Pioneering broadcaster Betty Cope dies
The horse story says it all.It was Thanksgiving 1950. Betty Cope, then working for WEWS (Channel 5) in Cleveland, was supposed to direct a telecast — her first such job, and one that put Santa Claus on...
View ArticleJewish Community Board of Akron receives $10 million gift
The Jewish Community Board of Akron has received a $10 million gift and will rename its West Akron campus after the donors.The 40-acre White Pond Drive campus will be called the Albert L. and Janet A....
View ArticleUtica, Marcellus shales are ripe with natural gas to benefit Ohio, Pennsylvania
COLUMBUS: The Utica and Marcellus shales are poised to produce significant volumes of natural gas that can benefit utilities and manufacturers in the Midwest and the Northeast, according to a new...
View ArticleEvacuation called off in Canton
CANTON: Residents were allowed to return home Tuesday afternoon after the all-clear was sounded in the evacuation zone around a fire at a closed factory.Fire Capt. Charles Day said the level of sulfur...
View ArticleState legislators, led by Northeast Ohio representatives, begin effort to...
COLUMBUS: Facing dismissive, even hostile, comments from colleagues, 11 Ohio legislators met in a closed-door Statehouse session Tuesday morning.Their topic: incivility and what can be done about it.“I...
View ArticleSummit County’s new Valor Court set to begin operation on Veterans Day
Summit Country’s new Valor Court has chosen a target date to begin helping veterans caught in the criminal justice system.Not just any date.It’s Nov. 11, Veterans Day.Valor Court, a bipartisan effort...
View ArticleCanton man arrested in killing of Pearl Harbor survivor
CANTON: Police and FBI agents arrested a Canton man Wednesday for the 2007 killing of an 87-year-old Endrow Avenue Northeast man.Authorities arrested Chester Ray Crank, 33, at a residence in the 900...
View ArticleKSU approves property exchange for new construction
Kent State trustees agreed Wednesday to trade buildings with a fraternity — a move that eventually will lead to a new home for the KSU Division of Institutional Advancement.Gene Finn, vice president of...
View ArticleBob Dyer: Lots o’ little stuff
Feels like a miscellaneous kind of day, doesn’t it?So here is some miscellaneous stuff for your dining pleasure. It’s fast, easy and nonfattening.Psychic shiftLots of groups stage “haunted houses,” but...
View ArticleBond set for Akron man awaiting retrial in 1993 slaying
An Akron man had his bond set at $750,000 as he awaits a new trial later this year for what his lawyers say was a wrongful conviction in the 1993 slaying of Goodyear Heights retiree Neal J....
View ArticleArea deaths — Sept. 19
MEDINAHarris, E. Jay, 88, of Litchfield Township. Died Tuesday. Bauer, Valley City.Lee, Lois Maxine, 84, of Wadsworth. Died Tuesday. Hilliard-Rospert.STARKFelger, Harold, 88, of Alliance. Died Tuesday....
View ArticleThe Scene: Taste of the NFL supports Foodbank
The Perry High School Percussion Band greeted guests as they arrived for Taste of the NFL at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton Tuesday night. The benefit for the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank...
View ArticleAkron launches new more secure website
Akron launched a new website this week that the city hopes will be both easier to use and more secure.The site, still accessible at www.akronohio.gov/, went live Tuesday night and is the result of a...
View ArticleStark commissioners streamline 911 operations in county
CANTON: Stark County commissioners decided Wednesday to eliminate the county’s 911 call-taking operation, a move expected to save time and money.Beginning in January, 911 calls from landlines outside...
View ArticleLocal news briefs —Sept. 19
AKRONSuspects caughtAKRON: Akron police arrested two suspects in connection with Wednesday’s armed robbery of a Goodyear Heights electronics store.The two are accused of using a handgun and a knife and...
View ArticleAbout the Homeless Outreach Program
MORE ON PROGRAMAbout 60 people in the Akron area found housing through the Homeless Outreach Program and other Community Support Services programs in the most recent fiscal year, said Keith Stahl,...
View ArticleHistory of former St. Bernard School building
School HistorySt. Bernard School, a Roman Catholic elementary, was housed in the Akron building immediately north of St. Bernard Church on South Broadway from its opening in 1887 until 1979.Enrollment...
View ArticleOhio outpaces most of the country in growth of extreme poverty
More Ohioans can be called the poorest of the poor. The percentage of people at the very bottom, earning 50 percent of the poverty level or less, grew from 4.6 percent of Ohioans in 2000 to 7.6...
View ArticleAkron man who lived in school doorway for seven years is now in own apartment
For seven years, Lavorn “Bear” Merryweather called a doorway his home.Over the winter, Merryweather even tried to complete college-level work on a laptop at the de facto homeless shelter at an empty...
View ArticleHomeless people who live in doorways of St. Bernard School building must move...
A historic building across the street from the Akron Police Department that over the past decade has become an outdoor refuge for the homeless will be torn down this fall.Men and women who live in and...
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