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KentStater

The independent news website of The Kent Stater & KSTV

KentStater

University Housing addresses safety concerns following natural gas odor on campus

Adriana Gasiewski, Digital producer November 20, 2024

A FlashAlert informed students around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday that Kent Campus Energy companies were working on natural gas lines, resulting in a gas odor inside Crawford Hall and near other campus halls. In...

Kent police make arrest in connection to Flash Vapes armed robbery

Leah Shepard, Managing Editor June 6, 2023

Kent police have arrested a suspect in connection to an armed robbery at Flash Vapes in Kent that occurred May 28.  The suspect, a 17-year-old male from Brimfield township, was charged with second-degree...

Our View: Is this the new normal?

KS Editors October 28, 2015

An advisory message flashed across phone screens in the early hours of Wednesday morning, alerting students that Kent State police were investigating the sound of gunshots near Centennial Court and Tri-Towers....

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‘Gunshot’ Flash ALERT turns out to be false alarm

Dana Miller October 28, 2015

Reports of a gunshot near Centennial Court E and Koonce Hall early Wednesday morning, prompting the Kent State Police Department to send out a Flash ALERT, turned out to be a truck backfiring.Officer Tricia...