Akron nightclub legend Arnold Shapiro planning his last Red’s Reunion
For three decades, Red’s Bar and its owner Arnold Shapiro welcomed generations of revelers, dance-floor demons, barflies, workers needing a friendly, after-hours drink,comically hairy male strippers...
View ArticleBob Dyer: Inner demons can paralyze
Not often do I get an email that drops my jaw. But that’s what happened after I wrote about a nasty obituary that appeared in my favorite newspaper.The obit was for a Cuyahoga Falls woman who had...
View ArticleJury selection begins in Eric Hendon’s triple-murder trial; Hendon faces...
Jury selection began — for the second time — in Eric Hendon’s triple- murder trial Wednesday.Summit County Common Pleas Judge Amy Corrigall Jones dismissed the first jury last October when defense...
View ArticleEast Akron building remodeled for new battered women’s shelter at Hope &...
Antoinette Thompson was dumbfounded when she walked into a finished bedroom at the new Summit County shelter for domestic violence in East Akron.The room was furnished with one bed, two bunk beds, a...
View ArticleAfter keeping distance for years, Browns to honor legendary running back Jim...
In the case of the Browns and NFL icon Jim Brown, apparently time really does heal all wounds.Of course, a change in leadership didn’t hurt, either.Six years after an ugly rift developed between the...
View ArticleAkron man facing charges in 30 Wadsworth break-ins
A 35-year-old Akron man is in the Medina County Jail on one charge of burglary and facing additional charges in connection with 30 break-ins.Arrested was Joshua D. Born of Morgan Avenue.He was arrested...
View ArticleFather to parents about heroin addiction: ‘It’s not your kid until it is’
WADSWORTH: Rob Brandt doesn’t want any family to endure what his went through.His son, 20-year-old Robby, died in October 2011 of an accidental heroin overdose after a long struggle with addiction....
View ArticleMedina church aims to boost fellowship with possible gun range
MEDINA: This is partly a story about God and guns.But it’s mostly a peek into a small church trying to find new ways to involve its members and elected officials trying to balance the rights of...
View ArticleBubble soccer bounces its way into Akron area
I consider myself a soccer expert.I spent many years sitting on the sidelines cajoling each of my five children to stop picking the flowers and “KICK THE BALL!!!”So when the opportunity arose to climb...
View ArticleDC Ray Horton has unfinished business with Browns: ‘We are going to make a...
BEREA: A Browns fan approached Ray Horton in Nashville International Airport last year and told him Cleveland missed him.So now that Horton is back with the Browns for a second tour as their defensive...
View ArticleBrowns notebook: Pep Hamilton has head start on evaluating Jared Goff: ‘I’m...
BEREA: New Browns associate head coach-offense Pep Hamilton hasn’t yet delved into studying the top three quarterbacks in this year’s draft class — California’s Jared Goff, North Dakota State’s Carson...
View ArticleCoventry man accused of break-ins is arrested after police chase
Summit County sheriff’s deputies on Wednesday arrested a man they say is responsible for a series of at least 12 break-ins and thefts from construction sites and businesses — including a car dealership...
View ArticleReview: Sweeping musical 'Aida' made intimate in richly sung Rubber City...
Rubber City Shakespeare Company has taken a risk producing its first musical — the epic Aida at that — and it has paid off as a legendary story of forbidden love ignites the Akron stage.This tiny...
View ArticleCavaliers 106, Bulls 95: LeBron James flirts with triple-double, Cavs beat...
CLEVELAND: LeBron James had 25 points, nine rebounds and nine assists and the Cavaliers capped an eventful trade deadline day with a 106-95 victory Thursday against the short-handed Chicago Bulls....
View ArticleNortheast Ohio braces for Republican National Convention this summer
With the bars closing at 4 a.m., the hotels packed, the roads and malls swarming with out-of-towners, protesters demonstrating and police and security stretched thin, the Republican National Convention...
View ArticleThree Firestone students suspended for drug possession following search,...
Three Firestone High School students were suspended Friday after a school resource officer found marijuana and drug-related paraphernalia in the school.The school was put into a short lockdown from...
View ArticleTwinsburg couple killed in Florida crash
BRADENTON, FLA.: Authorities and local media reported that three people — including two Northeast Ohio teachers — were killed Thursday in a crash on Interstate 75 in southwest Florida.The Florida...
View ArticleComic book Rubber City Comics finds new home in downtown Akron
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Superman, along with hundreds of other comic book heroes that are finally settled in their newly named Rubber City Comics home.The store, formerly known as Quaker Square...
View ArticleNewspaper story reunites old friends who shared a first automotive love
Back in the early 1940s, Kirk Reid and Bob Lynn shared a passion for a battered Model A station wagon.Together the two teenagers worked to fix up the jalopy, using junkyard parts to get it running....
View ArticleAkron will have its own regional headquarters for Huntington, post-merger
Huntington Bank’s Akron operations will be large enough to have its own regional headquarters after the proposed acquisition of FirstMerit.And total employment in the Akron area could someday exceed...
View Article