Category Archives: Local News

The Portage County Sheriff's Office is collecting donations of non-perishable food and other items until December 23rd. Donations, including toys, baby items, winter apparel, can be dropped off in the...

Fire crews in Akron discovered a body Saturday morning while extinguishing a blaze behind a vacant building on South Arlington Street. According to this release, the Akron Fire Department responded ar...

The Ohio Department of Transportation is renewing its call for drivers to give snow plows plenty of room to do their work in clearing roads after 8 ODOT snow plows have already been hit this winter se...

Ohio governor Mike DeWine vetoed a bill that would have allowed 14 and 15 year olds to work longer hours on school nights. If passed, Senate Bill 50 would have made it legal for them to work until 9pm...

The president of Summa Health System Medical Group pleaded not guilty to felony revenge porn charges. Vivek Bhalla was in court, facing charges of dissemination of an image of another person, after Co...

The Windham Police Department will be at Dollar General, 9132 N. Main Street for its annual fill-a-cruiser event, 2-to-4pm on Sunday, December 7th. Donations of new, unwrapped toys, makeup, and hygien...

There were 8 fatal crashes across the Thanksgiving holiday leading to 11 deaths, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, same amount in 2024. According to the patrol, 2 of the deaths were OVI rela...

A 30 year old Kent man was sentenced to 4 years probation after a plea deal involving 2 young girls. Samuel Piltz received a year of intense supervised probation and 3 years of basic probation. The Po...

Akron police are investigating the brutal homicide of a 44 year old woman. The Summit County Medical Examiners office says first responders were called out around 2:10am Saturday for shots fired in th...

A father and his 9 year old son were found with gunshot wounds inside a Mansfield home Saturday afternoon with what police believe was a murder-suicide. Officers responded to a home in the 900 block o...