RubberDucks 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...
View ArticleUniversity of Akron basketball: New coach John Groce anxious to get to know...
Newly-minted University of Akron men’s basketball coach John Groce certainly knew the notes to hit upon during his introductory press conference at the Student Union Thursday morning.Mentioning the...
View ArticleU.S. missiles blast Syria base in retaliation for chemical attack
WASHINGTON: The United States blasted a Syrian air base with a barrage of cruise missiles Thursday night in fiery retaliation for this week’s gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians....
View ArticleThousands of people without power in Northeast Ohio
Thousands of FirstEnergy customers are without power due to high winds.The company reports that 15,577 customers were without power in Portage County as of 7:15 a.m. Friday. Meanwhile, another 451 are...
View ArticleMarla Ridenour: Cavaliers, LeBron James shake off listless approach, show...
BOSTON: The battle for the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference didn’t have to be this close.If the Cavaliers consistently summoned the kind of concentration, energy and attention to detail they...
View ArticleDead body found at recycling center identified as Akron man
AKRON: A dead body found mixed in with refuse Thursday morning at the Greenstar Recycling Center in Akron has been identified as a 52-year-old Akron man.Akron police said Friday afternoon that the...
View ArticleUA’s National Society of Black Engineers hosts fair for eighth-graders
About 120 middle school students from Akron Public Schools took part in hands-on activities Thursday at the University of Akron to introduce them to science and engineering.Members of the National...
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Nordonia kindergartner who lost part of leg has plenty of company on journey...
Tessa Puma, the Nordonia kindergartner who recently lost part of her leg to a rare infection, has a long road to recovery ahead of her. One thing’s for sure: She and her family will not have to go it...
View ArticleCrimestoppers offering reward for arrest of Akron man
AKRON: Summit County Crimestoppers Inc. is offering a reward leading to the arrest of an Akron man accused of a home invasion robbery and shooting the resident’s dog.Emmanuel Leville Brown, 24, whose...
View ArticleIt’s lights out for hhgregg as another national retailer folds
INDIANAPOLIS: Consumer electronics chain hhgregg Inc. is going out of business and shutting down all of its stores.The Indianapolis company said Friday that it will liquidate its assets after failing...
View ArticlePolice say Akron woman left kids home alone while she went to Mississippi to...
An Akron woman has been charged with three counts of fourth-degree felony child endangering after being accused of leaving her three children home alone for a week while she went to Mississippi.Nichole...
View ArticleBarberton school district selects new superintendent
Barberton High School Principal Jeff Ramnytz started a Do Your Job initiative this school year, and now he’s getting ready to take on his own new job as district superintendent.After a nearly...
View ArticleBrowns notebook: Ohio State’s Gareon Conley to sign autographs, raise money...
The NFL’s pre-draft process has been a whirlwind for Ohio State cornerback and Massillon graduate Gareon Conley.Flight after flight. Meeting after meeting. Long day after long day.“It’s kind of...
View ArticleHot Spot: Cigar Lodge offers smooth smokes, clubby feel
I don’t know much about cigars. I’m intimately familiar with smoking as a vice/hobby and I remember the cigar fad of the 1990s, but it’s never really been my way of relaxing.But offer me a smooth,...
View ArticleOhio to start accepting pot grower applications this summer
COLUMBUS: Aspiring medical marijuana growers can begin applying for Ohio licenses in June, the Ohio Department of Commerce told a state advisory panel Friday.The department is overseeing selection of...
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