Events Calendar
Most Read Stories
- 2 men charged in execution-style slayings last month in Akron
- Ohio cop, wife face charges after children left unsupervised in truck outside Florida bar; loaded gun within reach
- UA, marketing firm finalize sale of Rubber Bowl
- Cuyahoga Falls man, 70, gets 8 years in prison for 12th DUI
- Cuyahoga Falls High School closed by another bomb threat
- Insurance lawyer killed in Ohio building fall
- Copley-Fairlawn educator to head Ohio's largest teachers union
- Cleveland Indians notebook: Michael Bourn stews over assisted home run
- Photographer David Bryan Lile sees magic in old buildings
- Medical marijuana issue clears Ohio ballot board
- 2 men charged in execution-style slayings last month in Akron
- Five armed teens rob Akron restaurant
- UA officer involved in fatal shooting last week fired from job in 2009, then reinstated
- Victim identified in fatal Akron shooting
- Akron toddler drowns in river in southern Ohio
- Akron officials blast Mendenhall for emailing 1,400 people web links to stolen tax records
- Study: Poverty surges in Akron suburbs
- Youth minister dies in Ohio traffic crash on way to honeymoon
- Litigation mounting in Akron schools
- ODOT identifies highways where speed limit will jump to 70 mph
MORE IN NEWS...
- UA, marketing firm finalize sale of Rubber Bowl
- Browns third-string quarterback Brian Hoyer confident he has what it takes to become starter
- 2 men charged in execution-style slayings last month in Akron
- Photographer David Bryan Lile sees magic in old buildings
- Copley-Fairlawn educator to head Ohio's largest teachers union
- An Iraq veteran gets a mortgage-free home: An act of kindness in Stow
- High school seniors get advice, gifts
- Judge Oldfield facing sanctions over relationship with lawyer
- 18 indicted in alleged southern Ohio heroin ring
- Student who fell from University of Dayton dorm committed suicide
Summit County Congressional members try to get help for cities on demolition costs
Two lawmakers who represent part of Summit County are working together to try to help cities pay for the demolition of abandoned and vacant homes.
U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Cleveland, and Rep. Dave Joyce, R-Russell Township, introduced legislation Wednesday that would provide $4 billion for the local issuance of bonds to cover the cost of the demolition of run-down houses. U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo, is also a sponsor.
"Communities in the 11th Congressional district, including Cleveland and Akron, have been hit hard by the foreclosure crisis," Fudge, whose district includes a sliver of Summit County, said in a news release.
Fudge and retired U.S. Rep. Steve LaTourette, whom Joyce replaced in representing the 14th district that includes the northern part of Summit County, introduced this legislation in the last session, but weren't able to get it passed.
