Wadsworth News

Transportation Director Mike Salamone reported that MCPT ridership was up 6.5 percent in 2011 and ridership on Brunswick Transit Alternative buses jumped almost 16 percent last year.

Wadsworth chef John Schulze, owner of Zydeco Bistro food truck and a Louisiana transplant, has teamed up with Karl Hiss of Barberton's Hiss Bakery to produce authentic king cakes.

Transportation Director Mike Salamone reported that MCPT ridership was up 6.5 percent in 2011 and ridership on Brunswick Transit Alternative buses jumped almost 16 percent last year.

FOWLER, Virginia "Marie," 97, formerly of Follansbee, W.Va., more recently of Wadsworth, Ohio, passed away Monday, Feb.

"He made people feel good about themselves by letting them know that they matter," said Sandra Campbell, his wife of 51 years.

New construction in 2011 dropped significantly from 2010 according to a year-end report prepared by the Medina County Building Department.

Graveside inurnment service for Mary Ellen Dunfee will be held Friday, February 3, 2012, 2 P.M., at the Western Reserve National Cemetery in Rittman.

Akron police have issued arrest warrants for four men accused of beating and pistol-whipping a man during a robbery Saturday.

Photo By Dan Starcher photos/www.buydrphotos.comVisitors packed into the June in January sale at Buchwalter Greenhouse Saturday for a chance to save money by pre-ordering spring outdoor items.

A teen was formally charged on Friday in connection with two slayings. Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien said that Anthony Wadsworth was charged with one count of aggravated robbery, one count of aggravated murder, three counts of murder with specification and two counts of having a weapon while under disability.

A Fairlawn police stopped a Dodge Ram truck on West Market street Jan. 22, after a computer check found the driver had a warrant through Wadsworth and was driving on a suspended license, police said.

A man was killed after troopers said his car was struck head-on by a wrong-way driver on Interstate 76 in Medina County.

An 18-year-old senior at Wadsworth High School has been arrested and charged with inducing panic in connection with last Wednesday's emailed bomb threat that prompted the evacuation of the school for much of the day.

A judge set bond on Friday for a teen accused of slaying two people last week. Anthony Wadsworth is charged with two counts of homicide and aggravated robbery.

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Investigators said that the man they believed to be responsible for a Tuesday morning slaying was charged in the shooting death of another man three days earlier.

Police in Medina County are searching for two people they said walked out of a Walmart store with a new video game system without paying.

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