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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...
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Federal protections cutNow it will be up to states and school districts to determine whether transgender students use restrooms in accordance with their expressed gender identity, or with their...
View ArticleRegional news briefs — Feb. 23, 2017
AKRONMan charged in drug deathAKRON: A 33-year-old Akron man faces charges for allegedly selling carfentanil to two people who overdosed — one of them fatally.Joe Louis Turner II of Tyner Street also...
View ArticleThings to Do, Feb. 23: ‘Menopause the Musical’ in Canton; ‘Mockingbird’ at...
See musical in a (hot) flashWhat’s so funny ’bout hot flashes, mood swings and hormone replacement therapy? Plenty, according to Menopause the Musical, which plays at 7:30 p.m. at the Canton Palace...
View ArticleIndians manager Terry Francona OK with intentional walk rule, advocates for...
Major League Baseball on Tuesday approved a rule change in which teams will be able to give a signal from the dugout to initiate an intentional walk instead of having a pitcher throw four balls. The...
View ArticleCavaliers meet with free-agent center Larry Sanders, sign Derrick Williams to...
INDEPENDENCE: If the Cavaliers strike out before Thursday’s 3 p.m. trade deadline, they still have other alternatives to upgrade the roster. One of them visited Cleveland Clinic Courts on Wednesday.The...
View ArticleRuss Pry to be honored posthumously with Greater Akron Chamber award
Beacon Journal staff report The Greater Akron Chamber said Thursday that longtime Summit County Executive Russ Pry, who died July 31 from health setbacks after cancer surgery, will be honored...
View ArticleArea deaths — Feb. 24, 2017
MEDINACotman, Roger, 79, of Medina. Died Wednesday. Waite & Son.STARKMossor, Paul A., 85, of Canton. Died Monday. Paquelet, Massillon.
View ArticleU.S. to continue use of privately run prisons, attorney general says
WASHINGTON: Attorney General Jeff Sessions signaled Thursday his strong support for the federal government’s continued use of private prisons, reversing an Obama administration directive to phase out...
View ArticleHomeland Security secretary: No use of U.S. military to enforce immigration
MEXICO CITY: Seeking to tamp down growing unease in Latin America, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly pledged Thursday that the United States won’t enlist its military to enforce immigration...
View ArticleWhite House expects Department of Justice crackdown on recreational marijuana
WASHINGTON: The Justice Department will step up enforcement of federal law against recreational marijuana, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Thursday, offering the Trump administration’s strongest...
View ArticleNational news briefs — compiled Feb. 23
ANAHEIM, Calif.Video leads to protestsAnaheim officials pressed for calm Thursday after a night of raucous protests that followed an incident in which an off-duty policeman scuffled in his front yard...
View ArticleWorld news briefs — compiled Feb. 23
IraqForces seize Mosul runwayClosely supported by the U.S.-led international coalition, Iraqi forces secured a series of cautious advances on Thursday, pushing into a sprawling military base outside of...
View ArticleFormer House speaker predicts ‘Obamacare’ won’t be repealed
WASHINGTON: Former House Speaker John Boehner predicted on Thursday that a full repeal and replacement of “Obamacare” is “not going to happen.”The Ohio Republican, who was forced out by conservatives...
View ArticleNASA’s Jupiter-circling spacecraft stuck making long laps
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.: NASA’s Jupiter-circling spacecraft is stuck making long laps around the gas giant because of sticky valves.It currently takes Juno 53 days to fly around the solar system’s biggest...
View ArticleThings You Need to Know — compiled Feb. 23
Trying to reassure MexicoHomeland Security Secretary John Kelly pledged that the United States won’t enlist its military to enforce immigration laws and that there will be “no mass deportations.” Hours...
View ArticleRegional news briefs — Feb. 24, 2017
AKRONTwo teens shot in drive-byAKRON: A pair of teenage cousins were injured in a drive-by shooting in Akron on Wednesday afternoon.The teenagers — 18 and 17 — told police they were walking south on...
View ArticleThings to Do, Feb. 24: Kent BeatleFest; home and flower show in Akron;...
Kent BeatleFest will be fabCome Together for the Kent BeatleFest, happening Here, There and Everywhere (more than a dozen different venues), from 5 p.m. until The End at 1 a.m. Bands will be playing...
View ArticleCuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad names new president and CEO
Joe Mazur is trading in derby cars for trains.The president and chief executive officer of the International Soap Box Derby is leaving the Akron nonprofit for the same position at the Cuyahoga Valley...
View ArticleAkron breaks another weather record, storms on the horizon — winds up to 70...
All good things must come to an end.And this record-breaking string of warm days will come to an abrupt and stormy end Friday night.It was another record-setting day in Akron on Thursday when the...
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