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The Akron Police Department released body camera footage of a shooting that left a woman injured and gave an officer minor injuries in a South Akron neighborhood.
Former Akron police Capt. Doug Prade is up for parole for the first time on June 4. Here's a look at highlights of his murder ...
Ohio, we need to figure out what’s been going on with our racoons lately. Just before 1:45 a.m. Tuesday, police in Doylestown – a city in Wayne County, not far from Akron – were patrolling on Collier ...
Akron police said the suspect in a Sunday afternoon hit-and-run ran over a 50-year-old man and dragged him beneath his vehicle through a parking lot.
Both officers are on paid administrative leave as the Akron Police Department internally investigates. Not only was an ...
A teenage boy is dead after falling off a trailer during a Memorial Day parade in Ohio, officials say. The 13-year-old was part of a parade held in the community of Green. He fell ...
The cases have now been referred to the special prosecutions appointed to review the matter. The Jones case was appointed to the Attorney General’s Special Prosecution Section.
AKRON — Detectives seized enough fentanyl to kill over 100,000 people after a man rammed into multiple police cruisers in ...
Students at Mary McCleod Bethune Elementary School became excited when they saw their favorite police officer walk the halls this week. But University Circle’s Gloria Mercado’s lesson was a sobering ...
After Springfield Township police encountered a raccoon with a meth pipe during a recent traffic stop, they are working the family to find it a home.
AKRON, Ohio (WJW) — Akron police said they arrested a 31-year-old man who crashed his car into an apartment building, striking a gas meter and prompting an evacuation, then rammed a police ...