MONTVILLE TWP. — Township police are able to step-up patrols on the most accident-prone county roads and state highways, thanks to a recent grant of more than $34,000 from the Ohio Traffic Safety Office.
“These funds are critical to ensuring that we are doing everything possible to keep our community safe,” Chief Thomas Acklin said in [...]

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MEDINA — Police and community members searched an area near Claggett Middle School for an 11-year-old girl Tuesday after a family member reported she didn’t get off the bus.
The girl was found at 7:42 p.m. hiding in a Dumpster on school grounds, Police Chief Patrick J. Berarducci said. The girl was taken to Medina Hospital [...]

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HINCKLEY TWP. — The world takes notice every March 15 when the buzzards return to Hinckley, but no one seems to pay attention to
where the birds set up housekeeping once they arrive.
That would be right on top of Miki Simic’s house.
Every morning and evening, like clockwork, a batch of buzzards comes to roost on the [...]

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AKRON — Children younger than 18 and those who are ill will be prohibited from visiting Medina County’s three hospitals in order to limit the spread of the flu.
The order came from the Akron Regional Hospital Association, of which
Medina Hospital, Lodi Community Hospital, Summa Wadsworth-Rittman Hospital and most Summit County hospitals are members.
Along with children [...]

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If timing is everything, the trade of Braylon Edwards to the bright lights of the big city is a touchdown.
 
If the deal is judged solely on getting equal value in return, it’s more like a 4-yard run up the middle. Not bad, but nothing to celebrate.
 
Coach Eric Mangini sent his top playmaker to his former [...]

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BRUNSWICK — Mayoral candidate Gary Werner said he is filing a complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission against incumbent Dale Strasser for a claim in campaign literature that Werner was trying to “buy” residents’ votes.
Werner said the complaint was mailed Wednesday and should be formally filed today.
He said the offending message was found in a [...]

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CLEVELAND —The search is on for the next manager of the Cleveland Indians.
 
General manager Mark Shapiro said Wednesday that after compiling an initial list of around 30 candidates to replace Eric Wedge, who was fired with six days left in the regular season following a seven-year tenure, the team was close to narrowing the field [...]

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Josephine F. Korkowski

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