Ohio gas prices remain below $2 heading into holiday week
COLUMBUS: Ohio motorists head into Christmas week with gas prices remaining below $2 and more than 10 cents less than a week ago.The state average was about $1.81 for a gallon of regular gas in...
View ArticleHuge Miss Universe mistake by host Steve Harvey crowns Colombia before...
LAS VEGAS: The Colombian contestant was already wearing this year’s Miss Universe crown when host Steve Harvey returned to announce on live television that he had mistakenly read from a cue card, and...
View ArticlePolice: Inmate back in custody after escape from Northeast Ohio jail
BEDFORD, OHIO: Authorities say a Cleveland man is back in custody after he escaped from a northeast Ohio jail through a faulty door.Cleveland.com reports police said Sunday that the 29-year-old man was...
View ArticleOhio lawmakers question policies for students skipping class
COLUMBUS: Ohio lawmakers are questioning policies that suspend or expel a student who repeatedly fails to show for school.The Columbus Dispatch reports that a pair of House Republicans recently...
View ArticleLindsey Graham ends bid for Republican presidential nomination
WASHINGTON: Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham announced Monday he was ending his 2016 presidential campaign.The South Carolina senator posted a video saying he was proud of his campaign, which he said was...
View ArticleFamily of presidential hopeful Kasich join him on trail
COLUMBUS: Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s family is joining him on the presidential campaign trail.The Republican governor was slated to hold events Monday across New Hampshire, where his wife and twin...
View ArticleInvestigation finds U.S. power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks
SAN JOSE, CALIF.: Security researcher Brian Wallace was on the trail of hackers who had snatched a California university’s housing files when he stumbled into a larger nightmare: Cyberattackers had...
View ArticleCoroner: Grandson of Jimmy Carter dies in Georgia
PEACHTREE CITY, GA.: Jeremy Carter, the grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, has died near Atlanta. He was 28.The cause of death was not yet known and the case was under investigation Monday,...
View ArticleBear pulls Boy Scout leader into cave by foot; Scouts unhurt
ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J.: A Boy Scout leader was pulled into a cave by a bear in northern New Jersey but beat the animal away with a rock hammer while the three Scouts with him called for help,...
View ArticlePolice need public’s help to ID man who robbed Wadsworth bank; new photos...
Wadsworth police on Monday released new photos of a man who robbed a bank in a grocery store last weekend and are asking for the public’s help to identify him.According to reports, the man passed a...
View ArticleFDA eases restrictions on blood donations from gay men
WASHINGTON: The nation’s three-decade-old ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men was formally lifted Monday, but major restrictions will continue to limit who can give blood.The Food and Drug...
View ArticleThings to Do, Dec. 22: Potato Bowl, holiday TV and John Green movie
Be a couch potatoGrab a bowl of potato salad, a plate of fries and sit back and become a couch potato as the University of Akron’s football team takes on Utah State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. The...
View ArticleHigh school scores, summaries and schedules — Dec. 21
REPORTING SCORESSchools are encouraged to report scores by email at bjsports@thebeaconjournal.com, by fax at 330-996-3629 or by phone at 330-996-3800. Please report scores from home and away games and...
View ArticleOhio county reports high rates of infectious disease Shigellosis
CINCINNATI: Health officials in Cincinnati and Hamilton County are reporting unusually high rates of a highly contagious disease that causes diarrhea.The city and county health departments said Monday...
View ArticleAmid rise in Ohio traffic deaths, safe holiday travel urged
COLUMBUS: State officials are preaching road safety in anticipation of heavy end-of-year holiday travel, as Ohio already has dozens more traffic deaths this year than in all of 2014.State Highway...
View ArticleTrump calls Clinton a ‘liar’ over video claim
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Hillary Clinton says Republican Donald Trump has become recruiting fodder for Islamic extremists, and Trump calls her a liar, in what could be a preview of the 2016 general...
View Article15 rural Ohio schools to share in $2 million from timber sales
COLUMBUS: Officials say 15 rural school districts and their communities will share about $2 million from the sale of timber from Ohio’s state forests.Through the state’s “Trees to Textbooks”...
View ArticleOhio comedian mayor facing civil lawsuit, investigation
HILLSBORO, OHIO: A Southwest Ohio mayor who’s also a veteran standup comedian is facing a civil lawsuit and an investigation into possible criminal charges.The Times-Gazette of Hillsboro reports that a...
View ArticleSheriff identifies teen brother, sister killed in Ohio crash
GREENVILLE, OHIO: A sheriff’s office has identified a teenage sister and brother killed in a crash when their car collided with a semitrailer in western Ohio.A Darke County sheriff’s office statement...
View ArticleMedina man, 67, hospitalized after being stabbed by his wife
A 67-year-old Medina man is in critical condition in a Cleveland hospital after allegedly being stabbed by his wife, the Medina Gazette reported.David Gerspacher of Brentwood Drive was stabbed by his...
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