Category Archives: Local News

One person was injured in a house fire in Akron. Firefighters were called out to a home in the 1100 block of 2nd Avenue, off south Arlington, around 10pm Tuesday. The resident was taken to the hospita...

The north Canton Police Department arrested 2 suspects in connection with a shooting that occurred on February 5th. the shooting happened in the 300 block of Rose Lane Street. The 2 suspects, Jauron M...

Akron police are investigating the shooting death of a 28 year old man on Tuesday morning. Police and EMS responded around 1030am to a home in the 500 block of Nash Street and found Davian Floyd lying...

A Canton man will spend 4 years in prison for charges connected to the abduction that trigged a statewide alert. Jamie Triplett appeared in court yesterday. The case happened in September. A man had c...

Fiscal Officer Kristen Scalise is warning residents of a fraudulent website that is falsely representing itself as an official website of the Summit County Fiscal Office. The website falsely identifie...

Barberton police say one of their officers was hit with a hammer. The officer was responding to a domestic violence call between a father and his son, when the officer forced his way into the son's ro...

The Akron Police Department is urging the public "to please secure your firearms safely" while announcing the city has already experienced 7 firearm thefts from cars this year, six of those thefts hap...

A 24 year old man was shot in Akron late Monday evening. Akron police say it happened around 11pm Monday in the 1400 block of Andrus Street, off East Emerling Avenue, near Curtis Park. The victim, who...

In Akron, a teen was robbed at gunpoint during a Facebook Marketplace meetup. The 17 year old thought he was meeting someone who wanted to buy a hoodie he was selling on Marketplace. At least 4 people...

A 33 year old Akron woman was sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison for setting a fire to an apartment building on South Turkeyfoot Road that killed a resident's cat. Courtney Cooney will also be plac...