Before she was killed, Cora Baughman entered her neighbor’s garage with a gun and demanded to speak with him, the neighbor told dispatchers in two calls to 911 on Saturday morning.
In 2015, Kent resident Franklin Benedict was killed in his apartment with no apparent motive. The case remains unsolved with no leads.
Streetsboro officials want to increase the legal pressure on drivers who use their electronic devices behind the wheel.
The Portage County Sheriff’s Office has filed charges against a Village of Mantua police officer, alleging she endangered her 5-year-old son by leaving him alone with a man previously convicted of sexual battery.
The Kent Police Department is investigating an alleged robbery at the Kent branch of Huntington Bank on the morning of May 31.
The woman killed in Windham Township during a confrontation involving neighbors and law enforcement officers was identified as 66-year-old Cora Baughman, according to an Akron Beacon Journal report.
The Portage County Sheriff's Office arrested and charged a juvenile driver with failure to comply, theft of a motor vehicle and driving without an operator's license. One passenger, a minor, was charged with marijuana possession and released, and a second juvenile passenger was also released.
A 59-year-old Suffield man, Donald Small, has been charged with murder after deputies found his wife dead from knife wounds at their Winterhaven Drive home on Monday, the sheriff's office said in a statement.
Streetsboro police will increase their presence around the school district in response to a threatening message scrawled on a middle school bathroom on Dec. 13, which appeared just two days after a picture of a BB gun on social media caused widespread concern.
Mantua Village Council Member Scott Weaver has been charged with menacing, a fourth-degree misdemeanor, after a verbal exchange with a village resident during a Nov. 7 council workshop.
With Ohio’s new “permitless carry” law set to take effect June 12, Portage County law enforcement agencies say the new rules increase the risks of their already stressful jobs, prompting them to update their training.
Portage County and Kent law enforcement officials say they will simply charge offenders under state law instead of under Kent law, which until the November election mirrored the Ohio Revised Code.