Stark County News

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or not the 0.5 percent sales tax increase imposed by the Stark County commissioners near the end of 2008 will be repealed -- but, the ballot language is worded in such a way that a vote of yes will vote to retain the tax increase.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.

Stark County prosecutors have dropped an attempted aggravated murder charge against a Texas man accused of threatening to kill his wife.

Investigators say a skeleton found near Georgetown Street in April has been identified as the remains of a Canton woman.

Stark County's lawsuit against the city of Alliance is currently on hold, awaiting a ruling on appeal of a Sept.

A 33-year-old Canton man is dead and a 34-year-old Cuyahoga Falls man is in Stark County Jail following a one-car crash just before 2 a.m. Friday morning, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

Many Stark County school kids brought a consent form home to their parents yesterday as schools prepare to give swine flu shots to students.

Stark County filed a motion to stay enforcement of a Sept. 15 ruling that would assign them responsibility for inmates housed on contempt charges in its lawsuit with the City of Alliance.

Fred L. Williams, retired assistant director for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, and Dee M. Zeffiro-Krenisky, super-intendent of Huron County Developmental Disabilities, have been recommended by the search committee to the full board.

No foul play is suspected in the death of a 30-year-old man whose body was discovered Wednesday in Nimishillen Creek in Louisville.

A northeast Ohio man has admitted that he killed and beheaded his neighbor in a mobile home park.

A high-speed chase in Marlboro Township resulted in the arrest of an Atwater man early Friday morning, according to Marlboro Township Police Chief Ron Devies.