ODOT to close busy Akron highway ramps this weekend
Motorists will encounter plenty of detours on Akron highways this weekend.The Ohio Department of Transportation will begin painting five bridges along Interstate 77 between the central interchange and...
View ArticleAkron says employer payroll functions are restored on its web site, although...
UPDATE: City of Akron officials say their website has been restored to allow income tax payments by registered users although a statement on the home page warns that some features continue to be...
View ArticleStrawberry Festival returns today to Medina’s Sharon Center
A Strawberry Festival will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. today at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church, 6462 Ridge Road in Sharon Center.The festival, which has been in retirement for 14 years, will feature...
View ArticleArea deaths — June 14
MEDINAGottron, Douglas M., 97, of Spencer. Died Wednesday. Parker & Son.Nagy, John L., 97, of Spencer. Died Wednesday. Parker & Son.STARKOliver, Myra G., 70, of Massillon. Died Monday....
View ArticleArea briefs — June 14
AKRONSeller hitAKRON: An Akron man is accused of assaulting and robbing a man who came to his house to sell a video game system.Syon Martin, 27, is being held in the Summit County Jail on charges of...
View ArticleJury trial set for woman arrested for refusing to leave tree
The case of an Akron woman arrested after refusing to come down from an ash tree in Highland Square wasn’t resolved in a pretrial hearing Friday and is now set for a jury trial.Sharon Pritt, 31, of...
View ArticleAkron’s website might not be completely restored for months
The city of Akron’s website was able to accept payroll tax payments for Friday’s deadline, but some features of the site will not be restored for months.And when services are restored, city officials...
View ArticleBoth sides awaiting arguments in appeal of Prade exoneration
By Ed MeyerBeacon Journal staff writerThe most recent DNA tests of crime scene evidence exonerating Douglas Prade for the 1997 aggravated murder of his ex-wife, Dr. Margo Prade, are meaningless,...
View ArticleStow moves forward with tax increase levy for additional police
STOW: City Council voted 5-2 Thursday night to ask voters to increase the city’s income tax by 0.25 percent.If passed in November, the income tax would rise to 2.25 percent and funds generated would go...
View ArticleJewell Cardwell: Dream of home of their own comes true
Dream they did — they always have — the poetic and simple dream of living in a house by the side of the road and being a friend to man.However, James and Sheila Harris of Barberton, who had lived so...
View ArticleFirstEnergy signs appear on Cleveland Browns Stadium
Workers from Sign-Lite of Cleveland installed FirstEnergy’s name on Cleveland Browns Stadium Friday as part of the renaming of the pro-football facility.FirstEnergy is paying $102 million over 17 years...
View ArticleNational Guardsmen arrive home from Afghanistan in a scene that may become rare
CUYAHOGA FALLS: It was a small group, but nonetheless moving as they arrived home from danger. And what they represented was something hopeful — maybe there won’t be many more of these. A dozen Ohio...
View ArticleGee greeted warmly in Kent
Kent: A rock star rolled into Kent on Friday with a tour bus, cheerleaders, Brutus Buckeye, 8-foot inflatables and buttons.This was Gordon Gee’s last stop on his last tour in the last weeks of his...
View ArticleArea deaths — June 14
Area deathsMedinaFisher, Frank P., 77, of Valley City. Died Thursday. Bauer.
View ArticleInfoCision’s history
1982 — Gary Taylor, who began his career as a television time-buyer with the Humbard Foundation, forms InfoCision as a telemarketing company.1983 — Bill Forsyth, a former Bell Labs computer software...
View ArticleDetails of the lawsuit
A class-action lawsuit against InfoCision was filed Dec. 10, 2010, in U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, and presided over by Judge Sara Lioi. It was settled May 9, 2012.The lead plaintiff...
View ArticleMedals of war, all but forgotten, now here for Father’s Day
By Ed MeyerBeacon Journal staff writerTom Brokaw’s 1998 book, The Greatest Generation, was perched on a pedestal, opened to the title page, at my father’s 2004 memorial service on the South Side of...
View ArticleAkron area people show up for ‘ZombieMom’ movie tryouts in Barberton
BARBERTON: The casting call for the movie ZombieMom brought out some of the local talent in the Akron-Cleveland area. About 80 people signed up for tryouts Saturday, held at the Fast Lane Bowling...
View ArticleBob Dyer: Rogue cruiser or mistaken identity?
Not infrequently, I’ll be driving down the interstate and watch a police cruiser from another jurisdiction blow by me at 80 mph.Now, I’m pretty sure the officer is not involved in a hot pursuit that...
View ArticleTotem pole made by father, a symbol of the tree of life for four generations
GREEN: Roger Carano often walks to the back of his yard and stands near the totem pole.The pole offers a connection to his late father, Joe Carano, who carved it more than a half century ago.“It is my...
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