Wooster News

Twenty-six people arrested during and after a June 29 roundup of accused drug dealers and users by Medway Drug Enforcement Agency pleaded not guilty to drug charges Wednesday in Wayne County Common Pleas Court.

An Apple Creek teen died Tuesday night from injuries sustained in a crash on Carr Road, just north of Moreland Road.

Edgewood Middle School student Grayson Blythe gets some assistance from instructor Joyce Thornberry.

Let me start by qualifying my position... I grew up in the Wooster area until I was about 25 yrs old and then moved away in 1986 .

It was July 3, 1876 -- exactly 133 years ago today -- and the nation was absolutely agog.

Duncan Jones has worked hard to escape his father's thin white shadow. And yet once you delve into the content of his first feature film, Moon , it turns out to have some strikingly autobiographical elements.

It's back. The Wooster Arts and Crafts Extravaganza Nov. 20 & 21 at Wooster High School.

Traffickers of crack cocaine, marijuana, Oxycontin and heroin took a hit Monday night when law enforcement executed a raid in Wooster, Orrville and surrounding areas, culminating a nine-month investigation.

A view down a long first-floor corridor in Babcock Hall, built in 1939, shows workmen finishing up renovations.

Deputy Gary Kronk of the Madison County Sheriffa s Office talks with Wayne County dairy farmer Kurt Steiner during a training seminar designed to prepare law enforcement officers and humane society workers for investigating claims of animal cruelty.

About 30 contractors from as far away as South Carolina and New York were in town Monday for the Freedlander's Department Store demolition pre-bid meeting, which city officials hope to have demolished by December.

While some speculate the downturn in the economy isn't quite over, two local companies are reporting good news.

When Jim Carmichael served in the Ohio House of Representatives, he formed a friendship with a young, freshman representative.

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

Unable to find any evidence that recipients of a liquor permit transfer for a yet-to-be opened restaurant were unfit to operate an alcohol-serving establishment, City Council chose not to stand in the way of the business moving forward.

After making its official pitch to be named an All-America City in Tampa, Fla., Friday morning, a panel of judges decided that Wooster would not be among 2009's 10 winners at an awards ceremony last evening.

Palmer Shonk discovered an affinity for music at an early age. But he wasn't interested in being a rock star.

A yet-to-be opened eatery in downtown Wooster opposed by one neighboring businessman will have its request for a liquor permit transfer come before City Council on Monday.

The city's annual tax budget will be up for review when council convenes Monday.

The board is on call about three potentially large expenses in the district. They are areas with "big red numbers written all over them," Wooster Superintendent Michael Tefs said, adding, "The board needs to know what we're watching." But, while these areas technically could have significant financial ramifications, he said, he is not expecting any ...