Summit County judge denies request to reverse woman’s lifetime driving ban...
A Summit County judge issued a written decision Thursday that denies a motion to grant driving privileges to an Akron woman who pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide and DUI in a 2005 fatal...
View ArticleJob prospects attract thousands at new Rocksino
NORTHFIELD: Scott Marsh really wanted to attend the job fair Thursday at the Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park, but there was no baby sitter available for his 1-year-old daughter.So the Painesville...
View ArticleWorst possible outcome becomes reality in case of missing Akron woman
The signs have always been ominous.Taylor Robinson wasn’t there when her mother came to pick her up from a Kipling Street house where she had worked overnight as a private health-care aide.Her coat and...
View ArticleFirst Tee’s nine core values
When participants enter the First Tee program, they are taught to play the game, and live their lives, accordingly to nine core values.Honesty: The quality or state of being truthful, not...
View ArticleEllet High golfer going to national First Tee Open at Pebble Beach
Perseverance is one of the First Tee of Akron’s nine core values.It has helped not only to improve his game, Ellet High golfer Ben Cockerham said, but also his approach to other tasks whenever he feels...
View ArticleFirst Tee Akron officials coping with failed merger attempt
The idea was simple: Merge three local chapters of the First Tee, a national youth golf organization, into a regional powerhouse that would vastly improve participation, name recognition and...
View ArticleLocal news briefs — compiled Sept. 14
Bath TownshipDetour at bridgeBATH TWP.: A 30-day closure of the Yellow Creek Road bridge — about a third of a mile east of Cleveland-Massillon Road — will start Thursday.Detour routes will be posted....
View ArticleSewer issue in Norton faces reluctant council’s vote
NORTON: The issue over who will pay for sewer-system improvements in the city shows no sign of abating, with the council president saying he would sooner “go to jail” than vote to put the issue on...
View ArticlePortage sheriff will reduce courthouse security and suspend inmate work...
The Portage County sheriff will reduce security at the county’s Kent and Ravenna courthouses and suspend a program that uses inmates for cleaning, mowing and painting projects after the Portage County...
View ArticleBob Dyer: Uplifting deeds, done dirt cheap
Finding a note on the windshield of your car is rarely a good thing.A piece of paper under the wiper blade generally ranges from a parking ticket to an annoying flier to a handwritten note that might...
View ArticleCopley trap shooting range under fire in civil suit
COPLEY TWP.: One of the most successful youth trap-shooting teams in the nation soon could find itself homeless.Copley Township has filed a civil lawsuit seeking to stop one of the area’s oldest clubs...
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This is the first of two days examining how schools and police have adjusted to the threat of violence after shootings at Sandy Hook, Columbine and Chardon.Today: Immediate response — Debate over the...
View ArticleSandy Hook, Columbine shootings stir local debate over teaching kids to run,...
As a child grows, so grows the list of warnings.Don’t run with scissors.Don’t stick your fingers in the fan.Don’t play in the street.With the horror of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings less...
View ArticleCleveland’s last trolley car and two other old cars find a new home at museum...
WESTFIELD TWP:The stories that these old electric rail cars could tell.A fleet of more than three-dozen historic electric cars at the Northern Ohio Railway Museum have been joined by three more,...
View ArticleKSU says Louisiana fraternity sign is “inappropriate,” invites sign makers to...
Kent State University invited members of a Louisiana State University fraternity to visit the Ohio campus’ May 4 Visitor Center after they created a banner referencing the historic campus...
View ArticleODOT offers sound proposal
The Ohio Department of Transportation will hold two public meetings this week to talk about installing noise walls in northern Summit and southern Cuyahoga counties.The state agency will hold an open...
View ArticleRegion briefs — Sept. 16
HUDSONHistorian to speakHUDSON: Historian Richard Beeman will inaugurate the Hudson Library & Historical Society’s new American Heritage Series at 7 p.m. Tuesday.The series aims to explore the...
View ArticleOhio lawmaker proposing that Ohio license plates help fund private education
Proponents of publicly funded charter and private schools can make a donation to the school choice movement through their local Bureau of Motor Vehicles if one state lawmaker gains support for...
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This is the second of two days examining how schools and police have adjusted to the threat of violence after shootings at Sandy Hook, Columbine and Chardon.Sunday: Immediate response — Debate over the...
View ArticleSchools are safer after Sandy Hook, but not perfect; cost is a factor
For most of us, our mental images of teachers rushing toward the Sandy Hook Elementary School gunman were vivid and horrible but fleeting.We thought of the children, the carnage, the bravery, the...
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