Akron

How they ranked These Northeast Ohio hospitals earned recognition in this year’s edition of the Best Hospitals annual report by U.S. News & World Report: Akron General 
Medical Center • 31st in pulmonology (tie). • 50th for gastroenterology/gastrointestinal (GI) surgery. • 7th in Ohio (tie). Aultman Hospital (Canton) • 15th in Ohio. Cleveland Clinic • 5th in the nation. • 1st […]
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Last year, Ben O’Daniel needed leg braces to walk. Now he’s training between cancer treatments to run in an ultramarathon alongside athletes from across the country. O’Daniel, 16, of Kent, is joining endurance athlete and Akron native Larry DeWitt this weekend for the last mile of the Burning River 100. The 100-mile trail race begins […]
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Architect Roy G. Firestone designed some of the Akron area’s most elegant homes.  West Akron is sprinkled with his handiwork — Tudors and Georgians and French Neo-classicals, many with grand entries, sweeping porches and servants’ quarters. His houses helped define gracious living in Akron during the middle decades of the 20th century. Yet he raised his […]
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A busier slate of races than ever will greet the more than 450 competitors coming to Akron this week for the 78th annual FirstEnergy All-American Soap Box Derby. International Soap Box Derby President and CEO Joe Mazur said the organization has added an extra day of racing at Derby Downs to accommodate the inaugural Subway […]
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Award to be given Richard White and RAHAB founder Becky Moreland will receive the Fowler-Larson Allies Award later this year. White, through Christ Community Chapel in Hudson, launched Restoration Chapel, a church campus serving the residents of the Cuyahoga Hills Youth Detention Center. The two have developed a collaborative relationship, sharing volunteers, launching combined fundraising […]
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Regina Herring was just 15 when she turned her first trick. “I met a guy who made me a prostitute,” said the now 54-year-old grandmother. “He started out like he wanted to be my boyfriend.” That’s often how it is. Pimps tell girls they are special, and their teenage minds believe it. The so-called relationship […]
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Here’s a Beacon Journal synopsis of what <a href="https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-documents?id=GA131-HB-2“>House Bill 2, the charter school reform package, would do: • Require the Ohio Department of Education to study and implement a fundamentally different way of grading charter schools known as the California model. This model does not track student growth, or what is learned in a year, […]
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It’s not often that someone must chose between paying funeral expenses or a utility bill. That was the situation 90-year-old Tom Haralson faced when he received a whopping $1,542 water charge from the city of Akron at the same time a payment was due for his late wife’s funeral. Haralson normally pays about $40 a […]
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The eastbound lanes of Interstate 76 through Akron’s Kenmore neighborhood will reopen in time for the Monday morning rush hour. That stretch of highway — commonly called the Kenmore leg — has been closed to traffic since the beginning of June, inconveniencing tens of thousands of motorists daily as they travel through the city. The […]
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You’re richer than you realize. A new study shows $100 will buy you more in Ohio than almost anywhere in the country — and more in Akron than in almost any other metropolitan area in Ohio. To borrow an old weather trick, in Akron, $100 “feels like” $112.49. That’s almost a buck more than the […]
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