Midnight Syndicate announces scary return to Cedar Point’s HalloWeekends
Halloween is months away, but Cedar Point is already scaring up some thrills for its HalloWeekends. The park and Midnight Syndicate — the Northeast Ohio musicians who pen frightful soundtracks for...
View ArticleU.S. won’t participate in UN Right Council without reforms
UNITED NATIONS: U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the United States will not continue participating in the Human Rights Council unless the U.N. rights agency undergoes “considerable reform.”He...
View ArticleUniversity increases police presence for Green Beer Day
OXFORD, Ohio: A university in Ohio is offering alternative activities and increasing police patrols in preparation for a decades-old tradition of celebrating with green-dyed beer on the Thursday before...
View ArticleAkron man sentenced to 5 years for fentanyl overdose death; man’s mother says...
A Cuyahoga Falls mother doesn’t want her son to be known as an addict or a murderer.Nancy Mariola says Brock Richardson also is a victim of the heroin epidemic, though he is still alive while a man he...
View ArticleStudy: Stopping global warming only way to save coral reefs
SYDNEY: Reducing pollution and curbing overfishing won’t prevent the severe bleaching that is killing coral at catastrophic rates, according to a study of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. In the end,...
View ArticleNew Citizens Bank Branch to open in Acme Green grocery store
Citizens Bank will hold a grand opening on Friday, Mar. 17, to celebrate its new branch inside the Acme Fresh Market located at 3875 Massillon Rd in Green. This is the eighth Acme branch for Citizens....
View ArticleTrump announces challenge to Obama-era fuel standards
YPSILANTI, MICH.: President Donald Trump announced plans Wednesday to re-examine federal requirements governing the fuel efficiency of cars and trucks, moving forcefully against Obama-era environmental...
View ArticleESPN’s Todd McShay delves into quarterback draft decision Browns could face:...
With the first wave of NFL free agency complete, the latest trend among draft analysts is to predict all of the incoming rookie quarterbacks who will be available to the Browns when they go on the...
View ArticleCavaliers forwards Kevin Love, Kyle Korver might return soon, but major...
INDEPENDENCE: The time that Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue has long awaited, and with it the decisions that he’s been agonizing over, are nearly upon him.Barring something unforeseen, the Cavs’ roster will...
View ArticleWinners and losers in Trump’s first budget plan
WASHINGTON: Military spending would get the biggest boost in President Donald Trump’s proposed budget. Environmental programs, medical research, Amtrak and an array of international and cultural...
View ArticleTrump’s budget: Build up military, build the wall
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump unveiled a $1.15 trillion budget Thursday, proposing a far-reaching overhaul of federal spending that would slash many domestic programs to finance a big increase for...
View ArticleTrump seeks elimination of Great Lakes restoration funding
TRAVERSE CITY, MICH.: President Donald Trump wants to eliminate federal support of a program that addresses the Great Lakes’ most pressing environmental threats.Trump’s 2018 budget released Thursday...
View ArticleRefugee who helped U.S. troops was headed for Akron when government officials...
An Afghan man who risked his life to help the U.S. fight terrorism was detained and set for deportation Wednesday, a day after he was supposed to be resettled in Akron.Before President Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleSecond child in a week revived after apparently ingesting drugs and...
A second Akron child in a week has accidentally ingested and overdosed on drugs apparently left out by parents or other adults.According to police, a 6-year-old girl ingested an opiate — possibly...
View ArticleOhio police say 2 found dead after child reports parents unresponsive; drug...
CENTERVILLE, OHIO: Police say medics found two adults dead after a child called 911 to report unresponsive parents at a home in southwestern Ohio.The Dayton Daily News reports that Centerville police...
View ArticleEscaped prisoner caught in stolen car after 2-state chase that started in Ohio
CLEVELAND: Authorities say a handcuffed prisoner who escaped from a transport vehicle in Cleveland is back in custody in Pennsylvania after leading police on a high-speed chase in a stolen car.WKYC-TV...
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Headtrip Brewery in Stow owes its name to a dream
Nick Seagle and Tom Mitchell were struggling to pick a name for their new nanobrewery. Then — just like in the movies — it came to Seagle in a dream. “I was sleeping and I had a dream that we were at...
View ArticlePolice: Ohio officer, man hit by gunfire amid drug search
COLUMBUS: Police say an officer was shot in the hip in Ohio’s capital city at a home where the gunfire suspect was arrested and another man was shot in the leg.Columbus police say a 22-year-old man...
View ArticlePutin: Germany’s Merkel to visit Russia in May
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin says he expects German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Moscow in May.“We are looking forward to her visit to Russia on May 2,” Putin said Thursday at a...
View ArticleThe Latest on the NCAA Tournament: Notre Dame avoids upset, Woodson helps...
The Latest on the NCAA Tournament (all times EST):2:26 p.m.Avery Woodson has the hot hand from 3-point range for fourth-seeded Butler in a first-round game in Milwaukee against 13th-seeded Winthrop.The...
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