Stark County News

Stark County authorities need help finding an 82-year-old Homeworth man with Alzheimer's Disease who has been missing since Wednesday evening.

According to Detective Lt. John Jenkins, Richard Kibler, 38, of 148 Selby St., was discovered deceased in his station wagon shortly after 10:15 a.m. Wednesday, after dispatchers received a call about a medical emergency.

Two of the three defendants arrested in regard to alleged drug trafficking in downtown Alliance were no-billed by the Stark County grand jury, according to a press release issued by Prosecutor John Ferrero.

The change in procedure will drastically improve the turnaround time of forensic DNA testing in nonviolent cases by moving it from a 300- to 420-day turnaround at the county crime lab to 19.75 days at BCI, out of Richfield.

Alliance resident Barbara Armitage was honored Wednesday with the Junior League of Stark County's President's Award at the 66th annual Women of the Year luncheon at the Kent State Stark campus Already a subscriber to print? You have online access, too... at no additional expense! Call 821-1200 to set up an account.

Looking out for firefighters on the scene of big events. That's the mission for the Fire Department Rehab Unit Inc.

The nostalgia. The memories. The original brick remnants. The way the road can work as a time machine into the past.

In an ordinary world, it would be no big deal to slip through a border of bushy trees to a trail on the other side.

In the 12 months since Ohio opened its first casino, Akron-Canton region has received nearly $15 million in new tax revenue.

A former Alliance Police Department officer accused of sex crimes appeared before Judge Jean Madden in Alliance Municipal Court on Friday.

Congratulations to Gwen Dunagan and Phyllis Phillips, two Alliance residents recently recognized for impeccable service and leadership by the Stark County Black Caucus.

Recently, a couple of parents asked me what they could do to get their daughter to listen and clean up after herself.

The 0.1-mill renewal levy for Stark County's 911 system that voters approved at the polls on Tuesday was already expired, meaning the $616,840 the levy generates each year would have stopped being collected at the end of this year.

Did you know the Stark County District Library is More Than Books? The library recently launched a new, upgraded events calendar .

Two Alliance, Ohio, community leaders awarded, state Sen. Nina Turner speaks out about the importance of voting during Stark County Black Caucus annual Tribute to African-Americans in Politics on May 5, 2013 Already a subscriber to print? You have online access, too... at no additional expense! Call 821-1200 to set up an account.

Voters in the North Canton school district today will decide a 2.4-mill permanent improvement levy .

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Facing the task of cutting 142 children from the Head Start program in Colorado Springs this fall, the teachers and administrators came up with a creative response: Have the children decorate empty chairs, then sell them for $500 apiece to stave off the worst of the across-the-board federal cuts heading their way.

Arc of Stark County will hold its second annual Rhythm & Brews beer festival from 6 to 10 p.m. June 20 at the Canton Cultural Center for the Arts.

Judge V. Lee Sinclair dismissed the repeat OVI specification but decided that Robert E. Mangano, 37, whose last known address was 1035 Homestead Ave., will spend two years in prison and pay $1,350 in fines plus costs for operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse or a combination of them.