Cavaliers notebook: It’s time for Cavs to turn words into wins
CLEVELAND: The Cavaliers have spent a lot of time talking, but now they have to turn their words into wins.In the past two days, reports surfaced of team meetings. In the first, reserve forward James...
View ArticleThings to Do, April 2: ‘North by Northwest’ in theaters; Elegant Egg show...
Run for theaters for Hitchcock classicThe 1959 film North by Northwest famously grew from a single idea: Alfred Hitchcock envisioning a chase across the faces of Mount Rushmore. (The other iconic scene...
View Article2017 season preview: Edwin Encarnacion adds muscle to the middle of Indians’...
GOODYEAR, ARIZ.: The Indians did it. They spent a truckload of money on a right-handed power hitter.The two biggest complaints by a hungry fan base were satisfied in one, expensive swoop. For the first...
View Article2017 season preview: Indians’ starting five is talented but needs to stay...
GOODYEAR, ARIZ.: Corey Kluber doesn’t care about the notion that the Indians have one of the best starting rotations in baseball.He really doesn’t care. Take it somewhere else, because Kluber doesn’t...
View ArticleCharity events: Warriors’ Journey Home Gala Dinner & Silent Auction, Girls on...
This WeekTuesdayEastern European Month Celebration — 6 p.m. at Bohemian National Hall/Sokol Greater Cleveland, 4939 Broadway Ave., Cleveland. Guest speaker Dick Russ, former Cleveland news reporter....
View ArticleAP-NORC Poll: Most Americans want independent Russia probe
NEW YORK: A slim majority of Americans favor an independent investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties with the Russian government, according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for...
View ArticleCorrections and clarifications — April 1
■ The name of Akron STEM Middle School eighth-grader Gianna Strada was misspelled in a photo caption Friday. An editor erred.
View ArticleRegional news briefs — April 2, 1017
AKRONScholarship luncheon AKRON: The Akron Urban League will host its Annual Meeting & Scholarship Luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 26 at the Urban League, 440 Vernon Odom Blvd.It’s the...
View ArticleThings You Need to Know — compiled April 1
Ford recalling 53,000 trucksFord says the 2017 F-250 trucks can roll away even when parked due to a manufacturing error. The automaker says drivers should use the parking brake to make sure parked cars...
View ArticleHigh school scores, summaries and schedules — April 1
REPORTING SCORESReport scores by email at bjsports@thebeaconjournal.com, by fax at 330-996-3629 or by phone at 330-996-3800. Let your athletic director and coach know if you do not see your school’s...
View ArticleColombia: 193 dead after rivers overflow, toppling homes
BOGOTA, Colombia: An avalanche of water from three overflowing rivers tore through a small city in Colombia while people slept, destroying homes, sweeping away cars and killing at least 193...
View ArticleWith Trump approval, Pentagon expands war fighting authority
WASHINGTON: Week by week, country by country, the Pentagon is quietly seizing more control over war fighting decisions, sending hundreds more troops to war with little public debate and seeking greater...
View ArticleBob Dyer: Sizing up the racial divide, Part Two
Bishop Joey Johnson and Your Favorite Columnist sat down recently to talk about the sorry state of race relations in 2017.The black baby boomer and the white baby boomer both believe the racial divide...
View ArticleInterior minister, police chief fired after Paraguay clashes
ASUNCION, Paraguay: President Horacio Cartes fired Paraguay’s interior minister and top police official on Saturday following the killing of a young opposition party leader and violent overnight...
View ArticleWorld news briefs — compiled April 1
SOUTH KOREAShip, crew members missingA cargo ship being used by a South Korean shipping company went missing in seas near Uruguay with 24 crew members and authorities said Saturday that two people had...
View ArticleThousands of Indians fans become new season ticket holders as renewed...
In nearly 30 years of having Tribe fever, Brian Bostaph of Akron has felt the range of emotions that come with being an Indians fan.He’s seen the victories and defeats, especially those that came with...
View ArticleWillard McCarley case timeline
Jan. 20, 1992: Charlene Puffenbarger, 26, is found bludgeoned and strangled in her home in the Pinewood Gardens Apartments, a public housing complex in Twinsburg Township. Her sons, ages 2 and 3, were...
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Willard McCarley to be tried for ex-girlfriend’s murder for third time;...
Summit County juries — twice — convicted Willard McCarley of killing his ex-girlfriend. Appellate courts — twice — kicked the case back for a new trial because of trial errors. McCarley, who has now...
View ArticleIndians announce four-year contract extension for Roberto Perez
On the eve of their 2017 season, the Indians announced that they have signed catcher Roberto Perez to a four-year contract extension. The deal runs through the 2020 season and includes club options...
View ArticleArea meetings — April 3-7
MONDAYSummit County Akron City Council — 7 p.m., Municipal Building (Council Chambers), 166 S. High St., 330-375-2256.Barberton City Council Committee of the Whole — 7:30 p.m. (committees start at 6...
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