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Year In Review

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Hottest Topics in Fairlawn-Bath for 2012: Crime

Here's the third installment in a three-part series about the hottest topics in Fairlawn and Bath Township for 2012.

There's a lot happening in Fairlawn and Bath at any one time, but there are three topics that people buzzed about most this year: panhandling, Rothrock Road and crime. In this three-part series, we'll break down these three topics. Lastly is all the weird crime stories that happened this year. Check the bottom of the article to see the other topics. Crime Throughout the year, there have been some strange occurances at the Bath and Fairlawn police departments. Here are a few of our favorites: • A Bath Township woman heard someone ringing her doorbell in the early hours of the morning, but ignored it. When she woke up, she opened the front door and found a delicious mess. Story here. • If you're going to steal anything from the mall, it …

Surprise Reunion from a Copley Navy Dad, the Gift of a Kidney and More: Patch’s 2012 Year in Review

What do you think were some of the biggest stories from Patch’s Ohio sites in 2012? Tell us in the comments.

As the year ends, we're taking a look at some of the most-read local stories on Ohio’s Patch sites in 2012. The stories above are the ones that readers read and responded to the most. They had long discussions in the comments and shared them on Facebook and Twitter. Many of the stories are of loss in our Patch communities, but others, like the video of the Navy dad's homecoming on Fairlawn-Bath Patch or the story of an employee who gave his boss a kidney on Cleveland Heights Patch, inspire hope.  Click through the gallery above for a brief look at some of the most-read local Patch stories of 2012 or click on the headlines below for the  full stories. 

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