Pickup truck hits school bus in Canton, injuring four private school students...
A pickup truck collided with a Canton school bus Wednesday afternoon, sending four schoolchildren and an adult to the hospital with minor injuries.Police are reporting the four children attend Our Lady...
View ArticleGreen wants $8.5 million federal grant for road projects
GREEN: City Council has given approval to Mayor Dick Norton to seek $8.5 million in federal grant funding to improve or construct several roadway projects over the next several years.Also during its...
View ArticlePublic students told marriage prevents STDs and incest, rape no excuse for...
Atheists have asked a Wayne County public school to offer more balanced sex education after a faith-based group allegedly told students that marriage prevents sexual diseases and adoption is the only...
View ArticlePrivate school caps off $6.6 million campaign with opening of...
Administrators at Archbishop Hoban High School had avoided a major capital campaign for years.In 2000, the school in Akron asked for donations to add a second gymnasium, a concourse and the iconic...
View ArticleDetails emerge about victims of Tuesday’s plane crash in Akron
SOME NAMES IDENTIFIEDAuthorities were not releasing the names of the nine people killed in Tuesday’s Akron plane crash until they could positively identify them, but family members and others were...
View ArticleInsomnia may have saved life of registered nurse who lived on top floor of...
On most days, Kayleigh Scarpitti is sleeping after working the night shift at Akron Children’s Hospital. But for some reason Tuesday, the registered nurse was restless, decided to crawl out of bed and...
View ArticleSaved by Hot Pockets: Akron apartment dweller misses plane crash by minutes
A pair of Hot Pockets saved his life.Jason Bartley’s spur-of-the-moment purchase of a pizza Hot Pocket and a breakfast Hot Pocket kept him away from his apartment a few minutes longer than he had...
View ArticleAny other day of week, resident would have been home when plane crashed into...
Beth Montgomery was sitting inside the Pizza Pan restaurant in Akron’s Ellet neighborhood when strangers arrived carrying bags of clothes and other items. She wiped tears from her eyes, hidden behind...
View ArticleWeather may have contributed to deadly Akron plane crash, is among factors...
The weather is among the factors that investigators will examine to determine the cause of a plane crash that killed all nine people on board Tuesday afternoon in Akron.They also will look into reports...
View ArticleObama awards Medal of Honor to Army captain
WASHINGTON: An Army captain who shoved a suicide bomber to the ground and away from his security detail became the nation’s newest Medal of Honor recipient Thursday as President Barack Obama credited...
View ArticleWitness says murder defendant in 1985 case turned pale, “speechless” when...
Summit County authorities decided to exhume the body of Margaret Purk four years ago after discussions with the detective leading the investigation of her death.It was done in September 2011, but in...
View ArticleUA students join thousands across nation to demand free public college, no...
Seven University of Akron students marched against student loan debt Thursday as gusts of wind ripped neon protest signs out of their hands on a cold, dreary day.The meager group joined thousands in...
View ArticleFBI charge, arrest Akron man for allegedly threatening lives of U.S. soldiers
Beacon Journal staff writerAn FBI task force has arrested an Akron man suspected of using social media to urge people to kill 100 U.S. soldiers. An armed U.S. marshal led Terrence J. McNeil, 25, of...
View ArticleLATEST NEWS: Investigators recover twin engines, review cockpit voice recorder
Federal investigators have removed both engines from the wreckage of a private charter jet that crashed into an Akron apartment complex Tuesday afternoon.The two engines are being sent to the...
View ArticleJudge refuses to dismiss federal labor lawsuit against Ernest Angley
A federal judge on Friday refused to dismiss a government lawsuit against television evangelist Ernest Angley and his organization’s Cathedral Buffet Inc. on charges that they violated minimum wage,...
View ArticleEvidence shows pregnant woman was strangled from behind in 1985, examiner...
Summit County’s deputy medical examiner told a jury Friday that victims strangled from behind with a ligature typically have bruises in the lower back.Dr. Dorothy E. Dean, a forensic pathologist for 16...
View ArticleDan Auerbach’s band The Arcs, visiting Paris on Friday, says it is safe amid...
KEYS’ Auerbach, Arcs SAY THEY’RE safe Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach and his band The Arcs signaled via Instagram that the group is safe after visiting Paris on Friday night, the same night that...
View ArticleLake Township woman, pets killed in early morning fire
A Saturday morning fire in Lake Township that claimed the life of a woman is under investigation by the Uniontown police and fire departments and state fire marshals.The woman and her daughter, who was...
View ArticleLocal girls test their science and engineering skills
When a panel of inventors took questions from the audience at the University of Akron on Saturday morning, audience members asked what a patent cost, how to get funding for a project and what was the...
View ArticleAuerbach, band “horrified” by Paris attacks, “stunned” by what they saw there
Black Keys co-founder Dan Auerbach and his band the Arcs were still absorbing the horrors of the Paris attacks Saturday, and noting similarities to the venue they played the night before and the one...
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