Things to Do, Oct. 5: Cavs open preseason; ‘Living Dead,’ ‘Young...
See horror classics on big screenYou can tell it’s Halloween season when movie houses start busting out horror classics:■ The Reel Science series at the Cedar Lee in Cleveland Heights is showing George...
View ArticleIndians notebook: Danny Salazar will not be on ALDS roster, will be sent to...
CLEVELAND: The Indians are waiting to name their full 25-man roster for the American League Division Series, but pitcher Danny Salazar will not be a part of it.Indians manager Terry Francona said after...
View ArticleAfter long summer of basketball, Kyrie Irving will sit out Cavaliers’...
The Cavaliers open the preseason Wednesday with many of the same goals they had last season under coach Tyronn Lue: Keep the rotation long, the minutes short and be healthy when the playoffs begin in...
View ArticleIndians’ battle-tested bullpen ready for October stakes, playoff baseball
CLEVELAND: As the Indians scratched and clawed their way through September following a rash of injuries to the starting rotation, it’s been the bullpen that picked up the extra innings, as well as the...
View ArticlePresidents Obama, Clinton head to Northeast Ohio for Hillary
Two of the most popular American presidents in Hillary Clinton’s deep-pocketed roster of political surrogates will be crisscrossing Northeast Ohio in the next two weeks.President Bill Clinton will be...
View ArticleClinton reaches out to women while Trump defends taxes
PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz.: Hillary Clinton appealed to voting mothers Tuesday while outlining ways she hopes to curb gun violence as president and provide paid family leave and sick days for struggling...
View ArticleWeird science: Three win Nobel for unusual states of matter
How is a doughnut like a coffee cup? The answer helped three British-born scientists win the Nobel prize in physics Tuesday.Their work could help lead to more powerful computers and improved materials...
View ArticleFalls woman discovers decade-old certified LeBron James chewed bubble gum...
Sometimes the best of a lifetime of treasures can be found tucked in a folder inside a plastic tote.Loren “Coco” Mayer found one such “pop culture” treasure after she recently moved back to the Akron...
View ArticleEast Coast preps for Hurricane Matthew evacuations, damage
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.: South Carolina’s governor said she would issue an evacuation order Wednesday so that 1 million people would have time to leave the coast ahead of Hurricane Matthew, and residents...
View ArticleMike Pence and Tim Kaine clash in fiery vice presidential debate
FARMVILLE, Va.: Indiana Gov. Mike Pence tried during Tuesday’s vice presidential debate to stanch the damage from disclosures that Donald Trump may not have paid federal income taxes for two decades,...
View ArticleFact check: A look at claims made in the VP debate
By Calvin WoodwardAssociated PressWASHINGTON: Not all the claims in the vice presidential debate stand up to scrutiny. A look at some of them and how they compare with the facts:REPUBLICAN MIKE PENCE:...
View ArticleHow long can people live? New study suggests there’s a limit
LOS ANGELES: Just how long can people live?New research suggests there may be a limit to our life span — one that’s hard to extend without some sort of breakthrough that fixes all age-related...
View ArticleAfter testy VP debate, Trump rebuffs claim he ‘loves’ Putin
HENDERSON, Nev.: Donald Trump pushed back Wednesday on Hillary Clinton’s accusation that he’s cozying up to Russian President Vladimir Putin after the charge put Trump’s running mate on the defensive...
View ArticleTrump Tower: Home to family, empire and claims of kickbacks
NEW YORK: Six years after George Gjieli left federal prison, where he’d been sent for trying to break out a triple murderer, Donald Trump gave him a job running Trump Tower, where the billionaire...
View ArticleThree win Nobel chemistry prize for world’s tiniest machines
Three scientists won a Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for advances in a field that has big hopes for very tiny machines — the smallest ever built.Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Scottish-born Fraser...
View ArticleNational news briefs — compiled Oct. 5
WASHINGTONNSA contractor chargedA contractor for the National Security Agency has been arrested on charges that he illegally removed highly classified information and stored the material in his home...
View ArticleWorld news briefs — compiled Oct. 5
UNITED NATIONSParis climate pact hits markThe landmark Paris agreement on climate change will enter into force on Nov. 4, after a coalition of the world’s largest polluters and small island nations...
View ArticleNearly 2 million urged to evacuate as Matthew edges toward U.S.
MELBOURNE BEACH, Fla.: Hurricane Matthew marched toward Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas and nearly 2 million people along the coast were urged to evacuate their homes Wednesday, a mass exodus ahead...
View ArticleRising cost of Medicaid expansion is unnerving some states
ATLANTA: The cost of expanding Medicaid under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul is rising faster than expected in many states, causing budget anxieties and political misgivings.Far more...
View ArticleTag contributed to Puget Sound orca’s death, scientists say
SEATTLE: A satellite-linked tag fired into an endangered Puget Sound orca by federal biologists led to a fungal infection that contributed to the whale’s death, scientists said Wednesday.The National...
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