SUMMIT COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - A House Bill designed to alert Ohioans when inmates escape, is one step closer to becoming law.

A man who pleaded guilty to a 2016 unsolved murder and who is also serving a lengthy prison sentence for attacking a deputy ...

Summit County Sheriff Kandy Fatheree is one step closer to her planned renovations for the county jail after Summit County was awarded nearly $3 million in state grants. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine ...

AKRON, Ohio (WJW) — A Summit County judge has sentenced a woman to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the ...

AKRON, Ohio — The mother of a Stow man who died by suicide in the Summit County Jail sued the county and corrections officers, saying that jail officials repeatedly ignored pleas for help as his ...

AKRON, Ohio — An inmate at the Summit County Jail has died after suffering a "medical emergency," Sheriff Kandy Fatheree's office confirmed Wednesday. Officials say Akron native David Brown, 52 ...

Harris pleaded guilty to rape and kidnapping in connection with the sexual assault of a Mahoning County Sheriff's deputy.