Stark County News

STARK COUNTY Sewer job filled CANTON: Stark County commissioners have hired Jim Jones as interim sanitary engineer.

The District 19 Ohio Public Works Commission received nearly double the money for the county's road and bridge improvements this year, due to Gov.

The money that Stark County government will collect from the half a percent sales tax next year will go into the general fund instead of toward a new 911 call center.

CANTON: The need to complete cardiac rehabilitation and the death of a colleague have contributed to a Stark County commissioner's decision to leave office Dec.

Needless to say, John Jennings' Friday the 13th wasn't a lucky one. Jennings, 24, of 78 W. Grant St., was arrested after threatening to publish a covertly-recorded video of a female victim on the Internet if she didn't have sex with him.

Stark County Common Pleas Judge John Haas on Thursday denied the request to send the trial to a different county but said the defense may ask again closer to Mammone's January trial date.

Stark County firefighters battled two grass fires yesterday in Perry and Marlboro townships.

Ohio state troopers said they arrested a 33-year-old man Tuesday following a pursuit through Stark County.

A 36-year-old Mentor man died Saturday evening when the motorcycle he was operating ran into the back of a parked pickup truck in North Canton.

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According to the Stark County Board of Elections' Web site, with 11.9 percent of precincts counted, Pat Fallot has received 65.23 percent of the vote and incumbent Cynthia Ann Kerchner has 34.77 percent of the vote.

LIMAVILLE, Ohio - Elections officials say poll workers made a mistake and provided the wrong ballot to all 42 people who voted Tuesday in a small town in northeast Ohio.

At around 40 percent, voter turnout was higher on Tuesday in Stark County than the fairly typical 35 percent for a non-presidential year predicted by Jeanette Mullane, director of Stark County Board of Elections.

Administrators in one Ohio school district will now have to answer to a high school senior elected to the school board.

With 3.5 percent of precincts counted, Mike Pauli and Diane Barker are leading the Lexington trustee race with 42.9 and 29.8 percent of the vote, respectively.

With 8.6 percent of precincts counted, the Stark County Children Services levy is passing with 64.59 percent of the vote.

The two women arrested in conjunction with the February death of a 20-year-old Alliance woman were both in Alliance Municipal Court Monday.

FAIRLAWN: A warrant has been issued for a 26-year-old Stark County man accused of selling a stolen guitar to a local store.

Issue 5 was placed on the Nov. 3 ballot for voters to decide whether or not the 0.5 percent sales tax increase imposed by the Stark County commissioners near the end of 2008 will be repealed -- but, the ballot language is worded in such a way that a vote of yes will vote to retain the tax increase.

A Malvern man has died after his car was broadsided in a two vehicle crash at an intersection in Stark County's Nimishillen Township.