Local news briefs — Jan. 6
SUMMIT COUNTYApply for judgeshipAKRON: Summit County Republican Party officials are accepting applications to fill a judicial opening in Common Pleas Court after Judge Elinore Marsh Stormer’s Nov. 6...
View ArticleNearly half million Ohio kids likely to fall from ‘proficient’ under new...
In 2014, Ohio will begin using new online tests to determine how our public school children compare on core subjects with those in other states and whether they are college ready.And when those tests...
View ArticleAkron hacker group offers creative space, instruction, neighborliness
Andrew Leitholf of Cuyahoga Falls started brewing beer in his apartment three years ago. Now he has a cavernous former factory in which to whip up his barley, oats and hops.The 26-year-old graduate...
View ArticleTaxi drivers to help Columbus police as lookouts
COLUMBUS: Taxi drivers will be drafted as official lookouts for police as part of a program being adopted by a central Ohio cab company.Yellow Cab of Columbus recently said it is adopting the national...
View ArticleArea deaths — Jan. 5
Area deathsMedinaJohnson, Timothy H., 74, of Medina. Died Saturday. Murray, Creston.WayneAdams, Melissa L., 28, of Orrville. Died Friday. Auble.Filuta, Betty J., 84, of Orrville. Died Friday....
View ArticleSteubenville unveils new city-backed website tied to highly publicized rape case
Authorities investigating rape accusations against two high school football players in eastern Ohio launched a website Saturday as interest in the case balloons, an extraordinary step designed to...
View ArticleArea deaths — Monday, Jan. 7
STARKGarlanger, Louellen, 87, of Alliance. Died Thursday. Cassaday-Turkle-Christian.PORTAGEKatich, John, 85, of Streetsboro. Died Friday. Cassaday-Turkle-Christian.
View ArticleCanton to send sludge to American Landfill; in return, dump will pipe...
A landfill in southern Stark County wants to build a 12-mile pipeline to ship landfill liquids to the city of Canton’s sewage plant.In return, the city would ship its sewage sludge to American...
View ArticleLocal history: Building goes from meat packing to “meat market”
The location was prime. The clientele was select. The product was choice.Unfortunately, the business just didn’t cut it.The Portage Packing Co. was a meat-processing plant at Merriman Road and Portage...
View ArticleLakemore mayor marks first year in office, sets goals for 2013
LAKEMORE: Mayor Rick Justice was prepared to jump behind the wheel of a snowplow last month when weather forecasters predicted more than a foot of snow could fall in Northeast Ohio.It wouldn’t be the...
View ArticleSalesman for nearly 70 years, ‘Uncle Dunckel’ retires at 91
George Dunckel started selling classroom furniture before Joe Louis lost a heavyweight title fight in 1950.It’s a landmark in time that helps “Uncle Dunckel” remember the old days, when “schools...
View ArticleCharity events — week of Jan. 7
This WeekFridayPizza Oven Charities 2013 Kickoff Event — 7 p.m. at the Canton Civic Center, 1101 Market Ave N., Canton. Pizza, music and dancing, sponsored by the DiPietro Family. Provides clothes for...
View ArticleFire destroys Elms athletic building in Bath Township
A motorist traveling on Interstate 77 was the first to spot flames tearing through the Our Lady of the Elms athletic complex in Bath Township early Sunday morning.School officials say by the time fire...
View ArticleTwo teen girls shot in Akron; 1 dead, other hospitalized
A 16-year-old girl was killed and a 19-year-old girl shot in the head in a double shooting Sunday morning on Archwood Avenue in Akron.The younger girl was pronounced dead at the scene, while the older...
View ArticlePortage County residents test water amid concerns of oil-field contamination
STREETSBORO: Two men stroll in from the Streetsboro shopping plaza with water-filled Mason jars wrapped in plastic grocery bags.“Mine’s a little rusty,” Lake Milton resident Istvan Domonkos tells the...
View ArticleSigns of Children’s growth sprouting in downtown Akron
The latest sign of Akron Children’s Hospital’s growth is sprouting in downtown Akron.Construction is under way on a 1,250-space parking garage across from the hospital’s campus on West Exchange...
View ArticleGirl, 16, fatally shot Sunday in Akron was 4 months pregnant
David Nelson still has the bullet that might have killed him and his sister.The tiny metal symbol brings little solace to the 18-year-old Akron man, only vivid memories of what happened to his friends...
View ArticleMargo Sommerville takes her father’s seat on Akron council
Margo Sommerville was only 7 when her father, Marco, first took a spot on Akron City Council. Marco Sommerville held the Bible on Monday for Margo, now 32, who is taking over his Ward 3 seat.Akron City...
View ArticleJewell Cardwell: Good Neighbors needs volunteers to stay open
In a desperate appeal, longtime Good Neighbor volunteer Lee Wallach has asked me “to please scare up some younger volunteers” to help at the Spicer unit of Good Neighbors, located inside Trinity...
View ArticleOhio Supreme Court weighs DNA testing for inmate convicted in 1990 slaying of...
A Portage County man on death row wants new DNA tests on a cigarette butt found at the scene of a 1990 double murder.Prosecutors told the Ohio Supreme Court Tuesday morning that even if such testing...
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