NBA All-Star Game: Hometown Pelicans’ Anthony Davis scores record 52 points...
NEW ORLEANS: The two previous times New Orleans hosted the NBA All-Star Game, a Cavaliers player picked up the MVP award.LeBron James earned the honor in 2008, Kyrie Irving in 2014.That streak came to...
View ArticleBob Sax steps aside as Garfield football coach after 15 years with Golden Rams
By Michael BeavenBeacon Journal sports writerBob Sax will not return for a 16th season as Garfield football coach.Sax, 46, graduated from Garfield in 1988. He served as an assistant under coach Bill...
View ArticleMartin H. Belsky: Scalia, Roberts and sanctuary cities
A number of local and state government leaders have indicated that they will not comply with federal orders to seize “illegal” or “undocumented” aliens. Some mayors and even governors have stated that...
View ArticleMissing Texas father who vanished under mysterious circumstances found living...
A man who disappeared under mysterious circumstances from San Antonio, Texas, earlier this month and was the target of a massive search has been found safe and living in Northeast Ohio.“He wanted to...
View ArticleWoman charged with theft after riding motorized shopping cart in middle of...
A Warren woman is accused of riding a stolen motorized shopping cart Sunday night in the middle of North Cleveland-Massillon Road in Bath Township.Melissa Bradley, 33, was charged with fifth-degree...
View ArticleAkron-area women to be recognized with Woman of the Year awards
About two years ago, Dr. Melanie Lynch of Summa Health System was diagnosed with breast cancer.She ended up being cared for by her very own medical team, having joined Summa Health in 2013 as medical...
View ArticleBob Dyer: Let’s trade rust for water
Your favorite newspaper recently published a lengthy story saying Ohio Gov. John Kasich wants to bury the name “Rust Belt,” the less-than-flattering term routinely invoked to describe the states in our...
View ArticleFree admission, warm weather contribute to huge day at Akron Zoo
Most Februaries, zookeepers drain the flamingo pool as the graceful, stilted birds turn wobbly on ice.So, it was an extra delight for Xavier Wackerly, 6, to lean over the rope and chuckle at the...
View ArticleAfter a lifetime of banking, it’s difficult to process this FirstMerit...
The most joyful noise to childhood ears was the metallic sound of the world shaking. When I was a boy in the 1970s, my parents gave me a toy bank of the globe, a pressed-tin sphere that had a coin slot...
View ArticleSummit Brew Path off to smashing start; Guilford Township couple complete it...
Karen Bujak and Karl Boettger took it as a challenge.With the inaugural Summit Brew Path kicking off last weekend, the Guilford Township couple were determined to complete the new Akron-area beer trail...
View ArticleMan shot, killed by police after long standoff in Kent, alleged hostage...
On Monday, stunned friends of a man killed by Kent police on Sunday maintained a vigil outside the apartment building where the shooting took place.Police shot Christopher Carter, 27, at the end of a...
View ArticleIndians: Edwin Encarnacion gives lineup booming bat
GOODYEAR, Ariz.: As fans lining the chain-link fence next to the Indians’ main practice field jockeyed for better position to snatch an autograph or selfie with the team’s newest star, Edwin...
View ArticleNate Ulrich: Forecasting this crucial offseason for Browns
The next nine weeks will be among the most crucial in the history of the expansion-era Browns.The NFL Scouting Combine will run Feb. 28 through March 6 in Indianapolis. Teams can begin negotiating with...
View ArticleMarla Ridenour: As Cavaliers open second half of season, injuries, time two...
NEW ORLEANS: Perhaps LeBron James and Kyrie Irving were merely in feel-good, All-Star break mode.They used their weekend in New Orleans to decompress, to enjoy time with friends in the league, to...
View ArticleDevelopers team up on $25 million plan to reopen City Center Hotel in...
Two Akron area developers are teaming up on a $25 million renovation of the vacant Akron City Center Hotel, with plans to turn it into a hotel and apartment complex. “I think everybody knows there were...
View ArticleCuyahoga Falls hospital deploys germ-zapping robot as cure to...
CUYAHOGA FALLS: It’s not exactly Star Wars technology, but Western Reserve Hospital’s newest employee does look a bit like R2-D2.Her co-workers have named her Violet, and for more than a month, the...
View ArticleODOT reducing I-76 westbound in Barberton and Norton to one lane
The Ohio Department of Transportation is reducing Interstate 76 westbound to one lane through Barberton and Norton during the day as crews work to clear trees along the highway.The traffic change,...
View ArticleAkron Councilman Bob Hoch relieved after being sentenced to probation for...
Akron Councilman Bob Hoch was relieved Tuesday afternoon after he was sentenced to one year of probation for misdemeanor ethics law violations.He faced up to 180 days in jail on each of three conflict...
View ArticleLawmakers look to North Hill for answers on immigration debate
Rollin Mukanza launched a carpet cleaning business without knowing how to clean carpets — only the desire to prosper.The Ellet man fled the Congo more than a decade ago to settle in Akron. With a...
View ArticleAkron police arrest suspect after woman is found slain on patio
Akron police arrested a man Tuesday night who is accused of shooting and killing a 31-year-old woman earlier Tuesday. Duane M. Lucas, 29, of Akron faces murder charges in the death of Brittany...
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