The digital shelves are stocked for Cyber Monday, one of the biggest online shopping days of the year, and the Better Business Bureau of Akron has some tips to help make the experience safe and easy. First is to be what they call a "savvy shopper", meaning take your time…
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Saturday, 28 November 2015 09:49
APD: Man Shot By Officer For Backing Into Cop With Cruiser
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An Akron police officer shot and wounded a man who allegedly tried to back into cops with their own cruiser during a chase Friday afternoon. Officers responded to a call on Carneige Avenue to check on 22 year-old David Duffield, who was possibly suicidal and armed with a handgun. The…
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The high school football playoffs are coming down to the wire as local teams took the field for the state semifinals Friday night. Here are the results... Division II State Semifinals Massillon Perry 10, Hudson 7 Division III State Semifinals Archbishop Hoban 33, Zanesville 21 Division V State Semifinals Canton…
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Lock 3 in downtown Akron is ready for the holidays. The official tree lighting begins tonight at 7:00 followed by fireworks. Other attractions are open earlier, including a new polymer skating rink and the reindeer run - also utilizing polymer. The traditional ice skating rink has been open. Also, the…
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Criminals using social media to lure victims is a popular M.O - because it often works. Just ask a 19-year old Akronite who was robbed of the Air Jordan shoes he was trying to sell. He got a hit off a mention on Instragram, so he and his friend drove to the…
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It's not difficult to see the shift in Thanksgiving weekend shopping patterns. It was just a couple of years ago that mall and other retail store parking lots were filled to the edges in the early morning hours of Black Friday.l Not anymore. In fact, the days of big sales…
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A Thanksgiving Day Amber Alert serves as a good example of why people outside the immediate area should pay attention. The alert was issued around 12:30 a.m. Thursday in Belmont County. Eleven hours later and 70 miles away in Canton, some alert drivers recognized Mandy Myer's car on I-77. They…
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If you think putting on Thanksgiving dinner is challenging, try cooking for several hundred people ... and you don't even know for sure how many are coming. That's the task at Haven of Rest Ministries on Thanksgiving Day. Assistant Food Service Manager JoNell Muth says they cooked 250 turkeys, 300…
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It looks like another successful Thanksgiving Day fundraiser for Gennesaret. The organization puts together a four mile and a one mile race near Glendale Cemetery to help fund its mission of providing housing to the homeless and feeding people who are hungry. Donna Crookston of Barberton says it's about the…
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Mother Nature couldn't have been more kind to the 6th Annual Thanks4Giving All-Star Football Game. The game kicked off Thursday morning at Stow-Munroe Falls High School, with food donations and ticket sales benefiting the North American Indian Cultural Center. "Since January, we've probably served over 500 families in Summit County with…
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An Akron man will spend 13 years behind bars for kidnapping and beating a woman. Prosecutors say 45 year-old John Lewis of Springdale St. had been in an on-again, off-again relationship with the woman for eight years. In August of 2014, Lewis drove the victim to his house where he…
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The City of Akron has a new Deputy Director of Public Service. Chris Ludle, who has been the city's Highway Maintenance Superintendent, takes over next week for Phil Montgomery. Montgomery was appointed the city of Akron's Chief Information Officer after Rick Schmahl took a state job. Ludle has been in…
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Akron police say they've now solved two of last week's three homicides but the latest announcement does not come with arrests. That's where police, along with the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force, are hoping you can help. Daymond Hooks, 29, and Phillip Key, 32, are wanted in the shooting…
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Wednesday, 25 November 2015 08:45
Police: Man Nearly Four Times Over Legal Limit In Crash
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An Akron man is facing a list of charges after police say he was driving drunk -- nearly four times the legal limit -- and crashed into a tree at Tallmadge Circle Wednesday morning. Tallmadge police said Andrew C. Craig, 26, of Akron, has been charged with aggravated vehicular assault…
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