Dix Communications newspapers sold to Gatehouse Media
Gatehouse Media, owner of the Canton Repository, Massillon Independent and Columbus Dispatch, announced Tuesday that it has purchased Dix Communications. The chain had been operated by the Dix family...
View ArticleSmucker Uncrustables demand growing; company plans to build plant in Colorado...
Who knew that crustless PB&J sandwiches have become a $200 million business for J.M. Smucker Co. of Orrville?The food company revealed Tuesday that to keep up with demand, it is building a second...
View ArticleBattered women’s shelter will open doors this month with meal dilemma solved
A number of delays, including nowhere to prepare meals, won’t stop the new Summit County Battered Women’s Shelter from opening by mid-February, its director said Tuesday.Terri Heckman, the director of...
View ArticleCanton man, 69, charged with downloading child pornography
A 69-year-old Canton man has been charged in federal court with downloading 24 files of child pornography from the internet that were monitored by the FBI.Marshall Belden Jr., of Market Avenue South,...
View ArticleFBI arrests woman, boyfriend on charges that they enticed her teen daughter...
Canton police aided in the FBI arrest of a Mansfield woman charged alongside her boyfriend with allowing her teenage daughter to be photographed while engaging in sex acts.In addition, 41-year-old Amy...
View ArticleAkron man sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting death of 19-year-old...
A 22-year-old Akron man was sentenced to 10 years in prison this week for the November 2015 shooting death of a 19-year-old Akron man.Under an agreement with prosecutors, Jovonte A. Veal pleaded guilty...
View ArticleHigh school scores, summaries and schedules — Jan. 31
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 ArticleGrade 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 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 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 ArticleSurviving victim loses appeal of release of records in triple-murder case;...
The surviving victim of a shooting rampage that left three others dead has lost her appeal of the release of her medical records and other personal information during a capital-murder trial last...
View ArticleEmailed threat prompts metal detectors and extra security at Firestone High...
Firestone High School students were greeted Wednesday morning with metal detectors and extra police security after an email threatening harm to students was sent to a teacher Tuesday night.“We got a...
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 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 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...
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