CLEVELAND — A child died after going missing in the water and drowning at Portage Lakes State Park, the fire chief for the city of New Franklin said. According to a press release from Chief Steve ...

A child drowned Friday afternoon in Portage Lakes State Park, according to a news release from the New Franklin Fire Department. Fire personnel and volunteers initiated a human chain to search the ...

SUMMIT COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - The Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the 6-year-old boy who drowned at Portage Lakes State Park Friday. Sebastian Johnson was at Portage Lakes for a swim ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW FRANKLIN, Ohio (WJW) – A child reported ...

The ongoing search on Tuesday, June 24, for a missing man at the beach of Portage Lakes State Park in New Franklin ended after state natural resources officers recovered his body around 6:45 p.m.

It's been a deadly week on the water across Northeast Ohio. Search efforts are ongoing in Cuyahoga Falls to find a father who went missing in a weekend tubing incident that left his 5-year-old son ...

NEW FRANKLIN, Ohio — A man is dead after drowning in the waters off Portage Lakes State Park Tuesday afternoon. According to the New Franklin Fire Department, whose members were the first at the scene ...

Community members and first responders worked together to try to locate a child who went missing in an Ohio lake. The New Franklin Fire Department received reports of a missing child at the Portage ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A man is pushing to make a local lake safer after two people drowned in Portage Lakes in just six days. As we approach the July 4th holiday, when Portages Lakes will be busier ...

NEW FRANKLIN, Ohio — A man drowned Tuesday afternoon while swimming at Portage Lakes State Park swim beach, authorities say. A news release from the New Franklin Fire Department Chief Steve Leslie ...

SUMMIT COUNTY, Ohio -- A child drowned Friday afternoon at Portage Lakes State Park, a news release from New Franklin fire Chief Steve Leslie says. First responders found the child about 2:30 p.m. in ...