Sandra Fahning
Special to The Gazette
A true craft lover doesn’t put the craft “toys” away just because warm weather has arrived. Nope, a really crafty person will just change gears and keep going all year round. Knitters will probably switch from large wool projects to cotton yarn and small items like dishcloths. Quilters might choose to [...]

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Allison Wood | The Gazette
MEDINA — A man dressed in camouflage is accused of wandering around his neighborhood and threatening to “wipe people out” because he claimed someone stole his cell phone.
Police reported:
A resident called police after seeing a man wearing black face paint and camouflage clothing and carrying what appeared to be a gun [...]

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Allison Wood | The Gazette
MEDINA — A Brunswick man was sentenced to 29 years in prison Monday for raping a 5-year-old girl in his tractor-trailer last year in Liverpool Township.
Brian Vitt, 27, of 3764 Foxwood Terrace, No. 311, pleaded guilty last month to one count of kidnapping and two counts of rape, all first-degree felonies.
During [...]

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Maria Kacik | The Gazette
BRUNSWICK HILLS TWP. — A 35-foot-high, 150-year-old barn was reduced to smoldering rubble in less than a half-hour Monday by a fire that reached heights nearly twice its size.
Jacob Cunningham, who lives at 5109 Grafton Road, said he had a campfire burning about 100 feet behind the wood barn Monday afternoon. [...]

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Rick Noland
The Gazette
INDEPENDENCE — They’ll front him and play behind him. They’ll play him straight up and double-team him. They’ll try to push him out of his comfort zone. They’ll hack him a few times and send him to the line.
They’ll use Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Ben Wallace and maybe even Joe Smith and Anderson Varejao [...]

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Scott Petrak
The Gazette
AKRON — The Browns open their first full-squad minicamp under coach Eric Mangini today, but they’ll likely do it without one of their best players. One whose role was expected to expand under Mangini.
Special teams ace Joshua Cribbs will skip the “voluntary” three-day minicamp, and another next week, unless the Browns step up [...]

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