Buchtel graduate to be featured in rap competition show ‘One Shot’ on BET
An Akron transplant will represent his current home and his birthplace on Black Entertainment Television’s new rap competition show One Shot, premiering at 10 p.m. Tuesday. Our hometown hero is Keith...
View ArticleRobin Swoboda: My food garden runneth over
We did it again. Last year I said “never again,” but we did it again. We planted a garden.In 2015, nothing grew but enough tomatoes to make one small pan of tomato sauce that cost me a lot of time and...
View ArticleAkron Beacon Journal warns residents of subscription scam
The Akron Beacon Journal is warning people that a savvy salesman is walking door-to-door peddling fake newspaper subscriptions.Shaun Schweitzer, vice president of the newspaper’s circulation and...
View ArticleEagle Scout aims high, builds dog park for all as a salute to police K-9s
BRIMFIELD TWP.: Police Sgt. David Knarr, squinting into Saturday morning sun, held a U.S. flag neatly folded into a triangle. A Labradoodle a few feet away barked at a tiny white dog trying to hide...
View ArticleLocal man’s determination shows how hard it is to run for president
Richard Duncan can’t remember whether he voted for Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan.He didn’t particularly like either, as iconic as each president might be for the major political parties. Duncan, 63,...
View ArticleOhio State football: Five things to know about the Buckeyes’ 77-10 victory...
1. Running up the score?The Falcons won the Mid-American Conference title last season and have played in three consecutive MAC championship games. Yet the Buckeyes posted a school-record 776 yards...
View ArticleBreaking down the 2016 Browns’ initial 53-man roster and cuts by position
All NFL teams were required to trim their rosters from 75 to 53 players by 4 p.m. Saturday. Below is a breakdown of the players the Browns kept and the ones they released during the league’s annual...
View ArticleBrowns notebook: Punting problem seemingly solved with ex-Broncos standout...
The Browns lacked a proven punter after trading three-time Pro Bowl selection Andy Lee, but they secured one Saturday by signing Britton Colquitt to a one-year contract.The Browns shipped Lee and a...
View ArticleBrowns’ new regime trades inherited bust Justin Gilbert, shows supreme...
In one fell swoop, the new Harvard-flavored front office of the Browns reminded everyone how poorly the franchise’s previous regimes drafted and expressed supreme confidence in the players it picked...
View ArticleMarla Ridenour: After first-drive interception, J.T. Barrett shows why he’s...
COLUMBUS: J.T. Barrett emerged from the roughest year of his football life unscarred.Not that Ohio State’s junior quarterback is considered fragile. But all that transpired during the 2015 season could...
View ArticleUniversity of Akron 47, VMI 24: Passing game offsets defensive woes in Zips’...
The University of Akron football team signaled that there is a lot of studying to do before next weekend’s game against Wisconsin.The Zips struggled to beat the Virginia Military Institute 47-24 at...
View ArticleBob Dyer: After an amazing comeback, the ultimate defeat
I wrote about Patrick Carrigan in February 2014.I wrote about him again in June 2014.I’m writing about him now because he’s dead.Everything I wrote about him the first two times caved in, swallowed up...
View ArticleHigh school scores, summaries and schedules — Sept. 3
FOOTBALLScoreboardSaturday’s ResultsCleveland Benedictine 35, Buchtel 27Western Reserve Academy 64, Oregon Cardinal Stritch 62Late FridayAUSTINTOWN FITCH 27, BRUNSWICK 20Brunswick 0 6 7 7 — 20Fitch 14...
View ArticleHigh school football / Cleveland Benedictine 35, Buchtel 27: Griffins’...
Buchtel persevered through a long afternoon of adversity and a seemingly insurmountable deficit and suddenly found itself in position for a most unlikely victory Saturday.The host Griffins finally ran...
View ArticleJCPenney donates Rolling Acres building to Akron; city officials still plan...
JCPenney has donated its former retail building at the long-vacant Rolling Acres Mall to the city, which plans to demolish it along with the remainder of the interior of the mall.The five former...
View ArticleHillary Clinton, Tim Kaine campaigning in Cleveland on Labor Day
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and running mate Sen. Tim Kaine will speak at a Labor Day celebration on Cleveland’s east side Monday afternoon. The event at Luke Easter Park — on the...
View ArticleOhio woman dies in crash while leaving high school reunion
CLEVELAND: A 49-year-old Ohio woman died in a car crash on Cleveland’s east side while leaving her high school reunion party.Cleveland.com reports Shirley Duncan-Barnes, of Maple Heights, was...
View ArticleBrown Mackie College to close West Akron location Oct. 31; ITT Tech halts new...
Brown Mackie College is closing its West Akron location Oct. 31 after failing to renew its lease at 755 White Pond Drive, Beacon Journal news partner NewsNet5 reported.The privately owned, for-profit...
View ArticleLocal history: Unearthed Copley headstone is mystery beyond grave
While clearing an overgrown field, a Copley Township landowner has unearthed a mystery that goes beyond the grave.Huce Beach Jr., 70, of Akron, discovered a 19th century headstone buried in underbrush...
View ArticleThings to Do, Sept. 5: Air Show in Cleveland; parade in Barberton;...
Drive up for Sausage AutobahnThe Cleveland Oktoberfest concludes at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds in Berea. There’s music all day, beer (of course), a “Sausage Autobahn” and lots of other food....
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