Solomon Interview KSU criminal justice prof: Cops use force because that’s what they’re trained to do Starr Solomon: ‘Total, we’re looking...
Kent Police Lieutenant Mike Lewis during a video press conference on Saturday. Three shot after a home invasion in Kent,...
Kent Police Officers Lenny Kunka (left) and Kyle Auckland (right) who were shot responding to an armed home invasion in...
When Deerfield resident Haley DeYoung, 20, thinks about Kaylee Freitag, she thinks of the color yellow. She remembers hours, days and years just hanging out and doing what teenaged girls do: visiting a nearby pond, coloring, listening to music, watching movies and going to Eastwood Mall.
A Southeast student was alone in the basement with her boyfriend when she died. Prosecutors say he killed her.
Streetsboro City Council member John Ruediger resigned from his position Monday after being charged with sending inappropriate photos of himself to a 13-year-old boy.
Kent police are investigating multiple incidents involving groups of minors brawling in downtown Kent.
Two recent fights were caught on video: one from Saturday that took place on the steps of Acorn Alley and another from April that appeared to start at Dan Smith Community Park before spilling onto the sidewalk along Erie Street.
The sheriff’s office did not disclose how many deputies fired, how many shots they fired or how much time elapsed between arriving on the scene and firing their weapons. Spidalieri declined to provide The Portager with information beyond what he disclosed in the press release, including the names of the deputies.
Matthew Morse’s spouse told a 911 dispatcher her husband was acting violently and was likely intoxicated on the evening of July 4, when deputies shot and killed Morse after he allegedly refused to drop the weapon he was carrying.
A psychological evaluation has found 18-year-old Zachary Blosser competent to stand trial in the death of his girlfriend, Kaylee Freitag, who was shot to death in Nelson Township in March.
Three Portage County police chiefs fielded questions from residents Thursday about police policies around use of force, community oversight and mental health crisis intervention.
Ravenna police arrested two individuals, apparently both students, after school yesterday for having a gun on the campus of Maplewood Career Center, Superintendent Randy Griffith said in an email to the school community early this morning.