Kent News

Helping families that have a member in jail or prison will be the focus of a presentation by Linda Davis, the executive director of Loved Ones of Prisoners, at the Thursday meeting of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Portage County.

The hourly rates to park in the Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority's Kent Central Gateway parking facility have been announced, though they won't be taking effect until early July.

Here are this week's most bizarre and talked about police reports. All information was provided by police reports from departments in Patch communities.

In the past four years structures across Kent's landscape have quickly been disappearing.

The National Biosafety and Biocontainment Training Program and Kent State University are offering a five-day series of courses in Biosafety and Biocontainment for BSL-3 Laboratory Workers.

Three Portage County residents who held up a Kent drive-thru at knifepoint in January recently were sentenced to prison terms on aggravated robbery charges.

This year's group of Real Heroes honored by the American Red Cross of Summit and Portage Counties on Thursday included two youngsters who saved family members' lives, along with a hospital telephone operator and police and firefighters.

Two longtime staff members of Stanton Middle School in Kent have received the Kent Board of Education's Dr.

Kent City Council gave final approval Wednesday to seek funding a new Safety Administration Building through an income tax increase on the November ballot.

Warm weather and sunny skies are expected to greet visitors to the Kent Environmental Council's annual Cuyahoga River Day festival on Friday and Saturday.

The home Kent State University President Lester Lefton built and has lived in since 2006 is now the official presidential home for the university.

Seventh-grader Myles Spear recently won the history contest about Kent history and the railroad at Stanton Middle School in Kent.

The Kent Board of Education held a "Community Celebration" Tuesday to thank residents for approving a levy on the May 7 ballot.

Here! Now! Imperative: not to be avoided: necessary. In a typical week, the show will cover not only all the big news stories, but also the stories behind the stories, or some of the less crucial but equally intriguing things happening in the world.

Mayor Jerry Fiala and members of the Kent Area Chamber of Commerce welcomed Dino Palmieri and members of his staff to their new home at 215 South Water Street in downtown Kent.

A multi-national manufacturer and distributor of resilient-rubber, watertight sealing systems and components for underground infrastructure, Hamilton Kent is marking a major milestone in its history with the celebration of its 70th anniversary.

A Streetsboro woman who struck and injured two Kent State University students with a car in downtown Kent in January 2012, then fled the scene before police could stop her was sentenced to 10 days in the Portage County jail on Monday.

There is $62 billion in the Ohio's General Revenue Fund. It's at an all-time high, said State Rep.

Tonight Kent-area residents have the chance to help guide the future planning and operations of the Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority.

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Ryan S. Barnhouse, a 2006 graduate of Theodore Roosevelt High School in Kent, was recently awarded the Battle Efficiency "E" achievement along with other sailors attached to the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut .