletown Police Chief Earl Nelson. Independence police took the suspect, Jonathan Crabtree, 24, in...

Thousands of FirstEnergy customers are without power Thursday afternoon.

AKRON, Ohio (WOIO) - The suspect who distracted a store clerk to steal a gun behind the counter is on the loose, the Akron Police Department confirmed, and detectives need help identifying them. The theft happened at the Firestone Mini-Mart on Aster Avenue on Nov. 29, according to APD. APD...

STOW, Ohio (WOIO) - A Summit County Grand Jury indicted the man and woman accused in a road rage shooting in Cuyahoga Falls last month. Kamar Marshall Parham, 22, of Akron, was indicted on three counts of felonious assault and one count of tampering with evidence. Lashay Nicole Marie Jackson,...

A tanker truck rolled over on its side and closed an Ohio interstate on Wednesday.

Akeem Howard returned to court for sentencing after refusing legal counsel throughout his case. He was charged with two misdemeanor OVI counts, a felony charge of improper handling of firearms and a misdemeanor count of using a weapon while intoxicated. Howard entered a no-contest plea, meaning he accepted punishment...

Stark County Deputies arrested a man after a reported double stabbing in Canton Township. Both victims, who are his parents, were hospitalized, including his mother with life-threatening injuries.

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -This week’s Cuyahoga’s Most Wanted features a Maple Heights man accused in a violent domestic violence attack. According to Crime Stoppers of Cuyahoga County, in August Quinton Cleggett is accused of attacking his victim slamming their arm into a door. From there he allegedly broke...

The Slovak J Club continues to carry Akron’s Slovak heritage forward, one bowling frame, monthly dinner and weekly fish fry at a time. It’s a reminder that, more than a century ago, immigrant communities here built spaces meant to last — and that Akron’s history doesn’t just sit in archives. It still shows up for...