Indians moving Trevor Bauer to the bullpen to start 2016; Cody Anderson, Josh...
GOODYEAR, Ariz: Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer was relegated to the bullpen toward the end of last year, and that’s where he’ll be beginning the 2016 season.The Indians announced Wednesday that they will...
View ArticleOhio electric bills may increase: PUCO to vote on deal to help FirstEnergy...
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio intends to vote Thursday on a controversial energy deal being promoted by Akron’s FirstEnergy Corp. that would boost customers’ electric bills by keeping two...
View ArticleNo April Fool’s Day joke — one of the warmest Marches ever to give way to snow
Ah... March, we will have warm thoughts of you as we freeze our keisters off in April.Although the final chapter of our weather for the month will not be written until the strike of midnight on...
View ArticleState panel approves FirstEnergy’s request; company says electric bills will...
Electric bills for FirstEnergy Corp.’s 1.9 million residential customers in northern Ohio were expected to increase if the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved a deal to keep two older,...
View ArticleJeffrey Dahmer’s childhood home for rent during Republican convention
Visitors looking for a place to stay during the Republican National Convention have a notorious site among their choices: Jeffrey Dahmer’s childhood home. The Bath Township house is one of dozens of...
View ArticleRobbery suspect arrested in highway standoff after urinating on side of road
Seville police arrested a man following a 45-minute highway standoff when the man left his vehicle willingly so he could urinate on the side of the road, according to reports.Brett Filous, 35, of Lodi,...
View ArticleStow and Munroe Falls ready for their biennial showcase
STOW: What’s special about Stow and Munroe Falls?The neighboring cities get together every two years to remind folks of the answer.The Stow-Munroe Falls Community Showcase this weekend will feature...
View ArticleSummit County to launch dialogue on mental health and mental illness
Summit County Executive Russ Pry is launching a campaign to boost awareness of local mental health and mental illness.The county executive used his ninth annual State of the County speech Thursday to...
View ArticleHigh school scores, summaries and schedules — March 31
TENNISCOPLEY 5, WESTLAKE 0Singles: Aten (C) d. Jhaveri 6-3, 6-2; Garcia (C) d. Dinchman 6-0, 6-1; Du (C) d. Horn 6-3, 6-2.Doubles: Kromalic-Moore (C) d. O’Mears-Kripekar 6-0, 6-2; Nabors-Muthigi (C) d....
View ArticleCavaliers notebook: Team supports Kyrie Irving during social media ordeal...
CLEVELAND: LeBron James and Cavs coach Tyronn Lue expressed support for Kyrie Irving during his public social media ordeal involving his ex-girlfriend. “He’s got my support,” James said. “And he knows...
View ArticleThings to Do, April 1: Sauerkraut boulder, blimp stunt, Black Keys polka and...
For starters, have a ball Help make the world’s largest sauerkraut ball! Fans of the famous Akron appetizer are invited to bring bags of kraut and other ingredients to be combined in five specially...
View ArticleCoroner: Man found in Ohio river probably dead before he went into water
COLUMBUS: A coroner says a man whose body was found in a central Ohio river was probably dead before he went into the water.Franklin County’s coroner says there is a “high probability” that Joseph...
View ArticleBrowns notebook: Josh McCown says he’s preparing to help Cleveland but knows...
Josh McCown acknowledged in a series of interviews Thursday that his days with the Browns could be numbered after the team signed fellow quarterback Robert Griffin III last week.McCown became...
View ArticleCavaliers 107, Nets 87: LeBron passes Dominique Wilkins on career scoring...
CLEVELAND: LeBron James is still soaring — across the court and up the record books. Both facts are important and pleasing to the Cavaliers.James scored 24 points to move into 12th place on the NBA’s...
View ArticleGoogle April Fool’s prank boomerangs
NEW YORK: Google is acknowledging that it pranked itself after an April Fool’s Day Gmail tweak angered some people who use Google’s email for work.The company added a button to its email service that...
View ArticleCampus smoke-free proposal up for vote at University of Akron on April 12
Efforts to make the University of Akron campus smoke-free in the near future may go up in a puff of smoke.The results of a recent campus survey on the school’s smoking policy don’t support a ban on all...
View ArticleOld welding shop in Cuyahoga Falls transformed into wide-open work space
CUYAHOGA FALLS: If the folks at Triad Communications want to throw a party for clients, they can just roll their office furniture out of the way.If they want to work together on a project, they can...
View ArticleKim Hone-McMahan: Nearly 1,000 miles from home, columnist used Internet to...
This is about Freddie and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad weekend. Freddie is a 3-year-old miniature golden doodle [part golden retriever and part miniature poodle]. You know the kind — the...
View ArticleCleveland Indians to power Progressive Field with only wind-driven electricity
Akron’s FirstEnergy Corp. will totally power the Cleveland Indians’ Progressive Field with wind power. The two organizations announced the deal Friday at the stadium in downtown Cleveland. The...
View ArticleNew LeBron TV show coming in August, featuring local entrepreneurs
The latest TV project from LeBron James’ company has an air date. Cleveland Hustles, a reality series announced in January, will premiere Wednesday, Aug. 24, at 10 p.m. on CNBC. According to CNBC,...
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