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Trillium Family Solutions is gradually winding down and looking to transfer services to other agencies.

Today marks the start of Sunshine Week, an initiative to promote the importance of freedom of information and open government.

Twenty-eight former Canton city employees want their jobs back a year after being dismissed in the investigation into retirement and rehiring practices.

We asked, you answered. What is the best pizza in Stark County? Apparently, it depends on who you ask.

One foot was on a rung of a ladder under the basket at Memorial Civic Center. Timken boys basketball coach Rick Hairston had a pair of scissors in his left hand and the pride of an entire high school on his shoulders.

The heat was on hours before the battle between 21-win Federal League neighbors who had split regular-season battles. It stayed on. All night. Harrison Blackledge’s short shot in the closing seconds gave North Canton Hoover a 51-49 win over Lake that will go down as one of the better games in Federal League history, certainly, and local boys basketball tournament history, arguably.

Some oil and gas companies are busy drilling wells in the Utica shale and others are opting to sell their leases to the highest bidder.
 

Pope Benedict VXI’s resignation not only was historic, it could change how future pontiffs serve, according to Bishop George V. Murry, head of the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown, which includes Stark and five other counties.

A Massillon man pleaded not guilty Friday morning to charges of murder and a felony count of child endangeringin the 2011 death of a two-year-old boy.

More than four years after hundreds of residents filed a lawsuit against the Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility in Pike Township, claiming they had suffered from noxious landfill odors, the attorneys in the case have negotiated a confidential settlement.