Dave Nethers

General Assignment Reporter at WJW-TV (Cleveland, OH)

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Watch: Superheroes swing by Akron Children’s Hospital to visit young patients

3 days ago | fox8.com | Dave Nethers

AKRON, Ohio (WJW) – It is in a superhero’s job description to go over and above to do the right thing. At Akron Children’s Hospital on Tuesday, some familiar characters did just that, making their entrance by rappelling six stories from the roof of the hospital and entertaining kids through the windows on their way down.
‘Allowing us to give her love’: Dog shot and killed in Medina

4 days ago | fox8.com | Dave Nethers

MEDINA, Ohio (WJW) — David and Deb Mast were in the living room of their Medina home early Friday afternoon when Deb said something outside caught her attention as it went around the side of their house. “I just saw just the tail of it and I thought it was the neighbor’s dog,” she told Fox 8. Her husband went to investigate“It was kind of walking aimlessly along the back fence there at the back of our property and just limping along,” David said.
Former investigator: Man convicted of killing ex-wife, an Akron doctor, ‘doesn’t deserve to be out’

1 week ago | fox8.com | Dave Nethers

AKRON, Ohio (WJW) – It is a crime that has gripped many in this community for nearly three decades — the murder of Dr. Margo Prade and the conviction of her ex-husband for the crime to which he has steadfastly proclaimed his innocence. Prade was convicted in 1998 during a trial that was one of the most publicized and controversial in Akron. Prade was shot to death in her minivan outside of her office. A bite mark attributed to her killer was found on her arm.
‘Last wish come true’: Bringing the zoo to a veteran in Massillon

1 week ago | fox8.com | Dave Nethers

MASSILLON, Ohio (WJW) — For 22 years, Jim Nash served in the United States Navy as a corpsman and senior chief, including during the Gulf War. “He loves his time in the service he loves talking about the service anything everything he wants to be remembered for his time in the navy,” said his daughter Cindy Nash. Aboard the USS Guam, he participated in Operation Eastern Exit, the evacuation of more than 280 people from the United States Embassy in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1981.
Sleep training for teens becomes local high school class

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Dave Nethers

(WJW) – Ask any parent of a newborn how important it is to get their infant on a regular sleep schedule, and they’ll likely have a lot to say. “It’s rough, but it’s very important. It’s vital to get a routine,” said Kelynn Heckman, a nursing student at the University of Akron and mother of a two-year-old. “They say when the baby sleeps, you sleep — which is true.”Newborns are not born with a circadian rhythm, the internal clock that helps regulate sleep and wake cycles.
Sleep training for teens becomes local high school class

2 weeks ago | fox8.com | Dave Nethers

(WJW)– Ask any parent of a newborn how important it is to get their infant on a regular sleep schedule, and they’ll likely have a lot to say. “It’s rough, but it’s very important. It’s vital to get a routine,” said Kelynn Heckman, a nursing student at the University of Akron and mother of a two-year-old. “They say when the baby sleeps, you sleep — which is true.”Newborns are not born with a circadian rhythm, the internal clock that helps regulate sleep and wake cycles.
40 Years Later: Survivors remember 1985 tornado outbreak that devastated Niles

2 weeks ago | wkbn.com | Dave Nethers

NILES, Ohio (WJW) — On May 31, 1985, more than 40 confirmed tornadoes tore through parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and into Canada, killing 90 people and injuring at least 1,000. The outbreak remains the largest to ever strike the region. Among the twisters, the most powerful touched down near the Ravenna Arsenal in Portage County, Ohio, carving a 41-mile path into Wheatland, Pennsylvania.
40 Years Later: Survivors remember 1985 tornado outbreak that devastated Niles

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Dave Nethers

NILES, Ohio (WJW) — On May 31, 1985, more than 40 confirmed tornadoes tore through parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and into Canada, killing 90 people and injuring at least 1,000. The outbreak remains the largest to ever strike the region. Among the twisters, the most powerful touched down near the Ravenna Arsenal in Portage County, Ohio, carving a 41-mile path into Wheatland, Pennsylvania.
40 Years Later: Survivors remember 1985 tornado outbreak that devastated Niles

2 weeks ago | fox8.com | Dave Nethers

NILES, Ohio (WJW) — On May 31, 1985, more than 40 confirmed tornadoes tore through parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and into Canada, killing 90 people and injuring at least 1,000. The outbreak remains the largest to ever strike the region. Among the twisters, the most powerful touched down near the Ravenna Arsenal in Portage County, Ohio, carving a 41-mile path into Wheatland, Pennsylvania.
‘We solved my mother’s murder’: Mansfield doctor up for parole; son speaks out

3 weeks ago | fox8.com | Dave Nethers

MANSFIELD, Ohio (WJW) – New Year’s Eve 1989, Collier Landry, 11, was in his bed at 3:18 a.m. when he said he heard two loud thuds in the house. “I can hear my father, voice really low, like murmuring, and I’m laying in my bed, and I always sleep with my door open as a kid, and I’m laying in my bed, and I’m just kind of frozen,” he told Fox 8 News. “Everything inside me at that moment is telling me, don’t look up.”Collier Landry“I’m trying to think of, like, what to do. Do I get up?