Portage County

The agreement means a new home in Kent for Bio-Med Science Academy's kindergarten-through-sixth-grade program.

The Portage County District Library is partnering with the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank to offer pop-up food pantries at its Garrettsville branch. More than 100 people showed up for the latest one, Friday morning.

The new pop-up sites in Garrettsville and Randolph Township are focuses on residents farther from urban centers who need food assistance.

Cleary was one of nine people wounded on May 4, 1970, when National Guardsmen opened fire on anti-war protesters at Kent State University. Four others were killed.

The League of Women Voters of Ohio and Kent held a community conversation Thursday night at the Kent United Methodist Church.

Ohio's new higher education bill, Senate Bill 1, requires universities to submit lists of programs granting five or less degrees annually, to be ended in a bid to make colleges more efficient. Kent State University and Cuyahoga Community College both submitted several dozen programs each.

Nelson-Kennedy Ledges State Park, known for its natural formations like Devil’s Icebox, the Narrows and Goldhunter’s Cave, welcomed the addition of the glass walkway in May.

More than 200 academics and students gathered in Rootstown on Thursday and Friday to discuss groundbreaking research in hearing science. But attendees couldn't avoid the foreboding uncertainties about the future of their research.

Will Lane of Newton Falls sued Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski, two captains with the department and the county for retaliation over a Facebook page Lane created last April, the suit alleges.

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