Mayor Dan Horrigan and the Akron Parks Collaborative announcing the winners of the 2021 Akron Parks Challenge Thursday. Both Kerr Park in West Akron and Jewett Park in Middlebury are receiving $100,000 in grant money to improve the parks. This is the third installment of the Parks Challenge that calls…
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Wednesday, 02 June 2021 10:37
UPDATE: Orange Barrel Alert: Huge Akron Highway Project Starts Tonight
Written by Jeanne Destro
A $161 Million dollar highway construction project that will close ramps, tear up lanes, and require detours on I-76/77, and Route 8 in the Akron area for months, gets underway tonight, Friday June 4. It was supposed to start last night, but got delayed by rain. Phase One of the…
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Tuesday, 01 June 2021 09:22
Multiple Life Prison Sentences for "Worst of The Worst" Akron Murderer
Written by Jeanne Destro
Summit County Prosecutor Sheri Bevan Walsh is calling 27 year old Shaquille Anderson, "the worst of the worst", for murdering four people in Akron. Summit County Common Pleas Court Judge, Alison McCarty, sentenced Anderson to four consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole, in connection with the deaths of…
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Thursday, 27 May 2021 12:05
Akron City Councilman Rich Swirsky Dies from Cancer
Written by Jeanne Destro
Ward One Akron City Councilman, Rich Swirsky, has died at the age of 68, from Leukemia. He stepped back from public life several months ago; relinquishing his day to day duties on City Council, while he battled the disease. A lifelong Akron resident, Rich Swirsky was elected as the Ward…
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Akron police chased down and arrested a murder suspect last night (Tuesday, May 25), in connection with the shooting death of 28 year old Cameron Murray. His body was found in the backyard of a home on 24th Street Southwest in Kenmore, on Monday. 25 year old Akron resident,…
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Akron Police are investigating the murder of an as yet unidentified 28 year old man who was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the backyard of a home in the 22 hundred block of 24th Street SW last night (Monday, May 24). It is the 23rd homicide in Akron this…
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Akron Police say an altercation between three men on an Akron Metro bus ended with a deadly shooting Tuesday evening. Just about 5 p.m., APD says officers working at the Metro RTA transit center at 631 South Broadway Street in Akron heard gunshots and responded. On their approach, they noticed…
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Tuesday, 18 May 2021 09:39
Texas Woman Missing for Years Found in Summit County, Reunited with Family
Written by Ryan Lang
A woman who had been missing since 2017 is reunited with her family after showing up in an Akron homeless shelter. The Summit County Sheriff's Office is reporting the remarkable story of a now 69-year-old woman who took a flight from Oklahoma to Ohio with a friend years ago. The…
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(City of Akron) Akron, Ohio, May 17, 2021 — Due to updated recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Ohio Department of Health, and Summit County Public Health, Mayor Dan Horrigan and Council President Margo Sommerville have asked Akron City Council to rescind Ordinance No. 214-2020 which required all persons in public places within the city to…
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The Summit County Sheriff's Office is asking the public's help identifying a man who reportedly robbed the Circle K on Massillon Road in Green Saturday morning. According to the report, at about 2 a.m., the suspect walked into the store at 3634 Massillon Road, threatened the employee behind the counter,…
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Thursday, 13 May 2021 11:10
Governor to Lift Health Orders, Incentivize Vaccine
Written by Ryan Lang
During his statewide address Wednesday, Governor Mike DeWine announced that as of June 2nd, three weeks from Wednesday, the state will lift all remaining health orders. As of Wednesday's update from the governor, the state was a 123 cases of COVID-19 per hundred thousand residents. Governor DeWine noted that we…
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The Akron Fire Water Rescue Dive Team pulled a car from the Ohio and Erie Canal in Akron Tuesday. The Akron Fire Fighters Association Local 330 posted that there were no injuries. It's unclear at this point how the vehicle wound up in the canal.
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Akron Police are reporting troubling overdose statistics in the city for the first part of the year. According to News 5, the department is reporting that between January 1st and April 30th this year, there were 60 deadly drug overdose deaths in Akron, compared to 25 over the same time…
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Tuesday, 11 May 2021 07:59
Stow Police Looking for Person of Interest in Giant Eagle Thefts
Written by Ryan Lang
Stow Police are hoping to get some help from the public finding a person of interest in two "high dollar" thefts from the Giant Eagle on State Route 59. Here is the post from the Stow Police Department on Facebook:
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