CANTON, Ohio (WJW) — One Canton man is showing that it is possible to win a substantial amount of money on a scratch-off ticket. The man, who the Ohio Lottery is calling just Kenny, reportedly won $50,000 playing the state lottery’s VIP Millions scratch-off game. The ticket was recently purchased at Woodlawn Food Market in Canton.

The collaboration of effort in this case can’t be overstated. The ability to respond and recover these children abroad is an extremely difficult task.'

OHIO — The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) continues to ask for drivers to give them after two more snowplows got hit. ODOT’s Akron/Canton District 4 shared photos of two snowplows that got hit in northeast Ohio last week on social media. It brings the total to 34 ODOT crews that have been hit statewide in 2025.

A concerning number of dead geese have been discovered along the Tuscarawas River in Summit County, alarming residents and prompting an investigation by wildlife officials.

This Ohio golf course closed in 2023. The property has been in limbo since. But developers have big housing plans.

In 2023, the National Weather Service recorded a milder winter season in the Akron-Canton region, with 16 inches of snow for the calendar year, the lowest amount on record for the area. The winter season from 2023 to 2024 produced record-setting low snow amounts as well.

The Cincinnati-born Timken, who is now based in Canton, will replace the late Kirk Schuring, a Jackson Township Republican who died of cancer last November.

Several flights have been listed as canceled between Washington and Akron-Canton Airport in Green and Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State quarterback Tavien St. Clair has earned yet another national award. The freshman signal-caller was named the 2025 Marcus Dupree National High School Football Hall of Fame Player of the Year on Wednesday. The award was handed down by The National High School Football Hall of Fame Foundation Board of Governors.

Ohio State won the College Football Playoff on Monday. Memories came flooding back to 2014 national champs Devin Smith, Steve Miller and Doran Grant.

Canton Police worked with the U.S. Marshals Service and the U.S. State Department to recover the children. Investigators say they initially tracked the children to Denver, Colorado, then London, England, then to an island in the English Channel and finally to a remote fishing village in Iceland.

Former Ohio Republican Party Chair Jane Timken has been appointed to an open seat in the state Senate. The Northeast Ohio district has been without representation since Kirk Schuring, the three-decade-long serving legislator,