Browns notebook: Wide receivers Corey Coleman, Andrew Hawkins to miss...
BEREA: Quarterback Robert Griffin III will make his preseason debut with the Browns without three or four of the offense’s top wide receivers.Coach Hue Jackson ruled out rookie first-round draft pick...
View ArticleUS: 45,000 Islamic State fighters taken off battlefields
WASHINGTON: The military campaigns in Iraq and Syria have taken 45,000 enemy combatants off the battlefield and reduced the total number of Islamic State fighters to as few as 15,000, the top U.S....
View ArticleAs voters talk, the collapse of Donald Trump’s support becomes clearly audible
WASHINGTON: Many gauges measure the rapid drop in Donald Trump’s support this summer: Polls show the Republican nominee losing nationally and in most battleground states, prominent Republicans have...
View ArticleAkron wins $4.4 million grant to hire more firefighters
Akron has won a $4.4 million federal grant to hire 25 to 35 more firefighters.The city was notified Wednesday that it will receive the money through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Staffing...
View ArticleTrump, Clinton drive disgusted voters toward alternatives
The unpopular pair of presidential candidates is sending Ohioans in search of alternatives.And nothing will deter voters, not even the argument that a vote for a third-party candidate is a wasted...
View Article10 candidates file to run for U.S. president in Ohio
Ohioans this fall may get to pick from 10 candidates for president, including an Aurora man who’s admitted having no chance of winning in the past but will try again for a fourth time, a Northeast Ohio...
View ArticleOnline petition with 5,700 signatures supports mandatory ‘recovery camps’ for...
Following a huge showing at a heroin awareness rally in Akron this week, an online petition gathered signatures from more than 5,700 people demanding Ohio be placed in a state of emergency to fight the...
View ArticleHigh school football: Buchtel coach Ricky Powers optimistic about 2016 season...
Buchtel football coach Ricky Powers offered a new name for the Akron Public Schools athletic league Wednesday.“I call this the Big City Series like the Big Ten,” Powers said during the league’s annual...
View ArticleStudy: Pacific coast was route for colonizing the Americas
NEW YORK: Researchers have found new evidence that the first Americans migrated south from Alaska via the Pacific coast, rather than a route hundreds of miles inland along the Rocky Mountains.The...
View ArticleFormer Indians hurler Dave Burba now sharing his knowledge as pitching coach...
For 15 major league seasons, Dave Burba worked on figuring a way to get the opposition out. Now, the former Indians pitcher is doing the same thing, but it’s for his own players.The pitching coach for...
View ArticleWoman shot early Thursday at Akron apartment
A 19-year-old woman had non-life threatening injuries after accidentally being shot early Thursday morning at 1122 Ericcson Ave. in Akron.Akron police said the woman and three males were playing with a...
View ArticleCircle K store on Akron’s Kenmore Boulevard robbed
A robber got away with an undisclosed amount of money after holding up the Circle K convenience store Wednesday afternoon at 901 Kenmore Blvd., Akron, police said.The man, who the clerk was unable to...
View ArticleAkron homeowner, company frustrated by missing sidewalk
Barbara Lee was dumbfounded.She stood on the grassy devil strip along North Forge Street in Akron staring down where there once was a sandstone sidewalk.Now, there’s just sand, dirt, weeds and some...
View ArticleRussia strikes IS-held city in Syria
BEIRUT: The Russian military sent long-range bombers to strike a series of Islamic State targets in the group’s de facto capital of Raqqa on Thursday — a fresh round of airstrikes that Syrian activists...
View ArticleWright State to keep state money, despite dropping debate
DAYTON: Wright State University says it has no plans to repay the $220,000 in state money it received to upgrade security for the first presidential debate, which it pulled out of last month due to...
View ArticleStow pain clinic closing after court upholds sexual imposition conviction...
Summit Pain Specialists in Stow is permanently closing Monday after years of wrangling over a sex abuse scandal involving a doctor there. What prompted the clinic to close now is not entirely clear. No...
View ArticleFive teens charged in arson of Green’s historic one-room schoolhouse
Five teens have been arrested in connection with the arson fire Tuesday that destroyed Green’s historic one-room Lichtenwalter Schoolhouse.The Summit County Sheriff’s office announced the arrests...
View ArticleWoman dies following home invasion early Thursday in Akron
A 55-year-old woman died following a home invasion and robbery early Thursday morning in a Brittain Road apartment, Akron police reported.It’s unclear whether Melody Tomey, 55, of Cuyahoga Falls, died...
View ArticleCrowds line Kent streets to glimpse Budweiser Clydesdales on special delivery...
KENT:They’re big, they’re beautiful and they came back to Northeast Ohio equipped with beer.The world-famous Budweiser Clydesdales paraded through downtown Kent Thursday night to deliver cases of beer...
View ArticleHigh school notebook: Jim Borchik retires from Copley; Michael Chuppa takes...
The Athletic Department at Copley will have a new leader this year following the retirement of Jim Borchik and the hiring of Michael Chuppa to fill the position.Borchik also served as an assistant...
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