South side barber inspires blacks to vote
Rodney Dennis walked to the edge of his south Akron neighborhood and stopped. Across Archwood Avenue, he pointed to a park, a library, a church and a old brick schoolhouse, kept pristine in a...
View ArticleFor Summit common pleas judge: Scot Stevenson and Todd McKenney
Joy Oldfield won election to a judgeship on the Akron Municipal Court five years ago. Now, before her term ends, she is asking voters to approve a promotion to the Summit County common pleas bench. She...
View ArticleHigh school football Friday night scoreboard
Friday’s GamesCity SeriesBuchtel 21, Garfield 0East 38, Ellet 31Federal LeagueLake 28, North Canton Hoover 14Perry 35, Green 30Greater Cleveland Conference Euclid 28, Elyria 21Mentor 35, Medina 32Solon...
View ArticleProposals accepted by ADM Board to open housing for drug addicts awaiting...
Summit County is seeking agencies to provide temporary housing for recovering drug addicts while they wait for a spot in a treatment program. Proposals to the Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health...
View ArticleDowntown Akron may start shaking as contractors blast underground rock for...
Akron is warning downtown property owners, workers and residents that the earth may soon shake beneath their feet.Contractors might begin blasting underground in a couple of weeks as workers continue...
View ArticleIndians notebook: Players get taste of playoff atmosphere, expand on 2013...
CLEVELAND: For many of the Indians players on the field Thursday and Friday, it was their first taste of playoff baseball and the added electricity that comes with it. For others, it was their second...
View ArticleTrump apologizes yet he’s still defiant after crude remarks
NEW YORK: After being caught on tape making shockingly crude comments about a married woman he tried to seduce, Donald Trump declared in a midnight video, “I was wrong and I apologize.” Yet he claimed...
View ArticleMarla Ridenour: Indians’ success against Red Sox illustrates franchise’s...
CLEVELAND: In the past 18 months, everything came together.Strikingly evident after a 6-0 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Friday at Progressive Field gave the Indians a 2-0 lead in the American...
View ArticleBlack voters, if inspired, could tip the scales in presidential race
In the run-up to Ohio’s voter registration deadline Tuesday, civil rights advocates and Democrats have aggressively pushed for high voter turnout among blacks, a voting block that could decide the...
View ArticleHigh school scores, summaries and schedules — Oct. 7
FootballScoreboardFriday’s ResultsAlliance 42, Carrollton 32Archbishop Hoban 30, Parma Padua 10Ashland 49, Mount Vernon 36Aurora 49, Revere 21Austintown Fitch 38, Ashtabula Lakeside 0Avon 49, N....
View ArticleHigh school football / Hudson 25, Stow 24: Explorers use 15-0 fourth quarter...
HUDSON: Fighting for its playoff life and a share of a league championship, Hudson delivered a fourth-round knockout to previously unbeaten Stow on Friday.Rallying from a 17-point deficit, the...
View ArticleHigh school football/East 38, Ellet 31: Fourth-quarter comeback propels...
East football players celebrated their second win in a row at the University of Akron’s InfoCision Stadium by dousing coach Marques Hayes with a bucket of Gatorade.Hayes and his assistants were fired...
View ArticleHigh school football/Copley 33, Highland 16: Indians use big plays on defense...
MEDINA: It wasn’t the prettiest of football games Friday night at Highland’s North Gateway Tire Field, but for the Copley Indians it was enough to earn a 33-16 Suburban League American Conference...
View ArticleWikiLeaks email dump reveals parts of Clinton’s speeches to Wall Street
WASHINGTON: Excerpts of Hillary Clinton’s paid speeches, including those to Wall Street, were leaked Friday, a revelation that may perpetuate criticism that she is an out-of-touch Washington insider...
View ArticleLeBron James endorsement: For my kids, for Hillary
Two years ago, I told you I was coming home to Northeast Ohio — where I was born and raised. When I came back, I had two missions.In June, thanks to my teammates and all your support, I accomplished my...
View ArticleFacebook’s Oculus to start selling hand controllers
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook says it’s working to make virtual reality more social as the industry gets more crowded.With a host of leading tech companies now selling VR products, Facebook’s Oculus division...
View ArticleObit: Ronald Simon, Cuyahoga Falls teacher, artist
The artwork of Ronald D. Simon lives on in some 700 private collections throughout North America. A six-part metal sculpture he did for the University of Akron is remembered by many. Still others...
View ArticleBrowns notebook: Andrew Hawkins says rookie QB Cody Kessler ‘has a lot of...
BEREA: Virtually everyone who watched Browns rookie quarterback Cody Kessler in the preseason had doubts about whether he would be ready to function in a regular-season game this year.But Kessler’s...
View ArticleBob Dyer: Falls forks over $335,000 to fired employee
The Cuyahoga Falls School Board’s decision to sack an employee two years ago has cost taxpayers $335,000, not including the district’s legal fees.The out-of-court settlement included a confidentiality...
View ArticleFlorida not so sweet: Akronite moves home, creates Halloween tradition for city
Claude DeBord was 12 years old when he left South Akron and moved with his family to St. Petersburg, Fla. That October he went trick-or-treating inside an old minor league baseball stadium.It was hot....
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