Akron News

If you have been training your German Shepherd Dog in obedience and are now ready to enter an AKC obedience trial, there are many coming up in the Akron area over the next several months.

She had one daughter, Marion Cox of Akron, Ohio; a son, Geoff Davis of Caldwell; one sister, Mary Hickman; two brothers, Bernard and Jim Hickman of Columbus, Ohio; one granddaughter, Nicky of North Carolina; and a grandson, Beau of Marietta; and one special friend, Annabelle Carney.

Summit County Councilman Bill Roemer is following through on a campaign promise to give half his government salary to charity because the county didn't produce a balanced general fund budget last year.

CUYAHOGA FALLS: The question over whether membership rates at the Falls Natatorium will change to include a provision to offer a "spouse" discount to gay couples married in other states won't be decided for at least another month.

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Four years of college tuition, without paying a penny, may sound too good to be true.

Who's your pick for artist of the year? Akron, Ohio duo Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney almost single-handedly made rock and roll cool again.

Sherry Kelley, a teacher in the Early Childhood program at the Shaw Jewish Community Center of Akron, was honored Wednesday with This City Reads' Literacy is Life Award.

It's a movement called edible landscaping, and there's good reason for it, advocates say.

Every day on the way to work, I drive past the fancy electronic message board on Interstate 77 south near Copley Road in West Akron.

The 7-year-old from Norton, Ohio, bravely endures countless tests, treatments and lengthy hospital stays as he battles leukemia.

Next month, the Black Keys will kick off their first-ever North American arena tour, an accomplishment the dynamic duo never thought possible 10 years ago, when they were mowing lawns in their hometown of Akron, Ohio.

Jovan Tuba, left, and Jessiah Hayes are both students at the Early College High School on the University of Akron campus.

Jenne Inc., a leading value-added distributor of IP telephony, audio and video conferencing, data networking and security products, announced that it has named Rick Coan as its new senior vice president of finance.

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Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh announced that late Tuesday, after less than an hour of deliberations, a jury found Terrence Minor guilty of Aggravated Murder.

A 29-year-old man was arrested after he broke out a window of an Akron business and stole beer and cigarettes.

"What we really need in our search for truth is a commodity that used to be at the heart of good... AKRON, Ohio - An Ohio man suspected in the shooting deaths of three men who were lured to a rural area by bogus job ads on Craigslist faces another court hearing.

In the acceptance speech I delivered in Stockholm upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, I attributed much of my great success to the many years I spent studying and teaching the classics at the Sorbonne in Paris.

The New York State Police assisted the Lakewood-Busti Police Department with a vehicle stop on Route 394 in North Harmony.