Kent News

Authorities identified Tuesday the Rootstown man who was beaten at his home last week and robbed of a coin collection.

Portage County's community hospital soon will be operating a new health center to bring more outpatient services to the western portion of the county.

Seth Stewart once took the stage with the Theodore Roosevelt High School choir, but since his graduation in 2004, he's moved on to much bigger and better stages - such as Madonna's and Broadway.

Kent Mayor John Fender presided over his last heritage fest. Fender is wrapping up his twelfth and final year as mayor.

This was artist Rolf Stoll's poster for the 1929 Le Bal Dynamique, held at Cleveland's Danceland Ballroom on Euclid Avenue.

Registration is underway for the Aug. 3-7 Crisis Intervention Team Education Collaboration training in Ravenna for school personnel.

A Ravenna man is facing four charges in two cities after he was involved in a pair of incidents Saturday and early Sunday.

As if chef David Russo weren't busy enough with Russo's Restaurant in Cuyahoga Falls, he has a new casual dining spot in Kent inside the Water Street Tavern.

The court ruled unanimously today to affirm the conviction and death sentence of James Trimble for the fatal shootings in Brimfield Township near Kent.

So you want to be a government contractor? All those billions of dollars issued by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 have a lot of small-business owners salivating.

This isn't a story about how to get rich and famous playing music. It's about learning that one can make a lasting contribution to music without ever topping the Billboard charts or getting on the cover of Rolling Stone.

Cecilia * Andrew * Judy * Diane * Rich * Cindy The following list will be updated as new listings come on the market in Portage County.

A Kent teacher accused of soliciting sex from a young girl chaperoned a weekend field trip with middle school students after his first arrest on importuning charges.

The Akron man suspected in hundreds of burglaries throughout the Portage County area pleaded not guilty to initial charges filed against him in Portage County Common Pleas Court.

More than 30,000 motorists will face orange detour signs Monday when part of S.R. 261 in Kent closes for bridge repairs.

Kent police arrested two men Monday accused of vandalizing the new Portage Hike and Bike Trail with a stolen bulldozer.

Angela Ridgel , an assistant professor of exercise science at Kent State University, observes research participant Don Mounts on a motorized, cyclical trainer in the Exercise Physiology Laboratory in Kent, Ohio.

A Brimfield man has pleaded guilty to charges he sold marijuana while working at the McDonald's drive-thru in Kent last year.

American Elite AllStars of Ohio this week will lead the first-ever cheerleading program at "The Next Level" 2009 Football Camp, June 17-20, at Kent State University's Dix Stadium in Kent, Ohio.

Martin Mehall could use the motto, ''Build it and they will come.'' He did, and they have.