Decision to cancel school not simple for local superintendents
Heavy lies the head that wears the crown, especially in a school district experiencing heavy snow. Canceling school is not an easy decision, especially when weather patterns can change so fast. One...
View ArticleKent State doctoral student from Iran stuck in Canada, unable to reunite with...
It’s been nearly two months since Iranian Morteza Shakeri, a resident of Stow, has seen his wife and child. Mansoureh Shasti and their 1-year-old daughter, Kiana, are stuck in Canada since President...
View ArticleHigh school scores, summaries and schedules — Jan. 30
REPORTING SCORESSchools are encouraged to report scores by email at bjsports@thebeaconjournal.com, by fax at 330-996-3629 or by phone at 330-996-3800. Please report scores from home and away games and...
View ArticleMRI of Cavaliers forward Kevin Love’s back reveals no structural damage
Kevin Love’s aching back has been given a clean bill of health. An MRI on Love’s back Monday revealed no structural damage, although the Cavaliers announced he will miss Wednesday’s home game against...
View ArticleMavericks knock off Cavs 104-97
DALLAS: Harrison Barnes scored 24 points and the last-place Dallas Mavericks knocked off a title contender for the second straight night, beating LeBron James and the Cavaliers 104-97 on Monday.Wesley...
View ArticleTrump fires Justice Dept. head over clash on refugee ban
WASHINGTON: In an extraordinary public showdown, President Donald Trump fired the acting attorney general of the United States after she publicly questioned the constitutionality of his refugee and...
View ArticleAs opposition outcry grows, Trump defends immigration order
WASHINGTON: Defiant in the face of an international backlash, President Donald Trump pressed into his second week in office defending his sweeping immigration ban. Protests persisted at major airports,...
View ArticleSuspect in Akron hit-and-run turns himself in
Beacon Journal staff reportAn Akron man accused in a hit-and-run accident that left a 72-year-old woman paralyzed earlier this month has turned himself in to Akron police, television station...
View ArticleProtesters in Akron oppose Trump’s travel ban on refugees, seven mostly...
About 125 people gathered outside the federal courthouse in Akron on Monday for a lunch-hour protest opposing President Donald Trump’s executive order on Friday that blocked entrance to the United...
View ArticleSummit County Council officially protests Trump’s refugee, immigration actions
Summit County Council doesn’t like President Donald Trump’s order that severely curtails how many refugees can enter the nation and also caps total annual immigration.Council on Monday voted 9-2 saying...
View ArticleAkron Dish: La Loma expanding to Valley; 35° Brix adds brunch items;...
I got calls and emails asking if I’d seen the storefront in Akron’s Merriman Valley announcing that a La Loma Mexican Restaurant was coming.People wanted to know if the place at 1682 Merriman Road, the...
View ArticleOut of balance, or how the governor’s budget plan misses the point
John Kasich has proposed another two-year budget plan that his fellow Republicans in charge of the legislature will push aside for the most part. Again, they are put off by the architecture. The...
View ArticleAkron-based Signet Jewelers announces senior leadership changes
Akron-based Signet Jewelers, the world’s largest retailer of diamonds, announced a series of senior-level changes on Tuesday.Signet, which operates Kay Jewelers, Jared the Galleria of Jewelry and...
View ArticleDix Communications newspapers sold to Gatehouse Media
Gatehouse Media, owner of the Canton Repository, Massillon Independent and Columbus Dispatch, announced Tuesday that it has purchased Dix Communications. The chain had been operated by the Dix family...
View ArticleSmucker Uncrustables demand growing; company plans to build plant in Colorado...
Who knew that crustless PB&J sandwiches have become a $200 million business for J.M. Smucker Co. of Orrville?The food company revealed Tuesday that to keep up with demand, it is building a second...
View ArticleSurviving victim loses appeal of release of records in triple-murder case;...
The surviving victim of a shooting rampage that left three others dead has lost her appeal of the release of her medical records and other personal information during a capital-murder trial last...
View ArticleCanton man, 69, charged with downloading child pornography
A 69-year-old Canton man has been charged in federal court with downloading 24 files of child pornography from the internet that were monitored by the FBI.Marshall Belden Jr., of Market Avenue South,...
View ArticleFBI arrests woman, boyfriend on charges that they enticed her teen daughter...
Canton police aided in the FBI arrest of a Mansfield woman charged alongside her boyfriend with allowing her teenage daughter to be photographed while engaging in sex acts.In addition, 41-year-old Amy...
View ArticleAkron man sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting death of 19-year-old...
A 22-year-old Akron man was sentenced to 10 years in prison this week for the November 2015 shooting death of a 19-year-old Akron man.Under an agreement with prosecutors, Jovonte A. Veal pleaded guilty...
View ArticleHigh school scores, summaries and schedules — Jan. 31
REPORTING SCORESSchools are encouraged to report scores by email at bjsports@thebeaconjournal.com, by fax at 330-996-3629 or by phone at 330-996-3800. Please report scores from home and away games and...
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