Ravenna News

Ravenna High School was placed into "lockdown" for 20 minutes Friday morning while police apprehended three suspects who fled into the school.

A "speeding violation" caused Ravenna High School to be on lockdown Friday morning, but within an hour police had checked out the situation and released students back to their classrooms.

Two years and more than $10,000 later and a library is taking shape in Vietnam thanks to some enterprising students at Theodore Roosevelt High School .

Changing the status of Robinson Memorial Hospital in Ravenna from county-owned to not-for-profit would help the hospital remain a strong, locally controlled community hospital with the ability to create the new sources of income it needs, but cannot now undertake as a county-owned facility, Robinson Memorial president and CEO Steve Colecchi said ... (more)

Fire officials Friday afternoon uncovered what they believe to be a possible meth lab following a report of smoke coming from an apartment building in the 100 block of Spruce Street.

People hoping for a job with Rubbermaid started lining up hours before the official start of a job fair Friday in Ravenna.

The Coleman Youth Board - which includes four Stow-Munroe Falls High School students - is hosting a Mental Health Awareness Program and Dessert Night starting at 7 tonight at Stanton Middle School in Kent.

A Kent State University student photographs Ron Siwik and KSU professor Joe Murray after the duo landed at Dayton Wright Brothers Airport in Dayton Tuesday morning, the final leg of their 10-day, 88 county journey around Ohio.

If the applications are approved by the state, this year's Community Block Grant funds will go toward renovating a former county office for a hot meals program in Ravenna, improving Head Start facilities in Streetsboro, repairing basement walls in a township historical museum and rebuilding a street in Mantua.

Brittany K Hardway, the daughter of Marcus and Kay Hardway of Cheshire, Ohio, and Jerrod Lowell Sparling, son of Stephen and Terri Sparling, of Ravenna, Ohio, are announcing their engagement.

State Rep. Kathleen Clyde will host a town hall discussion at Reed Memorial Library in Ravenna on May 21 at p.m. Clyde will give an update on important state issues from the first half of 2012, and recap her work representing Portage County in Columbus.

An Acme employee called Stow Police because a woman concealed several steaks in her purse, clothing and pants and walked out of the grocery store.A The woman, a 43-year-old from Ravenna, did not pay for seven steaks.

The city of Ravenna is investing in the health of its residents with the Downtown Ravenna Farmers Market, which will open Thursday.

Mother's Day ended on a sour note for a woman arrested Sunday in Brimfield allegedly caught dealing drugs out of a hotel room with her children present.

The title Vermilion Vespers was an immediate tipoff that whatever the religious functions of a vespers service, this one would be anything but sanctimonious.

RAVENNA, Ohio - When you turn on the faucet, it's always there. Now you can see how water makes the journey to and from your home during an Open House at the two water facilities in Ravenna.

Akron man on trial for murder of Ravenna native Cuyahoga Falls News-Press The trial of Chad Allen Stephens, accused in the 2011 murder of Cuyahoga Falls man Kim Stevens Slayko II, began Monday in Summit County Common Pleas Court.

Ravenna Township was among the hardest hit by flash flooding in Northeast Ohio's thunderstorm downpour Monday night.

EDINBURG TWP.: Six people were injured when a sport-utility vehicle crashed into a tractor-trailer at an Interstate-76 rest area Wednesday in Portage County.