Streetsboro officials want to increase the legal pressure on drivers who use their electronic devices behind the wheel.
Under Ohio’s workers’ compensation laws, mental health claims are almost always denied. In the last five years in Portage County, there have been 27 amputation injuries and four deaths claims, according to state data, but Ohio largely ignores the ripple effects of workplace tragedies.
Vandals struck the Kent city gazebo at the corner of Franklin Avenue and West Main Street, spray painting the phrase “Jesus is King” on its wooden floorboards.
Theodore Roosevelt High School was again placed on lockdown Monday morning and a student was detained, the second consecutive day of disruptions caused by threats of violence against the Kent City School District.
A man threatened to bring an AK-47 to Walls Elementary School in Kent on Friday afternoon, prompting “precautionary safety measures” led by the Kent Police Department with support from the Kent State police.
In 2015, Kent resident Franklin Benedict was killed in his apartment with no apparent motive. The case remains unsolved with no leads.
A Randolph man was arrested after shooting someone on Fairground Road and leading multiple law enforcement agencies on a manhunt through his forested and booby trapped property, the Portage County Sheriff’s Office said.
I take this opportunity to respond to a June 6th letter to the editor regarding the Memorial Day party at Plum Creek Park.
Kent police are investigating a Memorial Day party at Plum Creek Park they say attracted about 2,000 revelers and resulted in damage to the park and two arrests on concealed weapons charges.
The Kent Police Department is investigating an alleged robbery at the Kent branch of Huntington Bank on the morning of May 31.
After Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski took office in 2021, his chief deputy assured Portage County commissioners that getting body cameras was a priority. Over a year later, Zuchowski has not adopted the technology, even as much smaller police departments in the county outfit their officers with cameras and county commissioners say they would provide the necessary funding.
At 9:32 a.m. on May 14, a Garrettsville police officer and a Portage County sheriff’s deputy responded to a 911 call about an armed woman trying to break into her neighbor’s house in Windham Township.