MEDINA — The 11-year-old girl who was found hiding in a Dumpster on the grounds of Claggett Middle School on Tuesday evening was charged Wednesday with delinquency by inducing panic.
A family member called police to report the girl missing at 3:12 p.m. after
she did not arrive home on the bus.
The girl was charged “so the [...]

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MEDINA — A Wadsworth man who was found monitoring a 17-year-old female relative in his bathroom with a surveillance camera was sentenced to a year in prison Monday on a voyeurism charge.
In addition, he and his wife were each sentenced on child endangering
charges after police found their home was in unsanitary conditions.
Raymond Watson, 46, of [...]

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BURBANK — A chase involving Medina County Sheriff’s deputies and a Parma man came to an abrupt end Wednesday after the man shot himself and crashed into a utility pole just outside the Medina County line in Wayne County.
The chase began after sheriff deputies located Robert A. Palmer at the Lodi Station Outlets off state [...]

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HOUSTON — Less than two years after returning from space on a NASA shuttle mission, astronaut and Wadsworth native Michael Foreman is going back.
It is rare for modern astronauts to be named to another mission after such a short time, but Foreman, a retired Navy captain, said he is ready.
“I’m very excited to get to [...]

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BEREA — Mohamed Massaquoi assumed the No. 1 receiver role when Braylon Edwards was traded to the Jets on Wednesday. He didn’t inherit the need for attention, love of cameras or tendency to say something inflammatory.
 
Edwards took those with him to Broadway, mecca for prima donnas. That’s OK, they don’t fit with Massaquoi’s personality.
 
He doesn’t [...]

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Alma L. Warnes Benson
Barbara E. Cowger
Carmen Michael Reddish
William Paul Shaw

Read the full obituaries on The Gazette E-dition at:
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INDEPENDENCE —The Cavaliers would love it if J.J. Hickson improved by leaps and bounds, because the 21-year-old can certainly leap and ’bound.
 
Hickson, who struggled to pick up the mental aspects of the game as a rookie, looked much more comfortable Tuesday when Cleveland opened the 2009 exhibition season with a 92-87 victory over the Charlotte [...]

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