Akron Dish: La Loma in Akron grows from taco truck to buzz-generating...
This onetime Akron taco trailer has grown into a restaurant with food that has cooked up national attention.Earlier this month, Taqueria La Loma, on Akron’s east side at 459 Darrow Road, made “The Most...
View ArticleTrump has turned over tax returns — for lawsuits and loans
WASHINGTON: While Donald Trump won’t publicly release his income tax returns, the New York businessman has turned them over when it suited his needs — if he stood to make a profit, needed a loan or...
View ArticleSummit County addresses human trafficking in new juvenile court program that...
Where would the teenage girl be safe?That was the question Summit County Juvenile Court Judge Linda Tucci Teodosio and the girl’s mother were attempting to answer.The girl had run away again from her...
View ArticleMeet Mantua’s new millionaire: Queen of Hearts winner Terri Vechery
MANTUA: As the pot for the Queen of Hearts game eclipsed $1 million, fortune seekers began driving to Garrettsville with increasing regularity. Each week, they flooded SkyLane Bowling, exchanging...
View ArticleToo close for comfort? State senator says Stark State’s Akron campus could...
An Ohio Controlling Board member is worried that a proposed Akron campus for Stark State College could poach students from the University of Akron.The board deferred voting on the project this week...
View ArticleSuspect in custody after Massillon girl, 9, is abducted and sexually...
A man suspected of posing as a police officer so he could sexually assault a 9-year-old Massillon girl has been arrested by Fairfield County authorities, Beacon Journal news partner NewsNet5.com...
View ArticleGreen school district seeks money from tax deals
GREEN: City and school board officials are trying to reach an agreement over an alleged $1 million shortfall in payments to the district in lieu of taxes and another similar deal worth $1.1 million for...
View ArticleGreen may get a new lakeside eatery; owners of Sandy Beach Marina want to...
A new lakefront restaurant/bar could open next to Sandy Beach Marina off South Main Street in Green as soon as this spring.Jim Genovese and his wife, Zana, own the longtime Portage Lakes area marina at...
View ArticlePeople report being chased by clowns in 2 Ohio cities
GREENVILLE, OHIO: Police say they’ve received reports of individuals dressed as clowns chasing people in two western Ohio communities.That means that in recent weeks, people in at least seven states...
View ArticleBrowns notebook: Rookie QB Cody Kessler feels love from hometown, teammates...
BEREA: Rookie quarterback Cody Kessler relishes a chance to make his hometown of Bakersfield, Calif., proud in his second consecutive start for the Browns. On Wednesday, coach Hue Jackson ruled out...
View ArticleMan accused of abducting, raping 9-year-old Massillon girl was convicted of...
The man accused of abducting and sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl in Massillon on Monday was convicted in 1999 of raping his girlfriend and leaving her to die on the side of a Wyoming road, the...
View ArticleCourt upholds Ohio teacher’s conviction for showing violent movie
COLUMBUS: An Ohio appeals court has upheld the felony conviction of a former substitute teacher who was sentenced to three months in jail for showing a movie including graphic sex and violence to a...
View ArticlePolice seek men who attempted robbery near University of Akron campus
University of Akron Police are seeking the public’s help to locate a pair of men who allegedly assaulted and attempted to rob a man just south of campus on Wednesday night.The incident happened at...
View ArticleBob Dyer: At long last, a memorial service for Big Nate
Under the better-late-than-never category … a memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. today for NBA Hall of Famer Nate Thurmond.It will take place at the Summit Lake Community Center at 380 W. Crosier...
View ArticleDowntown tire factory-turned-apartment building to welcome visitors Saturday
One of Akron’s newest urban living options opens its doors to visitors Saturday.Cascade Lofts, an apartment building and gathering space in what was once a tire factory, will hold an open house from 5...
View ArticleMarla Ridenour: Heroics of waiver wire finds a flashback to Browns’ more...
BEREA: Reporters badgered former Browns coach Butch Davis weekly about cornerback Leigh Bodden before the team’s 2007 interception leader finally saw game action in 2003.During coach Bill Belichick’s...
View ArticleBig(ger) Mac: Akron’s Ronald McDonald House tripling in size; more than 8,511...
The first day Bill Considine walked into Akron Children’s Hospital as CEO in 1979, he saw parents sleeping in the lobby to be close to their sick children.Six years later, with a push from Considine...
View ArticleMan tells Facebook he is going to jail during Cuyahoga Falls standoff with...
An Akron man who barricaded himself inside a home in Cuyahoga Falls took to social media during a standoff with police Wednesday to let the world know he thought he was going to jail.Beacon Journal...
View ArticleSocial media “killer clown” threat circulates at Firestone High School in...
Panic on social media over the threat of a clown terrorizing Firestone High School resulted in a short police investigation on Thursday.Facebook users posted that the clown — which Akron Police Lt....
View ArticleAkron man charged in 27 West Virginia overdoses pleads not guilty
HUNTINGTON, W.VA.: A trial date has been set for an Akron man who has pleaded not guilty to heroin distribution in connection to 27 overdoses in a five-hour span in a single West Virginia city. The...
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