FCC delays vote on much-disputed rules on cable boxes
NEW YORK: Federal regulators delayed a decision Thursday on requiring cable and satellite TV companies to make free apps to eliminate the need for cable boxes.Federal Communications Commission Chairman...
View ArticleUA’s EXL Center will continue
The resignations of two key players at the University of Akron’s Experiential Learning Center for Entrepreneurship and Civic Engagement Center, will not stop the center from continuing its mission, say...
View ArticleBarberton couple bringing nanobrewery to the Magic City
BARBERTON: Jay Graham is a big guy.He has tattoos.And he loves heavy metal.So it makes sense — insert sarcasm here — that he asked for a bunny to be featured in the logo for his upcoming Magic City...
View ArticleOhio man charged with killing adult daughter has $4.5M bond
ROCKY RIVER: A man charged with murder in the fatal shooting of his adult daughter at their suburban Cleveland home had his bond increased Thursday to $4.5 million by a judge after a prosecutor said...
View ArticleHigh school scores, summaries and schedules — Sept. 29
FOOTBALLAP pollCOLUMBUS (AP) — How a state panel of sports writers and broadcasters rates Ohio high school football teams in the third weekly Associated Press poll of 2016, by OHSAA divisions, with...
View ArticleJosh Gordon’s career with Browns likely done after he steps away from...
BEREA: Josh Gordon isn’t expected to play for the Browns ever again after the latest disappointing detour in his career.The ultra-talented but troubled wide receiver announced Thursday he’s stepping...
View ArticleBrowns notebook: Kicker Cody Parkey confident he’ll rebound: ‘We’re going to...
BEREA: Cody Parkey could have been kicked to the curb, but the Browns stood by him after his disastrous debut with them.The kicker made just 3-of-6 field goals Sunday in a 30-24 overtime loss to the...
View ArticleBoy arrested for bringing BB gun to Ohio high school
MIDDLETOWN, OHIO: Officials say a teenager who took a BB gun to a southwest Ohio high school was arrested after a classmate tipped off the staff.The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reports the BB gun...
View ArticleOhio asks 12,000 doctors to comply with pain pill monitoring
COLUMBUS: Some 12,000 Ohio doctors are being warned they appear to be violating a 2015 law that requires them to check patients’ prescription histories against a state website before recommending...
View Article2 arrests, some schools closed amid clown threats in Ohio
CINCINNATI: Two people were arrested and some Ohio schools were closed Friday amid a rash of reported threats involving clowns against students in three suburban Cincinnati districts.A reported early...
View ArticlePeninsula councilman charged with criminal damaging after camera removed from...
A Peninsula councilman has been charged with misdemeanor criminal damaging after being accused of removing a video camera in council chambers.Michael Matusz, 44, will be arraigned Oct. 6 in Stow...
View ArticlePolice: Autopsies done for sisters found dead in Seychelles
VICTORIA, Seychelles: Two American sisters found dead in their tropical island villa while vacationing in Seychelles died of excess fluid in their lungs, according to police in the African archipelago...
View ArticlePositivity goes a long way and gets runner to the finish line
When a Pittsburgh woman hit the 11.4-mile mark of the Akron Marathon on Saturday, she was almost ready to call it quits.But as Barbara Ford, 57, hobbled past one of 13 Hero Zones manned by Akron...
View ArticleRare LeBron rookie card now up for auction could fetch $200,000 plus
Owning a piece of a hometown King will cost you a princely sum.What is being billed as the “world’s rarest and most valuable” LeBron James basketball trading card is up for auction. With the clock...
View ArticleBrowns plan to part with Josh Gordon: ‘We’re going to move on,’ coach Hue...
BEREA: When the Browns part with Josh Gordon, it’ll just be a formality, and coach Hue Jackson spoke Friday as if the organization is ready to move on. “I think what we need to do is just close that...
View ArticleBob Dyer: ‘Nate the Great’ celebrated at Summit Lake
Sitting in chairs on the gym floor where Akron’s best basketball player learned the game, they came to honor the memory of Akron’s second-best basketball player — and one of its all-time nicest...
View ArticleHillary Clinton coming to Akron on Monday for voter registration event
Hillary Clinton will visit Akron on Monday for the first time since winning the Democratic nomination for president, her campaign announced Friday.She plans to attend an Ohio Democratic Party voter...
View ArticleStark State belongs in Akron
The city that likes to collaborate failed to do so — again. That is one takeaway from the surprising decision at the State Controlling Board on Monday to pull from its agenda approval of funding for...
View ArticleHigh school football Friday night scoreboard
Friday’s GamesNon-leagueMassillon 38, Austintown Fitch 21Buckeye 35, Wellington 21Sandy Valley 41, East Canton 7Ellet 48, Green 34LaGrange Keystone 16, Black River 7Canton Central Catholic 31,...
View ArticleRavenna cemetery accused of failing to provide headstones, vaults, other...
The Ohio Attorney General’s Office is suing two cemeteries – one in Ravenna – for selling but failing to provide gravestones and other memorial items to numerous customers.The lawsuit accuses Grandview...
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