Dave Nethers

PENINSULA, Ohio (WJW) — On a day when prolonged exposure to the bitter winter temperatures could be dangerous, many in Northeast Ohio were making the most of it. With school out for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Karuso Pindor, a student from Brecksville, said the first thing he thought of when he woke up Monday was to go snow skiing. “I ran to my parents bedroom, wake them up, make breakfast then came straight out here,” said Pindor, 15, who says he has been skiing since the age of 3. He w…

MANSFIELD, Ohio (WJW) -- At about 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 16, Mansfield police officers responded to Willis Avenue for alerts of gunfire there. “Our officers were actually dispatched to a ShotSpotter activation. ShotSpotter is a technology that we have here that alerts when shots fired from a firearm occur within the city limits,” said police Capt. Randy Carver. Police reports show that after they arrived, they were alerted by a resident of a 2-year-old pet Staffordshire Terrier named Roxy that had be…

During the April 8 total solar eclipse, more than 100 hospitals in Ohio will be in its expected path.

AVON LAKE, Ohio (WJW) — For the April 8 total solar eclipse, Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in Avon Lake is literally going to be hallowed ground. The church grounds are in the very center of the path of totality. “That’s what I have heard that the line literally goes through right here, so that’s pretty exciting,” said Pastor Laura Kuntz. “We expect a lot of people to be right here, the lake is right across the street, we are right on the line, so we expect a lot of people to be coming into…

NORWALK, Ohio (WJW) - After as many as three years of planning and preparations for a total solar eclipse, the event is now only one week away. Norwalk, a city of less than 18,000 residents, is considered the 16th best city in the nation to view the eclipse with a projected 3 minutes, 53.9 seconds of totality. Just days away, the expectation is that the entire county population could more than double. “Huron County has about 58,000 people plus or minus and I have been preparing for (100,000 to 1…

AKRON, Ohio -- Issue 2, passed by Ohio voters last November, authorizes the legal sale of recreational marijuana in Ohio with the state required to have applications for dispensaries ready by June 7. The expectation was the first legal sales of adult-use recreational marijuana would not start until at least September. Now, state lawmaker, Rep. Jamie Calendar of Concord, said publicly it could happen as soon as June. Klutch Cannabis, an Akron headquartered cultivator, says it will be ready to go.…

KENT, Ohio (WJW) -- Fifty-four years after national guardsmen fired into crowds of anti-war demonstrators, killing four students at Kent State University, the school on Saturday continued its tradition of honoring their memory. A ceremony on the University Commons area attended by Kent State administrators, survivors of the May 4, 1970 shootings, faculty and students from both the past and present. Also in attendance were groups of pro-Palestine demonstrators who say they see parallels between w…

With 29,000 square feet of production space, Klutch Cannabis in Akron is approved to go to 50,000.

A man arrested on charges of animal cruelty in Ashland County is going to prison.

Ohio recreational marijuana sales exceeding expectations