Trump’s tone, rhetoric drives Clinton supporters home from local Democratic...
He wasn’t the first to leave early, but as Democrats sneaked through the kitchen and out the door, the tall man in the brown leather coat made a beeline for the exit.“I can’t handle it anymore,” he...
View ArticlePolice: Ohio woman, son charged after former boyfriend’s body found in trunk
CLEVELAND: A woman and her son have been charged with aggravated murder after police say the decomposing body of the woman’s former boyfriend was found stuffed in the trunk of a car parked behind her...
View ArticleIndians 7, Tigers 4: Indians clinch AL Central title
DETROIT: Cleveland sports fans can keep on celebrating — for the first time since 2007, the Indians are American League Central champions. Needing only one win in the final week of the regular season,...
View ArticleBob Dyer: Rooting for the Cavs to stay hungry, my friend
I hope the players don’t feel the same way I do. If they do, the Cavs are in for a long season.I am satisfied. I am fulfilled. My 52-year hunger has been sated.The weekslong celebratory orgy that...
View ArticleVandals draw stick figures engaging in sex acts on cars, houses in Richfield...
Richfield Police are asking the public’s help to identify vandals who spray-painted crude drawings of stick figures in sexual positions on cars, driveways and houses over the weekend.All the vandalism...
View ArticleDebate analysis: Clinton uses gibes and a hold on policy to school Trump
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y.: Donald Trump left the protective bubble of his partisans on Monday and learned a well-established truth about campaigns: The rhetoric that draws rapturous applause at rallies doesn’t...
View ArticleFact check: Trump, Clinton deny their own words in debate
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s habit of peddling hype and fabrication emerged unabated in the first presidential debate while Hillary Clinton played it cautiously in her statements, though not without...
View ArticleCavaliers’ LeBron James to stand for national anthem, admits fears for...
INDEPENDENCE: At the ESPY Awards on July 14, the Cavaliers’ LeBron James stood alongside Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade as the four spoke about gun violence, police brutality against...
View ArticleAct now to keep stink bugs out
Remember those stink bugs that drove you crazy last winter?Now’s the time to act if you don’t want a repeat appearance.Fall is when brown marmorated stink bugs make their way into buildings in search...
View ArticleDeputies arrest man accused of robbing three people at gunpoint in Ravenna...
The Portage County Sheriff’s Office thanked the public for helping find a man accused of robbing three people at gunpoint early Tuesday morning.Elijah K. Sanders, 23, has been charged with three counts...
View ArticleOhio Attorney General sues Akron car dealership over “unfair and deceptive”...
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine on Monday sued a now-defunct used car dealership in Akron on allegations that the dealer employed “unfair and deceptive” business practices that cost consumers...
View ArticleUnhappy Target customers send strong message on pill bottles
Longtime customers of Target’s pharmacies are finding a change in pill bottle design hard to swallow.After CVS began operating Target’s drugstores earlier this year, distraught customers have been...
View ArticleDiffering reports on open enrollment cause conflict for Coventry official
Coventry Local Schools Superintendent Rusty Chaboudy is conflicted about what to do with the district’s 755 open enrollment students.“We’ve got the state auditor telling us to dismantle open enrollment...
View ArticleDeputy charged with beating 2 ATV riders after chase fired
JEFFERSON, OHIO: A Northeast Ohio sheriff’s deputy has been fired after a grand jury indicted him last week on charges he beat two all-terrain vehicle riders who prosecutors have said led authorities...
View ArticleCoach Tyronn Lue made sure Cavaliers got their money’s worth in NBA Finals
INDEPENDENCE: After the Cavaliers beat the Golden State Warriors in Game 5 of the NBA Finals, coach Tyronn Lue took up a collection. His team had just staved off elimination once and Lue believed...
View ArticleCavaliers notebook: With retirement of three NBA stars, LeBron James says his...
INDEPENDENCE: The NBA lost three future hall of famers in one summer when Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett joined Kobe Bryant in retirement. To LeBron James, that means he’s next. “It feels like our era is...
View ArticleFormer Kent State University President Brage Golding dead at 96
Former Kent State University President Brage Golding has died.Golding, 96, served as president of the university from 1977 to 1982. He died Aug. 24 at his home in California.“On behalf of the Kent...
View ArticleOhio rapper gets 15-year sentence in child porn, music video case
COLUMBUS: An Ohio rapper who federal authorities say recorded sexually explicit footage of teen girls and edited the footage into music videos has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.Eric Chavis...
View ArticleStark State College to temporarily open Akron campus in Brown Mackie College...
One college is moving out and another is moving in.Stark State College plans to temporarily open its new Akron campus in January in the building that currently houses Brown Mackie College. Brown Mackie...
View ArticleMan tells Akron police he was robbed of $5,000 when he met man supposedly...
An Akron man who went to buy a motorcycle he found on Craigslist reported to Akron police that he was robbed of $5,000 Monday morning by four men who held him at gunpoint.The 22-year-old man said one...
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