Akron News

The ninth annual Celtic Beltane Festival brought the sounds of traditional music from Scotland, Ireland and Wales to the Tudor House May 18.

A recent drop in North American PET bottle resin prices is featured in this week's Material Insights video.

Dante Booker, the talented Akron, Ohio, native and 4-star linebacker recruit, kept his college football options close to home, settling on Ohio State to continue his playing career in 2014.

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Thirsty Dog Brewing Co. will release two of its bourbon barrel-aged beers in bottles for the first time starting Friday at the Akron brewery.

Signet Jewelers Ltd., the largest specialty jewelry retailer in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, reported "outstanding" results for the first quarter of fiscal 2014, with sales up 10.4 percent to $993.6 million.

Two suspects are facing arraignment in the execution style deaths of 4 people in Akron.

City of Akron attorneys will be at Akron community centers to talk to residents about what they can do if they are on the list of people whose information was compromised by a recent cyber attack on the city's website.

Pet owners wanting to give their dogs a walk during the day or needing someone to care for a pet while away can get help from SouthPaw Pet Sitting.

Free outdoor community concerts are planned throughout the area, with performances set nearly every day of the week for the next couple of months.

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Nearly 30 racers competed in the 17th Annual Ocean State Soap Box Derby Saturday for the chance to represent Rhode Island in the Derby Nationals in Akron, Ohio.

An Akron man will serve time in prison for killing a woman in an accidental shooting that occurred in February.Andre Wilson, 30, who was incarcerated in the Wayne County Jail, was sentenced, Wednesday, in front of Judge Mark K. Wiest in Wayne County Common Pleas Court to three years in prison for a count of reckless homicide and a count of having ... (more)

Earlier this month students from Notre Dame Elementary competed in a Science, Engineering, Technology and Math soap box derby competition in Akron, Ohio, where the students finished fourth overall.

The Kent Community Dinner, hosted by All Together Now, Inc. and the Islamic Society of Akron and Kent , was recently held at the Islamic Community Center of Cuyahoga Falls.

36-year-old Andrew Norman of Akron has been ordered to repay $15 million in restitution for a mortgage fraud scheme and a second fraudulant sale of a property in Florida, and he'll also be going to prison.

The visitors center at F.A. Seiberling Nature Realm, 1828 Smith Rd., Akron is normally closed Mondays, but the building will welcome visitors from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Memorial Day, May 27.

An Ohio man is facing felony drug charges after Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers seized a loaded 9 mm handgun, eight grams of heroin, a gram of marijuana and 18 ecstasy pills during an OVI checkpoint in Summit County.

AKRON, Ohio: If you don't feel safe from a tornado in your basement or the lowest level of your home, how about investing in a 10-gauge steel shelter buried seven-feet below ground? Survive-a-Storm shelters, based out of Thomasville, Ga., has sold about 2,000 units across the U.S. and the company is getting a lot of attention following the massive ... (more)

ATS 2013, PHILADELPHIA More than 40 percent of patients being treated for COPD at a federally funded clinic did not have the disease, researchers found after evaluating the patients with spirometry, the diagnostic "gold standard" for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.