Wadsworth man wins national grocery bagging competition
Brady Long of Wadsworth defeated 22 competitors from across the nation to claim a grand prize of $10,000 at the National Grocers Association (NGA) Best Bagger Championship in Las Vegas.Long, 23 and a...
View ArticleYahoo warns users of malicious activity
LONDON: Yahoo is warning users of potentially malicious activity on their accounts between 2015 and 2016, the latest development in the internet company’s investigation of a mega-breach that exposed 1...
View ArticleBob Dyer: Ugly talk the new norm
One week ago, I wrote a column that was headlined, “Please tone it down!”It centered on the small-time Michigan politician who posted comments on his Twitter and Facebook accounts saying the problem of...
View ArticleMan charged with setting fire that caused West Akron house explosion
A man who lived at a house that exploded in West Akron last week has been charged with purposefully setting the fire.Investigators said they believe Rodney Hylton, 49, set the fire at his home in an...
View ArticleAkron Children’s Hospital commits more than $250,000 to North High School...
The Akron Public Schools and Akron Children’s Hospital are expanding their partnership to further develop North High School’s Academy of Health and Human Services. Superintendent David James announced...
View ArticleSumma violations include inadequate emergency room teaching experience,...
Summa Health System’s new emergency room physician group doesn’t have enough teaching experience or academic credentials to meet national requirements to train doctors.Hospital insiders say these and...
View ArticleUniversity of Akron to sell former president’s residence
The University of Akron board of trustees wants to sell the university-owned residence that housed two of its previous presidents.At Wednesday’s board of trustees meeting, under new business, the board...
View ArticleNew names for Akron neighborhoods stir history
Surrounded by the unfamiliar names of Jewish families, Jan Davis walked through a 110-year-old cemetery for the first time in her life in the West Akron neighborhood where she grew up.She was there to...
View ArticleMan dies after getting shot and crashing vehicle in Akron
AKRON: A man died after getting shot during a fight and crashing a vehicle into a pole in Akron, Beacon Journal news partner newsnet5.com reports. According to Akron police, a large fight broke out in...
View ArticleThings to Do, Feb. 16: ‘Rogue One’ at Science Center; Mozart and Tchaikovsky;...
See a showing of ‘Rogue One’What better place to see Rogue One: A Star Wars Story than at Great Lakes Science Center? The space epic opens there at 6 p.m. for a limited run through March 18. The...
View ArticleCavaliers notebook: Kevin Love’s left knee had been issue for three games
Editor’s note: Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue addressed the issue of Kevin Love’s knee injury again after Wednesday night’s victory over the Indiana Pacers. Lue said he had misunderstood a question about...
View ArticleGirls basketball / Revere tops Barberton 37-27 to share Suburban League...
Richfield: Revere has company atop the Suburban League American Conference this year.Following a season in which Revere won the SLAC outright title, the Minutemen concluded this season’s league slate...
View ArticleCavaliers 113, Pacers 104: Kyle Korver hits 2,000th career 3-pointer, shoots...
CLEVELAND: Kyle Korver ascended into rare air Wednesday night. The Indiana Pacers won’t mind if he stays there.Korver scored 22 points off the bench Wednesday and became the seventh player in NBA...
View ArticleHigh school scores, summaries and schedules — Feb. 15
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 Article‘Blind Spot’ exhibit makes art accessible to visually impaired — and everyone...
Massillon: An exhibit opening this weekend at the Massillon Museum is intended to make art accessible to people with visual impairments.But it does more than that.It makes art accessible to...
View ArticleSumma at another crossroad
Listen to the back and forth between Summa Health and Summit Emergency Associates as their relationship of three decades fell apart at the end of last year, and there was a steady consensus: The...
View ArticleStow mayor receives backlash over husband’s vulgar anti-Trump tweets
Stow Mayor Sara Kline took to Facebook on Thursday night to defend her husband, Robert Kline, after he tweeted a string of vulgarities to President Donald Trump that caused an uproar on social media.“I...
View ArticleOhio Supreme Court suspends Barberton attorney for two years
COLUMBUS: A Barberton attorney has been suspended from practicing law for two years because of ethical violations, the Ohio Supreme Court said Thursday.The violations against Holly L. Bednarski...
View ArticleMan shot, killed by Hudson police officer had marijuana in his system
The unarmed Case Western Reserve University law student who was shot and killed by a Hudson police officer following a crash on the Ohio Turnpike in December had marijuana in his system, according to...
View ArticleOhio Highway Patrol: Fatal traffic crashes rise in Summit County
Summit County saw a spike in fatal traffic crashes last year.Forty people were killed in accidents, compared to 25 in the previous year — a 52 percent jump, the Ohio State Highway Patrol reported...
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