A Portage County man has filed a federal lawsuit against the county's sheriff and two sheriff's office employees alleging retaliation over claims the man posted on Facebook. The lawsuit, filed by ...

PORTAGE COUNTY, Ohio — The Portage County Sheriff’s Office says deputies are seeing a rise in fentanyl mixed with Xylazine, a drug combination that can block the effects of Narcan. According to a ...

Will Lane of Newton Falls created the Facebook page "The Bad Bruce Exhibit" last April. He frequently posts about alleged corruption in Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski's office. A Portage ...

ALMOND − Officials are looking for a 6-year-old girl believed to be taken from her grandmother's home by her uncle on Sept. 11. Ruby R. Lehmann Ruby R. Lehmann was last seen at her grandmother's home ...

The Portage County Jail is much bigger than it looks from the road. A decade ago, there was room for only 220 inmates and the jail was often over capacity. In 2018, the county broke ground on a $21 ...

The Portage County Sheriff's Office has issued a scam alert concerning phone calls supposedly from the sheriff office's warrant division demanding payment from residents due to an outstanding warrant.

WASHIGTON, D.C. (WSAW) - When veterans went on the 54th Never Forgotten Honor Flight, there was a familiar face in the crowd. The trip included 97 veterans and 73 guardians, one of whom was Portage ...

PORTAGE COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - The Portage County Sheriff’s Office Portage Aggressive Crime Enforcement Unit (PACE) has recovered pounds of drugs, 4 guns and over $22,000 during investigations in the ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Amber Alert for 6-year-old Ruby R. Lehmann was canceled at 5:50 p.m. Sept. 13. The alert said the Almond girl was safe and her uncle had been taken into custody. Read more here.