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Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski is one of the first in Ohio to enter an agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce federal immigration law. Last year, Zuchowski garnered national attention after calling immigrants “human locusts” in a Facebook post. | Courtesy Portage County Sheriff's Office

Portage County sheriff burns local newspaper

Nikki Gasiewski, Reporter June 2, 2025

Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski shared a Facebook post to his personal page on May 9 with a stack of May 5 editions of The Portager burned in a fire pit. “It starts out like paper...but burns...

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Hiram, Ohio, considered for Netflix movie shoot

Lindsey Vlasic Reporter March 25, 2021

“Wheat Germ,” a Netflix original movie, is scheduled to start filming this summer and the village of Hiram, Ohio, is being considered for the set location. The movie is based on the novel “White...

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 24: U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper attends a meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda and U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on June 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. Duda, who faces a tight re-election contest in four days, is Trump's first world leader visit from overseas since the coronavirus pandemic began. (Photo by Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump fires Secretary of Defense Mark Esper

(CNN) -- President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Monday that he has fired Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and that Christopher Miller, who serves as director of the National Counterterrorism Center,...

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