CANTON, Ohio (WJW) -- Canton residents should be wary of scammers impersonating "third-party electrical inspectors" in order to enter homes, warned Mayor William Sherer II. Residents on Monday, April 22, started reporting the visits to City Hall, saying the scammers posed as representatives of a third-party electrical company, and that a newly passed Ohio law allows them to enter ..read more

CANTON, Ohio (WJW) - Officials report, that a Canton man was getting ready to go fishing Sunday morning when he noticed the roof of an SUV in the middle of a pond. PHOTOS: Fiery crash lands near fast-food window The Canton Fire Department’s Water Rescue team was dispatched to the scene at Cook's Lagoon, off Mahoning Road NE, shortly before 9 a.m. on Sunday. Officials said the vehicle was unoccupied but was reported stolen from an address in Plain Township on Saturday. Health alert issued for ground beef over E. coli risk No one was injured. The incident remains under investigation ..read more

CANTON, Ohio (WJW) — An investigation is underway after a man reportedly died while in Canton police custody Thursday evening. Police were initially called to the 1700 block of Sherrick Road South East around 8:15 p.m. for reports of a single-car crash in the area. Upon arrival they saw an unoccupied vehicle and a power pole down in the road. ‘Devastated’: Family of 3 narrowly escapes arson in Cleveland, 2 pets dead With the help of witnesses, police were able to locate the driver of the vehicle who had headed to the Amvets Post down the road. Police said 53-year-old Frank Tyson of East Canton ..read more

CANTON, Ohio (WJW) -- Fire ripped through a Sherlock Place home early Thursday, causing $27,600 in damage. Canton firefighters arrived just before 3 a.m. to the home in the 1000 block of Sherlock Place Northeast to find gouts of flame shooting from the attic windows and roof of the two-and-a-half-story home ..read more

CANTON, Ohio (WJW) - Braylen Smallwood and Treizion Allen entered the Stark County courtroom of Judge Kristin Farmer, having pleaded guilty on Friday to multiple charges including aggravated murder. The charges arise from an incident on June 29 last year which police and the county prosecutor have described as an ambush on two detectives who were investigating an unrelated incident on 12th Street in Canton. Student brings fake gun to local middle school At least 14 shots were fired, one of them grazing one of the detectives. Both of them addressed Smallwood and Allen in a courtroom overflowin ..read more

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. NE Ohio casting company wants your dog for national ad! 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. "I'm not willing to say, hey, I think it's ..read more

CANTON, Ohio (WJW) – A man has died after a pedestrian-involved crash in Canton early Tuesday morning.  According to a press release from the Stark County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to a crash involving a pickup truck and a pedestrian on the 1300 block of 13th Street NW in Canton Township just after 1 a.m. OJ Simpson dead at 76: Family According to the release, Wilburn Martin, 65, was walking in the roadway on 13th St. when he was hit by the truck. He was pronounced dead at the scene.  The driver of the pick-up truck was not injured. Anyone with information about this crash ..read more

CANTON, Ohio (WJW) - A Canton woman told firefighters that one of her 37 cats was to blame for a kitchen fire sparked during a very rare total solar eclipse in Northeast Ohio. According to Division Chief Steve Henderson, firefighters were called out to the home in the 600 block of 225th Street NW at 2:45 p.m. on April 8. Just a half hour before the Moon perfectly aligned between the Sun and Earth to cast a shadow across parts of Northeast Ohio. Missed the eclipse? Here’s your next chance to see totality in Ohio When crews arrived, they said, they found a woman outside of the home that said one ..read more

***Learn more about federal taxes in the video above.*** CANTON, Ohio (WJW) - A Canton woman accused of operating an illegal gambling business pleaded guilty to defrauding the Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday. According to court records, Stephanie Condric managed and later co-owned an illegal gambling business, Gametastic, in Canton between 2014 and 2018. Listen: 911 call as goose goes after local customers Prosecutors say the business underpaid taxes by failing to report employees' cash wages to the IRS. Court records say Condric also filed false tax returns, hiding some of the personal ..read more

NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio (WJW) -- Agents with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation are investigating a shooting incident and crash that sent a Tuscarawas County sheriff’s deputy to the hospital and claimed the life of another person. A 911 caller just after 9 p.m. on Sunday, March 31, reported a vehicle had crashed into a house near the intersection of 8th Street Northeast and Fair Avenue, according to a news release from county Sheriff Orvis Campbell. Independence police: Man dies after he ‘fell down a cliff’ A deputy who arrived on scene saw a man jump into the passenger seat of a car, a ..read more