Portage County News

Portage County commissioners and Sheriff David Doak continued Monday to look for ways to cut $950,000 from his proposed 2010 budget.

By Dave O'Brien Record-Courier staff writer In a recent sweep of the village, Windham police arrested nine alleged drug offenders - eight adults and one juvenile - on a total of 21 felony and eight misdemeanor charges.

PORT CLINTON -- Michael Schenk said his daughter Jessica blessed their family and brought everyone a lot of laughs over the past 19 years.

A Kent State student died this morning, almost a week after sustaining a severe head injury during a fight off campus.

Police say a bank robbery suspect in Ohio may have eaten evidence when he gobbled a piece of paper while handcuffed and lying across the hood of a police cruiser.

The second election tie settled by a coin toss Friday put incumbent Karen Clyde on Garrettsville Village Council for another term.

Two Akron men were held in the Portage County jail in connection with a beating that critically injured a Kent State University student.

A former Portage County resident is in a Cleveland hospital fighting for his life after being struck by the H1N1 flu virus.

The Portage County Health Department will host a free vaccination clinic for groups at high risk of contracting the H1N1 or "swine flu" from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the Ravenna Elks Lodge, 776 N. Freedom St.

A Randolph man, wanted by police after an Oct. 26 Portage County Drug Task Force raid at his residence uncovered a clandestine methamphetamine lab, was arrested Tuesday.

The Portage County Suicide Prevention Coalition will host the Annual National Survivors of Suicide Day broadcast and conference, Nov.

The price of freedom was written on the faces of the more than 200 men and women standing silent Wednesday on the lawn of the Portage County Courthouse in Ravenna.

You can't get much closer than the down-to-the-wire finish that left Jerry Fiala the apparent winner in the Kent mayor's race by a razor-thin margin of two votes.

CLEVELAND -- The growing use of the site of an old arsenal in northeast Ohio as a training ground for the military has brought economic promise to the surrounding communities.

The Woodlands at Robinson, the Portage County-owned nursing home in Ravenna, is in financial distress and will need further propping up from the county's already strapped general fund.

The closest mayoral race in Kent nearly 50 years came down to two votes Tuesday as independent Jerry Fiala beat Councilman Rick Hawksley.

A Kent man was arraigned Thursday on a charge that he allegedly called the Portage County Courthouse in Ravenna and falsely reported that he killed a 14-year-old girl.

John Kovacich and Lynn Whittlesey were elected to Atwater Township Trustee seats on Tuesday.

Democrats Kevin Poland and Mark Fankhauser were ahead in first returns in the Portage County Muncipal Judge races with 10 percent of the vote counted.

Michael Bartlett Jr. explains injuries to his face, ear and back in front of the house where the fire occurred.