Grade school for kids with learning disabilities to open this year
For the past 62 years, the Julie Billiart School in Lyndhurst has served grade-school kids with learning differences from 38 school districts in Cuyahoga County and beyond.Now, for the first time, the...
View ArticleUniversity of Akron football: Zips hope 2017 recruiting class will help team...
After a disappointing season, on Wednesday the University of Akron football team once again looks to the future.It’s National Signing Day.After a 2015 season that culminated with the Zips winning their...
View ArticleNo longer taking ‘the high road,’ LeBron fires back at Charles Barkley; Cavs...
After the Golden State Warriors’ Klay Thompson fired subtle jabs at LeBron James during last season’s NBA Finals, calling the NBA “a man’s league” and insinuating that James had his feelings hurt by...
View ArticleUniversity trustees shocked at pill mill charges against ex-trustee
ATHENS, OHIO: Ohio University trustees say they’re shocked and disappointed at news that a doctor and former university trustee pleaded guilty to charges of running a pill mill and evading $3.5 million...
View ArticleImmigration in Ohio; local poll on Trump’s order
During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s tough talk on immigration and terrorism resonated best in rural Ohio and blue-collar suburbs.In September, the Your Vote Ohio collaborative effort of...
View ArticleAkron-area leaders pen open letter welcoming immigrants
Seventeen Akron-area leaders — ranging from Democratic politicians to businessmen to religious leaders — have penned an open letter welcoming immigrants to the community.The letter, released Tuesday...
View ArticlePortions of South Portage Path, West Exchange Street closing in Akron
AKRON: The city is closing portions of South Portage Path and West Exchange Street for about three weeks starting Wednesday for sanitary sewer work.The southbound side of South Portage between Crosby...
View ArticleGreen school board member shares her personal criticisms of President Trump’s...
GREEN: A Green school board member used her comment time at Monday night’s meeting to publicly criticize President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education as “100 percent wholly unqualified...
View ArticleAkron man guilty of raping 3 children, giving them a sexually transmitted...
An Akron man was found guilty by a jury on Wednesday of raping his live-in girlfriend’s three daughters at the close of 2015.Delacey Walters, 27, was convicted of nine counts of raping a child under...
View ArticleSummit County Internal Audit to examine Oriana House
Summit County Internal Audit agreed Wednesday to conduct a financial audit of Oriana House, the Akron-based drug treatment and jail services provider that is facing increased scrutiny.The city of...
View ArticleTwo men shot in unrelated incidents within hours in Akron
Akron police were investigation two unrelated shootings that occurred within hours of each other late Tuesday and early Wednesday.Shortly before midnight Tuesday, a 20-year-old man was shot in the 2300...
View ArticleAkron man pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter for wife’s shooting death
The night before an Akron man shot his wife, police responded to a call at the couple’s Goodyear Heights home.Phillip Battle and his wife, Anita Heard, said they thought they heard voices upstairs....
View ArticleWadsworth may be getting its hospital back in legal settlement with Summa
A full-service community hospital may be returning to Wadsworth.Summa Health System and the Wadsworth-Rittman Area Joint Township Hospital District Wednesday released a joint statement announcing a...
View ArticleLeBron James receives NAACP’s Jackie Robinson Sports Award, urges other...
LeBron James’ trophy shelf is about to get a bit more crowded.The Akron native is the recipient of the NAACP’s Jackie Robinson Sports Award.The award is presented for “high achievement in athletics and...
View ArticleHigh school scores, summaries and schedules — Feb. 1
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 ArticleCavaliers notebook: LeBron James’ former teammate, former rival receive...
Independence: One of LeBron James’ former teammates and a former nemesis were part of the Cavaliers’ free-agent workout Wednesday. James said he’ll take anyone who can help him win games right now....
View ArticleUniversity of Akron football: East’s Jemarulin Suggs headlines Zips’...
The University of Akron football program’s signing class of 2017 will have more of a local flavor than usual.With East running back Jemarulin Suggs, the Beacon Journal’s 2016 Player of the Year, at the...
View ArticleCavaliers 125, Timberwolves 97: Irving, LeBron lead blowout win over...
CLEVELAND: Kyrie Irving passed for a career-high 14 assists to go with his 14 points and LeBron James had 27 points and 12 assists in the Cavs’ 125-97 victory Wednesday over the Minnesota Timberwolves....
View ArticleMarla Ridenour: Early exodus to NFL increases pressure on Ohio State to find...
COLUMBUS: Under coach Urban Meyer, the Ohio State football program has become more of a farm team for the NFL than ever before.This year, a Football Bowl Subdivision-high six players left early for the...
View ArticleCanton man killed in Route 30 crash
CANTON: A 32-year-old Canton man who was driving the wrong way on U.S. Route 30 early Thursday was killed in a head-on collision with a truck just east of Harrison Avenue.Alcohol is suspected in the...
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