MONTVILLE TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WOIO) – Police in Medina County provided new details to a sexual assault attempt and SWAT standoff that turned deadly early Sunday morning. The investigation started just after midnight Sunday morning when an unclothed 17-year-old girl approached an employee in the McDonald’s parking lot on Wooster Pike. The teen girl told the […]

MEDINA, Ohio– We now know the location for Mushroom Rally coming to Northeast Ohio later this summer. The go-kart race inspired by “Mario Kart” will be held at High Voltage Karting on Foundry Street in Medina on Sept. 14 and Sept. 15. Tickets are $55 per person and available online here. Costumes are provided or you […]

  Geauga County in northeast Ohio and Scioto County in the southern part of the state are at opposite ends of new state health rankings. The annual rankings from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute released Wednesday say Geauga is Ohio’s healthiest county based on factors such as longevity, […]

  MEDINA, Ohio – Business owner Amy Douglass came up with a quick list of topics that she hopes Governor John Kasich addresses during his State of the State address Monday night at the Performing Arts Center in Medina. Douglass, who owns The Interior Design Studio and JK Gift Shop, said she would like Kasich […]

  CLEVELAND – For the first time in Ohio history, ODOT is going out in the market place to find a new contract for salt supply mid-winter to get them through the remainder of what has been a messier than normal season thus far.   HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? Each summer, ODOT, in conjunction with […]

  MEDINA, Ohio – UPDATE: At around 5:30 p.m., Avon posted on the city website that the city was at a “critical point” in the water use and residents should discontinue any water use until further notice. Avon’s mayor’s office told NewsChannel5 that the city could run out of water by tonight. — The polar vortex […]

MEDINA, Ohio – Medina residents, angry over spending by school school board members and benefits in the contract of Superintendent Randy Stepp, will protest outside of the high School at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. The protest will take place a half hour before a scheduled board meeting. Mark Kuhar, who created Medina City Schools Outrage Page […]

MEDINA, Ohio – Another year, another record for the Meadows Turkey Bowl in Medina. The annual Thanksgiving football game in the backyard of Mike Meadows’ home on Hood Road generated $125,000 in donations. The game has been played for 22 years. It has served as a fundraiser for eight years. The previous record for fundraising […]

BRUNSWICK, Ohio – A Medina man turned himself in after police say he hit a car and said he was a Brunswick police officer. The hit-skip happened Saturday night on Pearl Road near Oxford in Brunswick. Kathy Paintiff said she was sideswiped by a man claiming to be an officer with the Brunswick Police Department. […]

MEDINA COUNTY, OH (WOIO) – The Ohio Department of Health Zoonotic Disease Program in Columbus reported on August 22, 2011, that adult mosquitoes collected by the Medina County Health Department on August 11, 2011, from the Letha House County Park in Chatham Township tested positive for West Nile Virus. Test results are not immediately known as […]