Two men were taken to the burn unit of Akron Children's Hospital after a methamphetamine lab exploded Wednesday night. Stow police and firefighters were called to a duplex on Mac Drive just before 8 p.m. for an explosion. Police said a 29-year-old Stow men and a 28-year-old Middlefield man were in that side of the […]

A welfare check by police unveiled a working methamphetamine lab in the basement of a Stow home Thursday afternoon. Stow police say officers were called to a house on Burton Drive to check on two people who were believed to be using drugs.

A child’s suspicious smell at school led to a much bigger problem on Tuesday, the Summit County Sheriff’s Office reports. It happened at Lakeview School in Stow when school officials called police to inform them that a 12-year-old student had an “odor of chemicals,” a news release stated.

On February 19th, the Summit County Drug Unit received information that a Stow school had contacted the Stow Police Department regarding a 12 year old student that came to school with the odor of chemicals. There was a suspicion that methamphetamine was being manufactured in the child’s home.