Friday, 02 August 2019 11:56
This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-8-2-19 Featured
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This week, parents who share too much online, Facebook’s big fine, a huge mobile merger, high tech dog houses, and a $200 dollar smart pillow.
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Photo op tomorrow for the media at the Akron Zoo, as the new little snow leopard cub preens for the cameras before her big name reveal and first public outing on Saturday. The cub's mother will choose between names presented on three snacks, and the first one she touches,…
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Thursday, 01 August 2019 04:58
Clay Matthews Jr. Headed to Browns Ring of Honor
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Written By Andrew Gribble, ClevelandBrowns.com Senior Writer Clay Matthews wasn’t expecting the call, and he certainly wasn’t expecting what followed. The Browns Legend learned he was headed to the team’s Ring of Honor when general manager John Dorsey surprised him with a phone call earlier this summer. It was a…
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Akron Police are looking for three suspects who drove a vehicle, likely a large one, through the front doors of the Circle K at 1877 Triplett Boulevard early Tuesday morning, loaded up the ATM from inside, and then took off. An employee of the gas station told police he was…
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Former St. Vincent-St. Mary High School wrestling coach Justin "Harry" Lester has been indicted on sexual battery charges. According to court documents, it's alleged that Lester, of Uniontown, was having a sexual relationship with a student for more than a year, that started back in April of 2018. At that…
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Michael Modjallal of Akron was killed while driving through western Pennsylvania when a deer went through his windshield. The accident reportedly happened just after 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon, along State Route 68 in Connoquenessing. WKYC.com is reporting that state police say another driver hit the deer, sending it airborne…
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The Summit County Sheriff's Office is reporting a 29-year-old man from Parma was killed in that accident that closed State Mill Road in Coventry Township for more than 3 hours Friday morning. Reports are that two pedestrians were walking along State Mill Road, one of them, the man that was…
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Friday, 26 July 2019 07:39
This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-7-26-19 Featured
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This week, Amazon bringing 2,700 new jobs to Northeast Ohio, beating the heat with building design and technology, electric cars powered with water, and artificial intelligence links built into your brain.
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A Summit County judge has ordered another psychiatric evaluation at an outside facility of accused Akron arsonist and murderer Stanley Ford. News 5 is reporting that Ford, who was initially uncooperative with his legal team, was previously evaluated by a court psychologist and that the results were inconclusive. Ford, set…
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Once again, the property at 15 Broad Street in Akron's Middlebury neighborhood is being given the "cease and desist" order by the City of Akron, after it was found that homeless people were sleeping there, against the previous orders of the city. Earlier this year, Sage Lewis with Akron's Homeless…
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UPDATE: Springfield Township Police, along with the help of the US Marshals Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force, have arrested Brian Capien of Akron. According to police, Capien is alleged to have made death threats against several people, and then set off a pipe bomb near one of the…
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Akron Police responded to Oakdale Avenue on a call of a man who was shot around 1 o'clock Monday afternoon. There, they found the victim, a 23-year-old man, with a gunshot wound to the foot. He was taken to Cleveland Clinic akron General with non-life threatening injuries. According to the…
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Akron Police are investigating after shots were fired into a home on Weeks Street near the corner of 7th Avenue; the same home outside of which Joel "Joey" Wells, the 31-year-old brother of former Ohio State and Garfield High School running back Chris "Beanie" Wells, was shot and killed. The…
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It's official: Amazon is coming to Akron, and bringing with it roughly 1,500 new jobs; most of which that start at $15 per hour. In a statment issued early this morning, Amazon announced what's been speculated for a long time now, that the former Rolling Acres Mall property on the…
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