Bob Dyer: What happens to Big Dig dirt?
For anyone who believes the media just want to dig up dirt, this column is for you.Bob: I have been wondering what happens with all the rock and soil that is being removed from the tunnel. We are...
View ArticleDemocratic boss steps down to challenge one of the last Republicans elected...
The chair of the Summit County Democratic Party is stepping down to challenge one of the last elected Republicans in Akron.At-large Akron City Councilman Jeff Fusco will relinquish his title as party...
View ArticleResidents fighting Nexus seek more funding from Green
GREEN: With passion in their voices, seven property owners asked the city to put $25,000 toward federal litigation to try to keep the Nexus natural gas pipeline away from the area.The Green and New...
View ArticleAkron school board approves teachers contract, receives master plan for...
Akron public school teachers will get pay raises, pay more for health insurance and see a change in the way they transfer jobs under a new three-year contract approved by board members Wednesday.The...
View ArticleBrowns head of football operations Sashi Brown calls Josh Gordon ‘a talent I...
PHOENIX: The Browns certainly aren’t counting on suspended wide receiver Josh Gordon to complete a comeback, but if the NFL reinstates the 2013 All-Pro selection, the franchise will have a decision to...
View ArticleAs Kyrie Irving hints of locker room issues with Cavs, he vows to do more to...
CHICAGO: After the Cavaliers’ loss Monday in San Antonio, the weight of defending a championship, the frustration of a disappointing night and the responsibility of playing point guard cut straight to...
View Article16-year-old accused of shooting Akron man in the head
A 16-year-old boy from Holly, Mich., is accused of shooting an Akron man in the head this week.The teen has been charged with felonious assault and is in custody of the Summit County Juvenile Detention...
View ArticleLGBT discrimination real, advocates say, despite no mechanism to report it...
By Doug LivingstonBeacon Journal staff writerPam Nash worked at a bank and a bakery growing up in Massachusetts. “It’s not like I don’t have experience, not only in the quick-sale bakery stores but...
View Article’Angel of Death’ serial killer dies after attack in prison
TOLEDO: A former nurse’s aide dubbed the “Angel of Death” after he admitted killing three dozen hospital patients in Ohio and Kentucky died Thursday, two days after he was attacked and beaten in his...
View ArticleODOT planning nearly $400 million of road and bridge work in Akron area this...
LAKE TWP.: Ohio will work on $2.3 billion worth of new and ongoing road and bridge projects this year, including nearly $400 million worth in the Akron area.State leaders announced Thursday that the...
View ArticleFour people and a dog dead in Thursday shooting in Canton
Four people are dead after a shooting in Canton Thursday afternoon, police said.The shooting happened in the 500 block of Smith Avenue NW. Employees from the Stark County Cororner’s office and Ohio...
View ArticleSignet Jewelers sued for securities fraud in wake of sexual harassment...
Signet Jewelers Ltd. is facing a new securities fraud class action lawsuit that accuses the company of making false or misleading statements about the severity of sexual harassment claims against...
View ArticleJudge: Ernest Angley, Cathedral Buffet owe $388,000 over unpaid labor
CUYAHOGA FALLS: Televangelist Ernest Angley and his Cathedral Buffet restaurant have been ordered to pay over $388,000 to a group of employees after a judge found that members of his church were urged...
View ArticleFormer teacher assistant at Christian school in Akron charged with sending...
A former teacher’s assistant at Emmanuel Christian Academy in Akron is charged with sending nude photographs of himself via social media last year to five juvenile girls.Chanc A. Baylor, 23, of Bristol...
View ArticleSmithers Rapra to open new lab in Akron Global Business Accelerator
Testing firm Smithers Rapra will open a new laboratory this summer in the Akron Global Business Accelerator primarily for the global medical device, pharmaceutical and food packaging industries. The...
View ArticleMatthew McConaughey, Bruce Willis shooting gritty films in Northeast Ohio
Be on the lookout for actors Matthew McConaughey and Bruce Willis as you’re zipping around Northeast Ohio. Both descended on the area in the past week to start filming two gritty...
View ArticleMan found dead in ditch in Streetsboro
Authorities discovered a man dead in a ditch Thursday in Streetsboro following a report of a possible body there, the Portage County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.Sheriff’s officers,...
View ArticleLab coats encourage Akron STEM students to research careers, and the stories...
The lab coats, and their wearers, have seen a thing or two in their day.The sweat of long shifts. Maybe a little bit of blood. And, depending on the coat’s age, maybe a hole from a cigarette burn....
View ArticleModern architecture: Summa reveals what its new, six-story tower will look like
Summa Health on Thursday unveiled architects’ renderings of its new front door — a modern-looking, curved, six-story tower that will redefine its main campus in Akron.The 300,000-square-foot building —...
View ArticleCraigslist killer Richard Beasley discusses painting, prison food in letter
Craigslist killer Richard Beasley says prisoners painting is a positive and food in prisons is horrible.Beasley included these insights in a rambling, handwritten letter sent to the Beacon Journal this...
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