AKRON
Motorist stabbed
AKRON: An Akron woman is accused of stabbing a fellow motorist following a dispute Monday morning.
Kisha Jackson, 36, is charged with one count of felonious assault. She is accused of stabbing a man in the chest with a pair of scissors during a dispute in a North Main Street gas station parking lot. The man, 39, was treated for his injuries.
Police Capt. Dan Zampelli said Jackson and the man were driving in separate cars in the North Hill neighborhood when the dispute began about 10:30 a.m. Eventually, the drivers stopped their cars at the Circle K gas station in the 600 block of North Main Street.
The drivers continued to argue in the parking lot and at some point, Zampelli said, Jackson pulled out a pair of scissors and stabbed the man. She then fled the scene. Akron police later identified her and made the arrest.
Jackson was being held in the Summit County Jail under a $50,000 bond set in Akron Municipal Court.

Woman robs store
AKRON: A woman jumped the counter of an Akron convenience store Monday and took $20 bills from the register.
Akron police say the robbery happened about 6:30 p.m. inside the Convenient Food Mart at 199 Massillon Road. The robber has not been identified.
A 59-year-old female clerk told officers that she had just opened the cash register when the robber leaped over the counter and grabbed the money, which totaled $140, according to an Akron police report. The robber then fled the store.
The robber is described as a white woman in her 20s, standing about 5-foot-3 and weighing 120 pounds. She wore a white shirt with dark green stripes, tan shorts and black sandals. Her brown hair was pulled back with a white tie and she carried a red purse with red stripes.
Anyone with information on the robbery is asked to call Akron police at 330-375-2490.

Teen steals purse
AKRON: An 84-year-old Akron woman tried, but failed, to fend off a teenager who stole her purse as she got out of a van near her home Monday afternoon.
The woman was not injured in the attack that took place in a parking lot on Evergreen Avenue at about 2:15 p.m. The teen has not been identified.
The woman, who volunteers at Summa Health Systems, said she had just exited the vehicle when the boy ran up from behind and grabbed her purse. She told police she struggled to keep the purse, but the boy eventually gained control and fled.
The purse contained about $100, several credit cards and personal items.
Anyone with information is asked to call Akron police at 330-375-2490.

Worker shot twice
AKRON: An Akron convenience store worker was shot during a robbery attempt late Monday night.
The worker, 33, was being treated at Summa Akron City Hospital for gunshot wounds. He was expected to survive, police Capt. Dan Zampelli said Tuesday afternoon.
The victim was inside his SUV, parked outside the store at 1020 S. Arlington St., when a man approached and opened fire through the passenger-side window. The gunman then asked for money, according to an Akron police report.
The store worker was able to run away. A stranger aided him and drove him to the hospital, where he later gave an interview to police.
A detailed description of the gunman was not available.

Shot fired in bank
AKRON: Akron police are looking for two masked men who fired a shot while robbing a Buchholzer Boulevard bank Tuesday afternoon.
The men, armed with handguns, entered the PNC Bank branch about 3:30 p.m. One robber fired his gun toward the ceiling while the second jumped a counter and robbed a teller of an unspecified amount of cash, police Capt. Dan Zampelli said.
The men fled into woods behind the bank before leaving the area. There were no reports of injuries.
The men are described by police as black males in their 20s. They wore all-black clothing and paintball-style masks.
Anyone with information is asked to call Akron police at 330-375-2490.

Complaint filed
AKRON: A local advocate for the disabled filed federal complaints Tuesday against a planned apartment building in Akron, alleging it would violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Rose Juriga, executive director of the Tri-County Independent Living Center, filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Justice Department. She asked both agencies to review the complaints as soon as possible.
In the complaint, Juriga says a 60-unit apartment complex planned for south of Sorin Avenue and east of Vane Avenue in North Hill would segregate people with disabilities. The complex would be geared to the homeless, those with multiple disabilities and veterans.
Juriga said building smaller complexes intended for these populations would be acceptable but not one so large.
Mayor Don Plusquellic has proposed changing the location for the proposed apartments to in front of the Job Center at 1040 Tallmadge Ave.
Juriga, however, said moving the complex wouldn’t satisfy her concern unless a smaller facility were built.

Bath township
Levy attempt
BATH TWP.: Township trustees are asking voters to renew a 1.4-mill road levy in November.
The levy raises $745,270 a year for snow and ice removal, as well as for the construction, reconstruction, resurfacing and repair of the 60 miles of roadways.
The levy costs the owner of a $100,000 home about $43 a year.
Trustees have named two residents as second alternates to two of the township’s zoning boards.
Nancy Fay, a lifelong township resident and owner of The Bake Shop in Ghent and an active member and past president of the Bath Business Association, was named to the Zoning Commission.
Appointed to the Appearance Review Commission was Curtis Smock, an architect and owner of Creo Design Inc. in Bath.
Trustees also approved the renewal of two contracts.
The renewal of the workers compensation services contract with Frank Gates was approved at a cost of $6,250. According to Administrator Bill Snow, the township has saved more than $60,000 through the contact.
Trustees renewed the township insurance policies through Wichert Insurance at a cost of $68,920, which is a 3 percent decrease from last year.

JACKSON TOWNSHIP
IT dean named
JACKSON TWP.: Stark State College has named Cindy Close dean of information technologies at a yearly salary of $113,300.
Previously, she headed the tax-supported institution’s administrative office technology department.
Close joined Stark State in 1989 and has held several teaching jobs at the college. She has an associate degree from Stark State, a bachelor’s degree in business education from West Liberty State College and a master’s in technical education from the University of Akron.

STATE NEWS
Ex-judge sentenced
AKRON: A former judge convicted of lying to FBI agents about alleged political meddling in her Cleveland courtroom has been sentenced to 14 months in prison.
A federal judge in Akron sentenced former Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Bridget McCafferty on Tuesday.
Investigators say she lied in 2008 when denying that then-county Commissioner Jimmy Dimora and then-county Auditor Frank Russo meddled in cases. All three are Democrats.
Russo pleaded guilty to bribery and was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Dimora has pleaded not guilty to bribery and is awaiting trial.
McCafferty was defeated for re-election last fall following her indictment.
— Associated Press

Tree destroyed
MANSFIELD: A storm has destroyed half of an Ohio oak tree that played a key role near the end of The Shawshank Redemption.
The 1994 movie was filmed in and around an old prison in Mansfield, and the tree is where Morgan Freeman’s character finds money and a note left by Tim Robbins’ character.
Malabar Farm State Park manager Louis Andres told the News Journal of Mansfield the tree was hit Friday by straight-line winds that split it down its rotted middle and took out one side. The tree is on private farmland adjacent to the park.
Local convention and visitors bureau president Lee Tasseff calls the damage “tragic.” He says the oak is a sentimental stop for Shawshank fans drawn to the film’s locations.
— Associated Press