Stark County News

ALLIANCE: A four-month investigation by the Alliance Police Department resulted in a drug bust Wednesday that netted seven arrests, cash, drugs and drug paraphernalia.

It's a long way from the Great Wall of China to Jackson High School in Stark County.

Despite sitting behind the wheel during a routine traffic stop, an Alliance man assured city police that he wasn't driving.

Timothy Escola's days as Perry Township Police Chief are officially over. The veteran police officer with 36 years experience resigned abruptly on Monday.

An area wedding photographer entered no plea during her arraignment on a grand theft charge Wednesday afternoon.

Nancy House from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles' fraud investigation department testifies during a preliminary hearing for Courtesy Auto World in Alliance Municipal Court.

A Perry Township man who was shot last week in Canton has died from his injuries.

The sister of two developmentally disabled women called a recent move by Stark County to hike day costs for some of its workshops "discriminatory." Linda Whitman addressed county commissioners during their regular meeting Wednesday in opposition to a new policy that would hike the workshop fee for those living in residential facilities from $52 to ...

A high-speed chase early Saturday morning has landed a Wooster man in the Wayne County Jail.

Jylinn Early was just thirsty when he ventured to the kitchen for a drink and found a stranger standing next to the refrigerator.

The things that pollute our drinking water are not always as obvious as the raw sewage recently discovered in Marlboro Township that is leaking into Alliance's water source.

Posted By: Kim Wendel Updated: 6/19/2009 7:48:25 PM Posted: 6/19/2009 7:46:18 PM CANTON -- James Mammone III, a man who police say confessed to killing his two young children and his former mother-in-law, is complaining about the food he's getting in jail.

Call it a case of mistaken identity. Nimishillen Township trustee Lisa Shafer barely recognized the plans for a new countywide dispatching system when she attended a Stark Council of Governments meeting earlier this week.

CANTON, Ohio - The Girl Scout organization serving northeast Ohio is scaling back its camping properties.

FBI agents and police are investigating two bank robberies that took place in Stark County on Thursday.

Stark residents may soon see one centralized 911 dispatch center in use across the county that will enable dispatchers to see the location of each call and immediately send the closest emergency vehicle -- whether it is a police cruiser, ambulance or fire truck.

Two separate lawsuits involving alleged dog attacks on Alliance residents were filed in the Stark County Court of Common Pleas on Friday.

The fleeing suspect accused in a triple murder outside a Canton bar is back in Ohio.

ALLIANCE: A Stark County man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for stealing underwear from more than 20 women in a series of home break-ins going back to 2006.

Posted by Donna J. Miller/Plain Dealer Reporter June 09, 2009 07:03AM Kenneth Painter Marshals and Stark, Franklin and Cuyahoga county deputies are looking for fugitive sexual offender Kenneth Painter, who is charged with multiple crimes.