Indians’ Matt Treanor found perfect partner in Olympic volleyball star Misty...
GOODYEAR, Ariz.: When Indians catcher Matt Treanor met his future wife, three-time Olympic beach volleyball gold medalist Misty May-Treanor, he was 27, broke, and living with his parents down the...
View ArticleNo longer banished, Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon receives chance to...
Josh Gordon’s long-awaited opportunity to resurrect his NFL career arrived Monday with the Browns on the brink of kicking off training camp.NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell notified Gordon he has been...
View ArticleSpirit Airlines coming to Akron-Canton Airport
Akron-Canton Airport has spirit — Spirit Airlines, that is.Mark Kopczak, the vice president of network planning for Spirit Airlines, announced the low-cost carrier’s arrival during a news conference...
View ArticleBetty Lin-Fisher: Growth of mobile banking doesn’t negate physical branches,...
Even though more than half, about 58 percent, of PNC customers don’t walk into a branch for their banking needs, the executive in charge of the bank’s retail and consumer banking operations says she...
View Article24 treated for overdoses at Northeast Ohio rap festival
COLUMBUS: Two dozen concert goers in Northeast Ohio suffered overdoses Saturday after they ate marijuana-laced candy.No fatalities were reported at the Ohio Dreams sports camp complex in Butler, about...
View ArticleWhile wave of overdoses grips Summit County, grass-roots efforts to fight...
In the month since a dangerous elephant sedative was introduced to the Akron drug market, more people have overdosed on drugs than during the previous six months combined.But for many Summit County...
View ArticlePoll: Young adults support new efforts to curb gun violence
CHICAGO: LaShun Roy supports a ban on semi-automatic weapons and more comprehensive background checks. But the 21-year-old gun owner from rural Texas doesn’t consider gun-control measures a top...
View ArticleIlene Shapiro is Summit County’s first female county executive
Whether divine intervention or fate, Ilene Shapiro now thinks there’s a bigger reason she didn’t run for Akron mayor last year.Many of her supporters urged her to run, saying she’d make a great...
View ArticleAkron police struggle to cope with dramatic spike in overdose cases
Akron police said it’s been a chaotic and overwhelming month since an elephant sedative surfaced in the drug market.“It’s mass chaos,” said Akron police Detective Mike Schmidt.Detective Tim Harvey...
View ArticleBrowns notebook: Coach Hue Jackson reveals he masterminded Terrelle Pryor’s...
COLUMBUS: Terrelle Pryor caught a jump ball from Robert Griffin III over cornerback K’Waun Williams for a 5-yard touchdown and burned defensive back Mikell Everette on a go route to haul in a 75-yard...
View ArticleBrowns coach Hue Jackson says Robert Griffin III playing with more...
COLUMBUS: Browns coach Hue Jackson will formally name Robert Griffin III his starting quarterback in the next few days, and it’ll feel like great timing because Griffin is on a hot streak.Griffin had...
View ArticleBrowns training camp snapshot (Day 8): Rookie wide receiver Corey Coleman...
Saturday’s developments• A day after rookie wide receiver Corey Coleman stole the spotlight during a live scrimmage in Berea by catching four passes and a touchdown, he stood on the sideline at Ohio...
View ArticleNo exit from the interchange
Of all things, a shortage of detour signs is holding up work on Akron’s central interchange, where Interstates 76, 77 and state Route 8 come together. Tens of thousands of motorists navigate this...
View Article15 breast-feeding moms and their children join Global Big Latch On in Akron
Rosie Dempsey was born tongue-tied. The thin piece of skin connecting the bottom of her tongue to the floor of her mouth was too short, making it difficult for her to nurse last year.She was also...
View ArticleRyan Lewis: Indians, Tigers turn AL Central into two-team race
A once wide-open American League Central division has become the Wild Wild West at high noon.Prior to the season, the Central was generally viewed as a cluster of potential contenders, tightly wound...
View ArticleCincinnati police fatally shoot robbery suspect on downtown square
CINCINNATI: Cincinnati police shot and killed a robbery suspect on a downtown square early Sunday, in the department’s third fatal encounter with a suspect this year.The man was shot on Government...
View ArticleOhio teen found in Grand Teton in protective custody
MOOSE, Wyo.: A 16-year-old girl who went missing in Grand Teton National Park and fled when authorities tried to rescue her is in protective custody and will be reunited with her parents.Fauna Jackson...
View ArticleMan arrested for drug-laced candy that made 24 ill in Ohio
COLUMBUS: A Michigan man has been arrested on a felony drug-trafficking charge after two dozen concertgoers became ill from eating THC-laced candies at a northeast Ohio rap music festival.The Richland...
View ArticleHusband of Lake Township woman hurt by dropped rock dies at 55
COLUMBUS: Randy Budd, the husband of a former teacher in Perry Local Schools who was critically injured when a rock was dropped on her car from a highway overpass, has died. He was 55.Budd died of a...
View ArticleTwins see double at Twins Days festival
Although they won one of the “most alike” twin contests Sunday, their faces almost as indiscernible as their matching Buzz Lightyear costumes, Jaydyn and Jaudyn would argue that they’re different —...
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