High school notebook: Sean Flaherty steps down as Cuyahoga Falls football...
Cuyahoga Falls is in need of a high school football coach following Sean Flaherty’s resignation after four seasons.Flaherty, 37, compiled a record of 7-33 in charge of the Black Tigers during the past...
View ArticleCanton mother charged with cutting children’s necks
CANTON: Police say an Stark County woman is charged with the attempted murder of her two children after she cut their necks, cut her own wrists and called 911 to report the injuries.Police say the 7-...
View ArticlePolice say shoplifter trapped in Brimfield store after closing calls 911
BRIMFIELD TWP.: Police say a suspected shoplifter called 911 for help after she hid in a fitting room at closing time and got locked inside a department store.Brimfield Township police say surveillance...
View ArticleCounty forecloses on the Rubber Bowl
The deteriorating Rubber Bowl could be rock ’n’ rolling if the city rezones it for music concerts, a move its new owners say would unleash millions of dollars in private investments from the other side...
View ArticleUniversity of Akron selects John Groce to lead men’s basketball program
The University of Akron on Wednesday selected former Illinois and Ohio coach John Groce to lead the men’s basketball program.Groce, 45, who reportedly will receive a six-year contract, will be...
View ArticleAkron Dish: New chef at Canal Park in Akron serves up grandma’s recipe; UA...
Thank you, Grandma.That is, the grandma of Canal Park’s new Executive Chef James Phillips.He explains that his grandmother’s culinary talents are the inspiration for the new Southern Fried Chicken...
View ArticleLafayette Township trustee stabbed multiple times, according to preliminary...
MEDINA: A Lafayette Township trustee whose body was found in Chippewa Lake was stabbed multiple times, according to preliminary autopsy results obtained Wednesday by WKYC (Channel 3).According to a...
View ArticleUp to 2 inches of rain and another 5 inches of snow possible in Akron by...
Akron residents may have a chance to break out their umbrellas and snow shovels all within the span of 24 hours.Both raindrops and snowflakes are in the weather forecast in Akron.The National Weather...
View ArticleIf Browns have quarterback-free first round, they could circle back to QBs...
As much as the Browns need a quarterback, there’s no guarantee they’ll draft one in the first round on April 27.And if they pass on the headliners and instead pick from the second tier, remember these...
View ArticleBob Dyer: Roads near Akron hospitals resemble Baja 500
Fifteen months ago, I wrote a column about a veteran paramedic who said the streets around two of Akron’s main hospitals were so bad that his patients were physically suffering because of...
View ArticleTestimony begins in Willard McCarley’s third trial in the 1992 slaying of...
The last time Phyllis Puffenbarger saw her daughter alive, she didn’t get to say she loved her.That’s what she said during her testimony on Wednesday, 25 years after her daughter — 26-year-old Charlene...
View ArticleHigh school scores, summaries and schedules — April 5
BASEBALLScoring SummariesAURORA 9, BARBERTON 7Barberton 122 010 1 — 7 9 1Aurora 202 400 1 — 9 11 0Batteries—Chisnell, May (4), Saunders (5) and Murphy; Coady, Mitch (5) and Capretta. W—Mitch....
View ArticleOfficials: Ohio man shared child porn of sex acts with animals
MORRISTOWN, OHIO: An Ohio man is accused of sharing child pornography online that showed young kids being forced to engage in sexual acts with animals.Thirty-year-old Russell Conrad, of Morristown, is...
View ArticleCavaliers 114, Celtics 91: LeBron James’ dazzling second-quarter effort shows...
BOSTON: LeBron James may have picked up a little something about smokescreens from the master when he nearly landed in Patriots coach Bill Belichick’s lap on his last visit to TD Garden.On Tuesday...
View ArticleRubberDucks first to test out new lights at Progressive Field; new food...
The Akron RubberDucks found themselves under the bright lights Wednesday night — a day before Thursday’s home opener at Canal Park.The team traveled north to Cleveland’s Progressive Field for batting...
View ArticleGrant to help greenhouse grow at new Case elementary school
By Monica L. ThomasBeacon Journal staff writerLeafy greens spill forth from trays on a table tucked off to the side in Stephanie Baugh’s third-grade classroom at Case Elementary School in Akron.The big...
View ArticleProsecutor: ‘Inappropriate to draw conclusions’ in death of township Trustee...
MEDINA: Authorities still won’t say how Lafayette Township trustee Bryon Macron died, even after releasing autopsy reports that show he had a serious gash on his neck and skin-deep cuts on his...
View ArticleDavey Tree CEO retiring; Kent company buying Oak Knolls East golf course
Karl Warnke started out in the dirt at Davey Tree Expert Co., working as a landscape laborer.Over the next 27 years, he rose to the top of the Kent-headquartered company, assuming the CEO post in...
View ArticleMan’s body found on conveyor belt at Akron recycling center
Sorters for a conveyor belt at a recycling center in Akron made a startling discovery Thursday morning: a man’s body mixed in with the refuse.“We have a dead body in our pre-sort area in our recycle...
View Article‘Amazing Race’ contestant Michael Rado, who grew up in Medina, talks about...
Michael Rado likes busting stereotypes. A butcher, who worked as a chef for many years, he is not the most likely contestant on a globe-trotting endurance show. But Rado, who grew up in Medina, is...
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