The University of Akron is closing a budget gap with spending cuts and a tuition increase. The UA board of trustees approved a 2% tuition hike today, part of a… 
A Stark County Jail inmate was found dead in his cell early this morning, in an apparent suicide. 39-year old Nicholas Christmas of Canton was discovered by jail staff delivering… 
Akron Police are investigating a robbery that occurred at a barbershop Tuesday morning. The owner of the All City Barbershop on Pioneer Street reported that after he opened the shop,… 
Arson investigators are looking into two separate fires at vacant homes Akron early this morning. Firefighters were called to a home on 40 East Archwood for reports of a blaze… 
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(ASHLAND, Ohio) -- The lawyer for an Ohio suspect accused of keeping a mentally disabled woman and her daughter as slaves and threatening them with deadly snakes, says his client is innocent and the alleged victim was free to come and go as she pleased.
The alleged victim, a 29-year-old woman, claims she was kept against her...
Hudson-LaPore Family Photo(CHICAGO) -- A body found in Lake Michigan has been identified as missing Chicago student Austin LaPore, investigators said.
"The family of Austin Hudson LaPore positively identified his body earlier today," an official with the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office told ABC News.
Authorities pulled the body of LaPore,...
State of Massachusetts(BOSTON) -- Hitman John Martorano admitted on the stand Wednesday that he lied to his best friend before he shot him in the back of the head.
"I couldn't tell him I was going to shoot him," Martorano told the court of the murder of John Callahan, a close friend for decades who was murdered, the hitman testified, because...
An Akron man is dead following a two-vehicle crash in New Franklin.
State troopers at the Canton patrol post say it happened about 12:40 p.m. Tuesday when a minivan driven by George Derry, 73, pulled out of a parking lot on Manchester Road and into the path of a panel van driven by William Palmeri, 33, also of Akron. The impact sent Derry's van off the road.
Palmeri and his passenger were not hurt, but Derry was pronounced dead at Baberton City Hospital about 45 minutes after the wreck.
Troopers say Derry was not wearing a safety belt.
The crash is still under investigation.
A Peninsula woman is dead following a two-vehicle crash on Route 303 in Boston Heights.
The Summit County Medical Examiner's Office says an autopsy will be performed today on Melissa Pearsall, 33, to determine what caused her to lose control of her vehicle Friday afternoon. She went off one side of the road, then cross back over and hit another car in the opposite lane.
Pearsall was pronouced dead at the scene.
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