Calls for secession from U.S. pouring onto White House website; Ohio has...
Thanks to Ohioans Jeremy in Oak Harbor, Bryan R. of Cleveland, and Richard C. of Frankfort, you can support the secession of the Buckeye State from the union.Their proposals are among more than 50...
View ArticleWolf Ledges ramp to close
The Ohio Department of Transportation will permanently close the Wolf Ledges Parkway ramp onto Interstate 76/77 in Akron starting Dec. 17.The state agency and local leaders have been talking about...
View ArticleLocal news briefs — Nov. 14
AKRON SCHOOLSSTEM open houseAKRON: The National Inventors Hall of Fame School-Center for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Learning will hold an open house from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m....
View ArticleArea deaths — Nov. 14
PORTAGEEvans Sr., Elton E., 86, of Nelson Township. Died Monday. Mallory-DeHaven-Carlson, Garrettsville.STARKManion, Veronica J., 61, of Alliance. Died Tuesday. Sharer-Stirling-Skivolocke.Richards,...
View ArticleComing events at Lock 3 Park in Akron
Other plans for Lock 3 this winter season• Ice skating: The rink — the largest in Ohio at 10,000 square feet — will be open starting Saturday through January. It will be staffed with city recreation...
View ArticleHoliday Tree Festival details
The 2012 Holiday Tree Festival is open to the public Saturday through Nov. 25.Hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday....
View ArticleTropical storm provides Akron with holiday tree
Sandy gave Akron its Christmas tree this year.The superstorm damaged a 30-foot blue spruce on Sterling Jewelers’ property in West Akron. A company employee called Akron officials to see if the tree...
View ArticleOne dead, one wounded in shooting; Akron police search for SUV
Akron detectives were investigating a fatal shooting that occurred shortly before 3 p.m. Wednesday near Copley Road and Edgewood Avenue.A 31-year-old man was pronounced dead after being transported to...
View ArticleAnnual Holiday Tree Festival opens to public Saturday
From an angel hidden in an animal-print tree to a fenced winter wonderland, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in downtown Akron.Hundreds of volunteers are spending this week decking the halls...
View ArticleDancing Classrooms steps into spotlight at Akron Roundtable
To convey the impact of his nationwide Dancing Classrooms program, its chief executive, Glen de Vries, told an Akron Roundtable luncheon Thursday about the true story of a single mother whose...
View ArticleArea deaths — Nov. 15
MEDINABrede, Jeremy K., 29, of Seville. Died Tuesday. Hilliard-Rospert, Wadsworth.Kennedy, Vonda, 86, of Wadsworth. Died Wednesday. Hilliard-Rospert.Lee, Twyla, 95, of Wadsworth. Died Thursday....
View ArticleJudge: Ohio bridge bomb plot equal to terrorism
A federal judge has ruled that three men who pleaded guilty in an unsuccessful plot to bomb a highway bridge in Northeast Ohio should be sentenced as terrorists.The ruling from U.S. District Judge...
View ArticleJackson coach arraigned over nude locker room videos
A Jackson High School coach charged with videotaping nude boys in a locker room was ordered held on $2 million bond Thursday and told to stay away from boys.Scott D. Studer, 47, wore an orange jail...
View ArticleAkron police unveil their newest crime-fighting tool
Riddle: What’s heavier than two bowling balls, smaller than a bread box and police like to throw it through windows?It’s a new, diminutive surveillance robot Akron police unveiled to the public...
View ArticleUSO of Northern Ohio to close Jackson Township warehouse, move all care...
JACKSON TWP.: The USO of Northern Ohio by the end of the year will close the Stark County warehouse where a staff member and many volunteers had put together care packages for troops since 2005.About...
View ArticleFamily stunned by death of father in Akron drive-by shooting
Jaquare Jackson had the look of a tough guy: the shaved head, thick arms, broad shoulders. Inside, though, pumped the heart of a father.It’s hard to imagine, for police and his family, why someone...
View ArticleJewell Cardwell: Thanksgiving morning run aids area homeless
A fun time, bragging rights, prizes and an opportunity to help provide hot meals to our homeless community await you when Akron’s Gennesaret Inc. hosts its 21st annual “Home Run for the Homeless” on...
View ArticleGov: Ohio won’t set up state health-care exchange
COLUMBUS: Ohio won’t set up its own health insurance exchange but is instead opting for a partnership with the federal government to run the new online market under President Barack Obama’s health-care...
View ArticleHoliday tree draws focus to victims of child sex trade
SPRINGFIELD TWP.: Nhu Than prays that the day will come when no other child will experience the pain she endured as a victim of child sex trade.“I’ve been telling my story so people will support the...
View ArticleLease discussed for Muskingum
NEW PHILADELPHIA: The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District on Friday said it intends to seek a drilling lease with Antero Resources for district-owned land at Seneca Lake.The terms of the lease...
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