Akron man mistakes 22-year-old daughter as burglar, shoots her, police say
AKRON: A 22-year-old woman is expected to survive after her father mistook her for a burglar and shot her, Akron police said.Police said the incident unfolded like this in the 1400 block of Onondago...
View ArticleCould fire bugs behind Springfield Township fires be responsible for recent...
SPRINGFIELD TWP. — Detectives have arrested three teens for setting two vacant homes ablaze over the past six months, police said.During one of the house fires earlier this month, a township...
View ArticleStark County Sheriff Maier jumps in chilly creek, helps save 2 children
CANTON — Stark County Sheriff George T. Maier and Canton police officer Jeff Hothem were nearby when a car rolled down an embankment and into a muddy creek Thursday, officials said. Maier jumped into...
View ArticleTwo horses walk into a Canton gaming parlor....and then police show up (a...
CANTON — Two Tennessee walking horses — Charm and Master Charm — were rescued this week from a shuttered Canton gaming parlor after passersby saw the barnyard creatures banging their heads against the...
View Article76 year-old Goodyear Heights woman stabbed by her son, Akron police say
AKRON: Police say a 76-year-old woman died Tuesday after being stabbed in the chest and abdomen by her son.It’s unclear what prompted the attack, police said, which happened about 3:10 p.m. in the 300...
View ArticleGoodyear Heights convenience store owner shot in face after pulling gun on...
A Goodyear Heights convenience store owner who pulled his own gun on a knife-wielding robber Tuesday ended up pistol-whipped and shot in the face, Akron police said.William W. Goodwin, 34, is expected...
View ArticleTrue crime: Woman gives phone number to rent movie, then claims to have a...
A woman left a big clue behind when she robbed an Akron video rental store Tuesday afternoon — her own phone number, police records show. According to police, the woman approached the counter at the...
View ArticleGrand theft (non)auto: Bullets fly in Akron after man tries to recover stolen...
Akron officers on patrol in East Akron Tuesday night heard gunshots, but didn’t respond to a 9-1-1 call: The apparent target of the bullets came to running them, police said.The incident happened about...
View ArticleTuesday was hot and violent day in Akron: Homicide, a robbery, spurts of...
A Goodyear Heights convenience store clerk pulled a gun on a knife-wielding robber Tuesday and ended up pistol-whipped and shot in the face with his own weapon, Akron police said.William W. Goodwin,...
View ArticleAuthorities search two nearby houses in connection to Akron fire that killed...
Investigators searched two houses on Hillcrest Street on Thursday afternoon as part of a probe into the nearby house fire Monday that left a family of seven dead.Akron Police Lt. Rick Edwards cautioned...
View ArticleInvestigators charge neighbor with murder and arson in Akron fire that killed...
Stanley Ford last week could have seen the night sky glow orange from his Hillcrest Street home as a fast-moving fire around the corner on Fultz Street killed a mother, father and five children.Last...
View ArticleWho is Stan Ford? Court records and interviews paint complicated picture of...
Glass shattered in the front window of Lindell Lewis’ Fultz Street home one night near Christmas 2015. The retired bricklayer with a bum hip awoke to find a broken pane in his front door, too. Lewis...
View ArticleTony Huggins, family patriarch and preacher, helps put seven relatives to...
Tony Huggins planned to tease his 14-year-old nephew about his sudden new devotion to church when he saw him Mother’s Day. “I found out that he was kind of liking a young lady in the congregation,”...
View ArticleAkron boy, 9, calls 911 after baby brother overdoses on opiates; mother...
Rescuers revived a 1-year-old boy who suffered an overdose after ingesting opiates Thursday evening in a home on Gale Street in West Akron. Authorities said the boy’s 9-year-old brother called 911 at...
View ArticleOpiate crisis: Akron area children at risk, toddler nearly dies from overdose
Akron’s opiate crisis nearly killed a toddler Thursday. The call came to 911 at 6:19 p.m. “I need an ambulance. My baby is not breathing,” a woman said. When a dispatcher asked the woman for her...
View ArticleAkron man charged with assault after police say he didn’t share HIV-positive...
An Akron man has been charged with felonious assault for allegedly not telling a woman he had sex with that he is HIV-positive.Stacey Lopez Barrow, 46, of Akron turned himself in to detectives...
View ArticleMan charged with stabbing, then shooting Goodyear Heights store clerk with...
AKRON: Police have charged a man who they say shot a Goodyear Heights convenience store clerk with the clerk’s own gun during a May 17 robbery.Rueben Jovone Woodruff, 22, of Dundee Avenue, faces...
View ArticleOpiate crisis: Another Akron child overdoses; Summit County toddlers at risk
Summit County’s opiate crisis this year has taken an unsettling new turn, hitting toddlers who don’t know the difference between candy and heroin or some other dangerous drug.A 1-year-old Akron boy...
View ArticleBryon Macron: The mystery of the Lafayette Township trustee’s death continues...
LAFAYETTE TWP.: A Christmas tree trimmed with white lights, a heart ornament and the word “hope” still stands in the front room of Bryon Macron’s tidy colonial at the end of a cul-de-sac outside...
View Article5 slayings in Stark, Cuyahoga counties linked to same suspect
A 45-year-old man has been charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of a Stark County couple, and investigators say the same man is a suspect in the slayings of a mother and her two daughters...
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