AKRON
Offices to close for holiday
AKRON: All city of Akron offices will be closed on Friday in observance of Veterans Day. Trash service will run on its normal schedule.
UNIVERSITY OF AKRON
Board extends paid leave
AKRON: The University of Akron board of trustees on Wednesday approved extending the time nonbargaining unit employees can use five paid leave days given to them in lieu of 3 percent raises.
About 1,000 union members received the raises in contracts ratified earlier this year.
The board will give the additional paid leave days to 900 nonbargaining unit employees including contract professionals and administrators such as chairs or directors.
The paid time off can be used between Dec. 1, 2016, and March 31, 2017. The original deadline for using the additional days was Jan. 17.
The days must be used in eight-hour increments.
BARBERTON
Police seek alleged shooter
BARBERTON: Police are looking for a suspect who shot a man in the face during an apparent robbery attempt outside his home on Halloween, Beacon Journal news partner NewsNet5.com reports.
“Anyone who would walk up to a person just getting out of their car at night and shoot him in the face [is a] very dangerous person that we’d like to get captured,” Lt. Brian Jamison told the television station.
Summit County Crimestoppers is offering a reward of up to $2,000 for information that solves the shooting.
People can provide tips anonymously by calling 330-434-2677.
PORTAGE COUNTY
Jury recommends execution
RAVENNA: A Portage County jury has recommended the death penalty for an Akron man convicted in the shooting death of a Kent State University student. Damantae Graham, 19, was one of three people charged in the death of Nick Massa, 18, during an off-campus robbery at a Kent apartment in February.
Common Pleas Judge Laurie Pittman will sentence Graham at 1 p.m. Nov. 17. The jury returned its recommendation Tuesday. Graham had been found guilty earlier on all of the charges against him: aggravated murder, aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery and kidnapping.
Marquis Greer and Ty Kremling, both 17, are being tried as adults in Massa’s death. Greer, of Massillon, and Kremling, of Stow, face the same charges as Graham. Both have trials scheduled for Nov. 22 before Pittman.
Massa, a Westlake resident who lived on the KSU campus, was visiting friends at an off-campus apartment on East Main Street in Kent when three young men arrived there at about 4:15 p.m. and demanded money, a 911 caller reported. Massa challenged the robbers and one fired at him. Massa died of his wounds while the three fled.
SUMMIT COUNTY
New child porn charge
BARBERTON: A Barberton man convicted last month on a child pornography charge is facing a new fourth-degree felony charge of pandering obscenity involving a minor.
Matthew Barlow, 33, was charged Tuesday after the Summit County Sheriff’s Office accused him of having several images of child pornography on two cellphones.
Barlow was charged in January. He pleaded guilty in June and was released on bond while a pre-sentence investigation was conducted. He didn’t return for a scheduled court hearing and was later charged with failure to appear. In August, two cellphones belonging to Barlow were turned over to authorities for forensic examination.
He was sentenced Oct. 22 to 12 months in prison.
The new charge is related to the phones. Additional charges may be filed pending the outcome of the investigation, authorities said.