Majority of homicide cases last year in Akron go unsolved
AKRON: Police have been unable to solve 17 out of the 32 homicides that have taken place in the city since January 2016, Beacon Journal news partner Newsnet5.com reports.Police say there are many...
View ArticleBarberton High School teacher placed on leave over reported comment
A teacher at Barberton High School has been placed on paid administrative leave over reports of an inappropriate comment to a student. Parents received a broadcast alert by phone on Tuesday afternoon...
View ArticleTrump’s immigration order pleases supporters, worries advocates for refugees...
Karyn Talbot-Russ spends every Wednesday afternoon in the basement of an empty Akron church, waiting to witness small miracles.“There have been so many opportunities to see God at work,” Talbot-Russ...
View ArticlePolice: Ohio girl shot brother after fight over video-game system
TOLEDO, OHIO: Police say a 14-year-old Ohio girl told them she fatally shot her 15-year-old brother after they fought over a video-game system and he repeatedly hit her in the face.A Lucas County...
View ArticleFirstEnergy bringing back popular appliance recycling program; customers can...
Akron-based FirstEnergy is bringing back its popular appliance recycling program.The parent company of Ohio Edison on Wednesday relaunched its program that will give customers a $50 Visa gift card for...
View ArticleAkron-area entrepreneur to appear on ABC’s ‘Shark Tank’ on Feb. 10; hopes...
An Akron-area man will appear Feb. 10 on national TV hoping “sharks” will find his startup fruit-snack business worth biting into.Evan Delahanty, the 31-year-old creator of Peaceful Fruits fruit...
View ArticleAkron-area voters to see plenty of tax issues on May ballot
Akron-area voters will see a slew of tax issues on the May 2 ballot.Wednesday was the 90-day deadline for communities to file issues with election boards, which still have to certify the issues.Here’s...
View ArticleVandalism with suspected urine at Northfield Center fire department could go...
Vandals who coated Northfield Center Township firefighting gear with a substance thought to be urine didn’t use “human substances,” investigators have determined.Summit County sheriff’s deputies...
View ArticleState vows to appeal lawsuit blocking its local hiring ban
A Cuyahoga County judge ruled against the state this week, saying Republican legislators overstepped their constitutional bounds and infringed on cities’ “home rule” when outlawing local hiring quotas...
View ArticleTrump pledges to end political limits on churches
WASHINGTON: Declaring that religious freedom is “under threat,” President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to repeal a rarely enforced IRS rule that says pastors who endorse candidates from the pulpit risk...
View ArticleCavaliers showing signs of progress on defense
CLEVELAND: Two of the sharpest criticisms General Manager David Griffin leveled against his team recently was its complacency and inability to establish a defensive identity. The two certainly seem to...
View ArticleAkron-Canton food bank staff revives fallen volunteer
The Akron-Canton Regional Food Bank has a team of first responders, a few employees that have practiced CPR on dummies but have never had to use the automated external defibrillator that hangs from a...
View ArticleLake High School ready for major expansion, renovation project
HARTVILLE: Lake High School is set to undergo a $33 million expansion and renovation project, the Canton Repository reports.The work, which begins Monday, is expected to take more than two years.Read...
View ArticleStow man killed in crash in Hudson
HUDSON: A Stow man was killed in a two-vehicle accident early Thursday morning on Seasons Road near the Stow border.Craig Fruth, 32, was pronounced dead at the scene. The other driver, a 25-year-old...
View ArticleAfghan refugee recalls days when “America had our back”
Jawid Ahmadzai, 27, risked his life to defy the Taliban. As a child born in Kabul after the Soviet-Afghan War of 1979-1989, Ahmadzai quietly disapproved when the mujahideen freedom fighters, a...
View ArticleIndians sign left-handed relief pitcher Boone Logan, per reports
The Indians continue to cross off needs on the roster in the wake of the Edwin Encarnacion mega-signing. On Thursday, the club added left-handed relief pitcher Boone Logan to the bullpen mix, according...
View ArticleClemson QB denies avoiding Browns; Jeff Garcia interviews to be quarterbacks...
Clemson national championship-winning quarterback Deshaun Watson rejected the notion Thursday that he skipped the Senior Bowl last week in Mobile, Ala., because he doesn’t want the Browns to draft him...
View ArticleMan jailed after Cleveland teen found dead in abandoned home
CLEVELAND: Authorities have arrested a man in connection with the death of a 14-year-old Cleveland girl who disappeared days before her body was found in an abandoned house.Cleveland police say the...
View ArticleLost songs of Holocaust survivors found in UA archives
Missing songs recorded more than 70 years ago from Holocaust survivors were recently discovered in the archives of the University of Akron. It’s the first time the lyrics of the notable songs were...
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...
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