Green students travel back in time to learn like it’s 1885
GREEN: In just the short time needed to exit a school bus and enter the nearby 131-year-old building at Boettler Park, Green Primary School third-graders are whisked back to 1885 for a special day of...
View ArticleCavaliers notebook: Cavs will worry about injured Raptors center Jonas...
By George ThomasBeacon Journal sports writerToronto Raptors coach Dwane Casey still has hopes of getting center Jonas Valanciunas on the floor against the Cavs in the Eastern Conference Finals and the...
View ArticleCity Series Baseball Championship/Ellet 3, Firestone 2: Orangemen clip...
Ellet seniors Dylan Huey, Derek Cook and Dustin Franklin concluded their high school baseball careers in style with another City Series title Tuesday.With a regular season championship already in hand,...
View ArticlePR executive Dave Meeker in serious condition after collapsing on golf...
Akron public relations professional Dave Meeker swung his golf club, stumbled backward and fell to the ninth green of Good Park Golf Course.One of Meeker’s golf buddies started CPR, while another...
View ArticlePepper spray at RNC training in Canton enough to silence even a loudmouth...
Perhaps my choice of a protest chant could have been a bit less provocative and even original.But after I fired off one round of “Hey, hey, ho, ho, cops with pepper spray gotta’ go!” lead tactical...
View ArticleIndians notebook: Jason Kipnis at home playing in Chicago (and getting some...
CHICAGO: Indians second basemen Jason Kipnis has a carefully regimented food plan when visiting Chicago. A Chicago native who lives downtown during the offseason, Kipnis gets to make three trips a...
View ArticleCavaliers report: Struggling Kevin Love puts in extra work, has Tyronn Lue’s...
INDEPENDENCE: Kevin Love was busy working on his suddenly missing shooting touch at Cleveland Clinic Courts on Tuesday.In the shots went, one by one, consistently, nearly without effort, and without...
View ArticleRaptors return from rubble to compete with Cavaliers for Eastern Conference...
TORONTO: When Chris Bosh and LeBron James joined together with the Miami Heat six years ago, they left behind two franchises that disintegrated into irrelevance. Without their franchise pillars, both...
View ArticleIndians 6, White Sox 2: Josh Tomlin outpitches Chris Sale, remains unbeaten
CHICAGO: It didn’t really seem possible for Chris Sale to look human based off of his super-human-like previous six weeks in which no team could score more than two runs off of him.On Tuesday night,...
View ArticleUniversity of Akron scraps controversial contract for student success...
The University of Akron said Wednesday it will let its $840,000 contract with Trust Navigator expire because the fledgling student coaching program didn’t help its fall-to-spring student retention...
View ArticleAkron’s Primo’s Deli proved to be a primo spot to take the family
I don’t know about you, but I have plenty of things to do this weekend.Our calendar is already full, and with five kids, it doesn’t take long to fill each of those darn little blocks.Just the other...
View ArticleGuy Bordo: An exit to The Greater Good for UA and Akron
I attended with interest the May 19 Faculty Senate meeting in which Scott Scarborough participated. The story the next day in the Akron Beacon Journal (“Meeting doesn’t change UA faculty opinions”) was...
View ArticleAkron starts taking down Stage Left building in downtown
Stage Left is coming down.Demolition started Wednesday morning to tear down the long-empty, 96-year-old building next to Akron’s Civic Theatre in the heart of the city’s downtown on South Main...
View ArticleMedical marijuana legalization edges closer to law in Ohio
COLUMBUS: A proposal to legalize medical marijuana in Ohio narrowly cleared the state Senate on Wednesday over the opposition of some Republicans and Democrats.The final bill, which cleared the Senate...
View ArticleAkron mother pleads guilty to charges stemming from scalding of her...
An Akron mother pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges stemming from the scalding of her 2½-year-old daughter last year.Monique T. Smith, 26, pleaded guilty to felonious assault and child endangering,...
View ArticleCommunity honors fallen friend with basketball fundraiser
May 18 was like most days for 34-year-old Kimyata “Coop” Cooper Jr. After calling his dad to plan on watching the basketball game later that day, he finished up his work at Salvation Army and headed to...
View ArticleBrowns notebook: Terrelle Pryor says he’s ‘10 times’ better as a wide...
BEREA: Terrelle Pryor’s confidence as a wide receiver has grown so much this offseason that the big, athletic former quarterback no longer views his transition as such.“I don’t even call it a...
View ArticleUniversity of Akron opts out of renewing contract with TrustNavigator after...
What did the University of Akron get for its $840,000 contract with a Cleveland-area startup company that pledged to boost its freshman class retention?Seven extra students retained — at a cost of...
View ArticleMarla Ridenour: Cavaliers shed their sense of entitlement, go from dormant to...
CLEVELAND: It struck me while watching the first quarter of Oklahoma City’s victory over Golden State on Tuesday. The Warriors came out with the same sense of entitlement the Cavaliers had shown...
View ArticleCavaliers notebook: Tristan Thompson angry with his performance against...
CLEVELAND: Cavaliers center Tristan Thompson was admittedly ticked off with his play of late.Thompson has been matched up on surging Toronto Raptors center Bismack Biyombo in the NBA Eastern Conference...
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