Things You Need to Know — compiled Nov. 28
Money pouring in for recountJill Stein is on track to raise twice as much for an election recount effort than she did for her Green Party presidential bid. Fueled by the hashtag #recount2016 and...
View ArticleCorrections and clarifications — Nov. 29
A free concert by Woodridge High School and Kent Roosevelt High School students will be presented at 5 p.m. Thursday at Peninsula’s G.A.R. Hall. An incorrect time was provided to the Beacon Journal for...
View ArticleRegional news briefs — Nov. 29
AKRONKiwanis luncheonAKRON: Kamelia Fisher, executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Summit, Medina & Stark Counties, will speak at the luncheon meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Akron...
View ArticleThings to Do, Nov. 29: Donate on Giving Tuesday; smooth jazz holiday music at...
Enjoy jazz guitar at TangierSmooth jazz guitarist Peter White brings his holiday show to Tangier, with performances at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Euge Groove and Rick Braun are also on the bill. Tickets are...
View ArticleCavaliers’ J.R. Smith searching for way to break out of career-worst shooting...
The worst shooting slump of J.R. Smith’s career has him pondering ways to break out of it. Another performance this dreary, and Smith may have to take matters into his own hands. Or feet, as it may be....
View ArticleTerrorism suspected in car-and-knife attack at Ohio State
COLUMBUS: A Somali-born Ohio State University student plowed his car into a group of pedestrians on campus and then got out and began stabbing people with a butcher knife Monday before he was shot to...
View ArticleODOT opens ramps around Central Interchange in Akron
It should be smooth sailing for highway motorists using the Central Interchange in Akron.The Ohio Department of Transportation has opened several ramps that had been closed for months because of bridge...
View ArticleOhio State student from Medina hides in classroom during attack
Ohio State student Tessa Webb, the daughter of Beacon Journal deputy features editor Craig Webb, was in an environmental public health class in Lazenby Hall when the instructor’s PowerPoint...
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BASKETBALLGIRLSScoring SummariesFIRESTONE 68, KENMORE 43Firestone 13 18 19 18 — 68Kenmore 13 10 4 16 — 43FIRESTONE (1-1, 1-0) — Williams 5-0-10, Wharton 10-2-22, Blackwell 5-4-15, Boone 2-2-6, Maclin...
View ArticleDefense rests case in murder trial of former South Carolina patrolman
CHARLESTON, S.C.: Former North Charleston patrolman Michael Slager choked back tears Tuesday, testifying in his own defense that he felt “total fear” when the black motorist he was chasing from a...
View ArticleBrazilian soccer team’s plane crashes in Colombia; 71 dead
LA UNION, Colombia: Colombian authorities searched for answers Tuesday into the crash of a chartered airliner that slammed into the Andes mountains while transporting a Brazilian soccer team whose...
View ArticleEscaping wildfires meant fleeing through hell-like landscape
GATLINBURG, Tenn.: With flames dripping from tree branches like lava and the air filled with embers, thousands of people raced through a hellish landscape as they fled from wildfires that killed three...
View ArticleTrump suggests ‘consequences’ for any flag-burners
WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that anyone who burns an American flag should face unspecified “consequences,” such as jail or a loss of citizenship. But the Supreme Court has...
View ArticleThings You Need to Know — compiled Nov. 29
Trump filling out his CabinetThe president-elect is enlisting a trio of nominees with deep ties to Washington and Wall Street, including former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin as treasury...
View ArticleIntruder held at gunpoint in tense, bizarre kitchen standoff in Coventry...
COVENTRY TWP.: Jonathan Fillinger is glad he didn’t have to pull the trigger.As his wife and young child hid nearby in their Robinson Avenue home shortly after 6 p.m. Monday, Fillinger, 34, trained his...
View ArticleCorrections and clarifications — Nov. 30
■ Developer Kevin Brokaw of the Geis Companies in Streetsboro was misidentified in a photo caption Tuesday in a Community section story about an Akron City Council planning committee meeting. A...
View ArticleRegional news briefs — Nov. 30
AKRONDad sentenced in burn caseAKRON: A Summit County jury found an 18-year-old Akron man guilty of burning his 4-month-old daughter.The jury found Demetrius Ford guilty of felonious assault and two...
View ArticleState investigating Summit County’s top building official
The Ohio Board of Building Standards is investigating the head of the Summit County building department after receiving complaints from former employees about alleged misconduct.The accusations against...
View ArticleOhio State attacker was angry about treatment of Muslims
COLUMBUS: A Somali-born student who carried out a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University stewed over the treatment of Muslims while apparently staying under the radar of federal law enforcement,...
View ArticleTrump tapping Washington, Wall Street veterans for top jobs
WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump is tapping three nominees with deep ties to Washington and Wall Street to fill out his Cabinet, including former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin as...
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