Pro Football Hall of Fame Game: Hardened paint on field leads to cancellation...
CANTON: A capacity crowd of approximately 23,000 showed up Sunday night at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium to watch some football.There were green-and-gold and blue-and-white-dressed spectators all...
View ArticleOrganization from Massachusetts plans heroin candlelight vigil in Akron
AKRON: Heroin is Killing My Town, a grassroots effort dedicated to fighting the heroin epidemic, will hold a call-to-action and candlelight vigil at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Lock 3.Billy Pfaff, the founder of...
View ArticleLaunch cable detaches from Cedar Point’s Top Thrill Dragster, two riders...
The launch cable detached on Cedar Point’s Top Thrill Dragster just before closing time Sunday night, injuring two riders.The park closed the ride Monday so crews could make the necessary repairs and...
View ArticleHospice patient gets red-carpet treatment at private screening
Jackson Twp.: Joan Tovissi has spent a lifetime admiring the performers on the movie screen. Monday, she got to be the star. Tovissi, who will turn 86 on Saturday, was the guest of honor at a private...
View ArticleTwo Akron police officers on leave after separate traffic incidents
Two veteran Akron police officers are on leave after separate traffic incidents.One is accused of having a firearm in her vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. The other was in a crash with his...
View ArticleAkron man pleads guilty to murder in bar shooting, is sentenced to 18 years...
A 45-year-old Akron man was scheduled to go on trial Monday over a January shooting death at a West Akron bar but instead pleaded guilty to murder.Summit County Common Pleas Court Judge Scot Stevenson...
View ArticleAkron detectives investigating 3 robberies possibly committed by same...
Akron detectives are investigating three robberies last week that they think were committed by the same suspects who wore masks or bandanas to obscure their faces.The first robbery happened about 3:30...
View ArticleThieves targeting Stihl products in numerous Portage County barn, shed break-ins
Someone apparently likes to steal Stihls.Brimfield police said that nearly 60 sheds and barns have been broken into over the past three months in Suffield and Randolph townships and Brimfield.More than...
View ArticleCuyahoga Falls beekeeper in middle of neighborhood dispute says someone tried...
CUYAHOGA FALLS: A 17th Street neighborhood feud over a beekeeper’s backyard hobby may have escalated this weekend, with someone attempting to destroy one of the hives.Saturday morning, the Gallagher...
View ArticleTrump arrives at Akron-Canton Airport, heads to private fundraiser in Stark...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump arrived Monday afternoon at Akron-Canton Airport in Green ahead of an appearance at a private fundraiser in Stark County.A spokesperson from the Stark...
View ArticleUniversity of Akron football: Coach Terry Bowden, Zips look to build on last...
Terry Bowden finds himself in an unfamiliar situation as he enters his fifth year as University of Akron football coach.After three sub-.500 seasons with the Zips, Bowden is coming off a winning season...
View ArticleOhio maintenance man accused of recording in bathrooms
LEBANON, OHIO: A maintenance worker suspected of installing video recording equipment in female residents’ bathrooms at a Southwest Ohio apartment complex has been charged with voyeurism and...
View ArticleGet ready to jam in traffic — ODOT begins massive Akron highway project
Car-mageddon officially begins Tuesday morning — just in time for rush hour.The Ohio Department of Transportation will close several ramps and lanes starting at 6 a.m. at the central interchange — the...
View ArticleNortheast Ohio man kills self after killing girlfriend, shooting 2 others
Associated PressELYRIA, OHIO: Authorities in Northeast Ohio say a man fatally shot his girlfriend, then wounded a man and woman at a different location before a police pursuit that ended with the...
View ArticleRush-hour detours start at Akron’s central interchange
Car-maggedon has arrived in Akron.Maybe that should be No-maggedon, based on rush hour this morning even as traffic volumes build up.As of 9 a.m. Tuesday, traffic was flowing fairly smoothly, based on...
View ArticleMemorial set for husband of Lake Township woman hurt by thrown rock
MASSILLON: A memorial service for the husband of a Lake Township woman severely injured when a 5-pound rock was thrown from a Pennsylvania overpass onto her car has been scheduled for Friday at a...
View ArticleStruggle against heroin epidemic draws friends, families of addicts to huge...
While a woman told how her daughter died of a heroin overdose, a grieving mother in a crowd of a thousand listeners held a sign depicting her own smiling son.As the speaker said her daughter’s addict...
View ArticleMan, 34, charged with robbing Lo-Boy Gas in Barberton, Jubilee Donuts in Norton
Police arrested a Barberton man on charges that he robbed stores in two Summit County cities within an hour Tuesday morning.Ozzie M. Wright, also known as Ozzie Mann Jr., was charged with two counts of...
View ArticleFriend recalls torment wife’s injury from rock caused Randy Budd
HARRISBURG, PA.: The husband of a woman who suffered brain damage when teenagers dropped a rock from an interstate overpass onto their car often cried at night, asking why he was spared from harm but...
View ArticleHistoric Green schoolhouse gutted in arson as vandals strike park sites
Arson gutted the historic one-room Lichtenwalter Schoolhouse at Boettler Park in Green early Tuesday morning, authorities said.The Green Fire Department was called to the restored school at 4:51 a.m....
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