Nate Ulrich: Eight reasons for optimism, concern about Browns to be tested in...
With the first 11 practices of Browns training camp in the books, plenty of theories have been developed about the team’s strengths and weaknesses.Those ideas, though, have yet to be tested in earnest....
View ArticleNext in the heroin crisis
With U.S. Sen. Rob Portman taking a leading role, Congress recently passed and President Obama signed into law a bill aimed at helping communities across the country take a comprehensive approach to...
View ArticleSummit County holding child-support-help event Friday
Summit County will hold a one-stop event Friday to help parents meet child support obligations, reinstate a suspended driver’s license and resolve arrest warrants. The event, Child Support Solutions...
View ArticleYMCA to award memberships to drug addicts who are six months sober
The Akron Area YMCA will offer complimentary memberships to 20 drug addicts who maintain six months of sobriety through drug court programs at the city and county levels.“Y-STRONG,” as the program is...
View ArticleTwo companies move into downtown Akron’s AES Building
The AES Building at 388 S. Main St. in downtown Akron is getting two new tenants, including a company that is relocating its division headquarters and research and development operations from elsewhere...
View ArticleAkron police lieutenant fined, given suspended jail sentence for driving...
Akron’s 2015 Police Officer of the Year, who drove while intoxicated with a gun in the vehicle last month, was fined $400 and warned she will be jailed if she gets into any more trouble with the...
View ArticleOhio Shakespeare Festival expanding to year-round operation including...
Ohio Shakespeare Festival will become a company that operates year-round by Oct. 1, once it takes over the theater space at Greystone Hall that was previously the home of Actors’ Summit.The...
View ArticleStreetsboro high school marching band suspended indefinitely amid hazing...
STREETSBORO: Administrators in Streetsboro City Schools have indefinitely suspended the marching band program pending an investigation into allegations of hazing at band camp last weekend.High school...
View ArticleFaculty of UA theater arts degree program makes pitch for a comeback
The University of Akron wants to bring back its theater arts degree program by attracting theater majors with a focus on entrepreneurship, physical theater and film studies.The degree program was...
View ArticleJust how extreme can amusement park rides go?
Taller.Faster.More extreme.It seems when it comes to roller coasters and water slides, the sky is the limit.With the roller coaster capital of the world right in our own backyard with Cedar Point,...
View ArticleUniversity of Akron football: Ohio State transfer Warren Ball likely to start...
For Warren Ball, the final proof came when the University of Akron football team put on the pads for the first time for Friday morning’s practice session.Monday, the opening of camp, was the first...
View ArticleIndians 13, Angels 3: Indians tie club record for stolen bases in victory
CLEVELAND: The Indians ran wild on the Los Angeles Angels and tied a nearly 100-year-old club record in a 13-3 win Friday night at Progressive Field. The Indians had the green light against Angels...
View ArticleBrowns notebook: Terrelle Pryor shines in preseason opener despite calf...
GREEN BAY, WIS.: A few days ago, it looked as if Browns wide receiver Terrelle Pryor would miss the beginning of the preseason for the second consecutive summer.But fortunately for Pryor, his...
View ArticlePackers 17, Browns 11: RG3, Browns’ first-team offense have moments but fail...
GREEN BAY, WIS.: Practice doesn’t always make perfect.Browns quarterback Robert Griffin III has yet to throw an interception during team drills in training camp, but he had one in a 17-11 loss to the...
View ArticleAfter rapid rise to prominence, UA runner Clayton Murphy’s Olympic dream now...
When Clayton Murphy received a text that a package had been delivered for him last June, the then-University of Akron sophomore might have set a personal record dashing from a meeting to his...
View ArticleThree Kent State golfers get ready to play in U.S. Amateur
Road trips are part of the competitive golfing life, from the early days of carpooling crosstown for a local junior event to boarding airplanes and crisscrossing the country to compete on a higher...
View ArticleThousands compete in Goodyear Half Marathon & 10K
AKRON: More than 2,600 runners from 26 states hit the pavement Saturday morning for the 2016 Goodyear Half Marathon & 10KIt was the second leg of the Akron Children’s Hospital Akron Marathon Race...
View ArticleOhio fugitive arrested in New Mexico officer’s death
Authorities don’t yet know why a New Mexico police officer in a small village famous for its green chili and not much more pulled over two Ohio murder suspects before being gunned down.But the daytime...
View ArticleU.S.-backed Syrian force captures key Islamic State stronghold of Manbij
BEIRUT: On the streets of Manbij, men chanted slogans against the Islamic State group or clipped their beards and women walked with their faces uncovered for the first time in over 2½ years, hours...
View ArticleBrowns notebook: Coach Hue Jackson says he ‘would guarantee’ Cody Kessler’s...
Browns coach Hue Jackson is convinced his players didn’t laugh at rookie quarterback Cody Kessler’s blooper Friday night in a 17-11 preseason-opening loss to the Green Bay Packers.On first-and-10 at...
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