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  • [26-05-2012] Navy begins assessing fire-damaged sub USS Miami
    Workers at the shipyard finished pumping fresh air into the fire-damaged sub, allowing Navy investigators to enter to begin the first damage assessment....

  • [26-05-2012] Hope Walk brings in $50,000 for cancer center
    Three cheers for the nearly 500 volunteers, businesses, community organizations, walkers and their furry companions who participated in the recent Stewart’s Caring Place: Cancer Wellness Center’s sixth annual Hope...

  • [25-05-2012] Rookie Steelers LB Spence finding his way
    Steelers rookie linebacker Sean Spence chose No. 31 when he played at Miami because he wanted to create his own path. The Steelers didn't give him the same option. The third-round draft pick found No. 51 hanging in his locker when he...

  • [24-05-2012] Steelers rookie linebacker Sean Spence finding his way
    Sean Spence chose No. 31 at the University of Miami because he wanted to create his own path. The Steelers didn't give him the same option....

  • [24-05-2012] Local news briefs - May 24
    AKRONPregnant girl hurtAKRON: An Akron man was charged with assaulting his pregnant girlfriend, biting her forehead and firing a gun as she tried to leave his home.Dazaun Coppinger, 18, was being held Wednesday in the Summit County...

  • [21-05-2012] Pirates strike out 17 times, fall to Tigers 4-3
    The Pittsburgh Pirates whiffed their way through another nine innings, but the biggest pitch of the day might have been the one their catcher missed. With runners on first and second in a tie game in the seventh, reliever Tony Watson's...

  • [16-05-2012] Akron students take ‘field trip’ to Miami to see LeBron named MVP
    When LeBron James accepted his third NBA Most Valuable Player trophy in four years Saturday in Miami, he thanked six Rankin elementary school third-graders sitting in the audience who had flown in from Akron that morning at his...

  • [16-05-2012] Josh Johnson pitches Marlins past Pirates
    Josh Johnson allows two runs over seven innings for his first victory in more than a year, and the Miami Marlins beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-2....

  • [16-05-2012] Pirates' excellent pitching carrying team early in season
    The Pirates are currently last in nearly every offensive category in Major League Baseball, but the Pirates’ pitching staff has kept the team around the .500 mark all season long. "I couldn't be more pleased with the...

  • [14-05-2012] Pirates win 2nd-straight series on Harrison's walk-off single
    After four hours in the rain and with his team down to its fourth first baseman, Josh Harrison wasn't going to be patient. With the winning run at second and two outs in the bottom of the 12th at soggy PNC Park, Harrison didn't pass up a...

  • [13-05-2012] Celebrations — May 13
    CommunityMark Krohn is this year’s recipient of the Leadership Akron Alumni Association’s Distinguished Leader Award. The award recognizes his efforts to advance the mission of the Akron Rotary Camp. He is a partner in...

  • [11-05-2012] Hines Ward almost played in Miami, not Pittsburgh
    Former Steelers receiver Hines Ward was back on the field in Pittsburgh for one night only, throwing out the Pirates' first pitch and giving baseball fans a glimpse of a career that never came to be....

  • [07-05-2012] Ben Roethlisberger Graduates From Miami University of Ohio
    Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has graduated from Miami University in southwest Ohio, about nine years after leaving for the NFL. The university says the 30-year-old Roethlisberger received his bachelor's...

  • [07-05-2012] Ben Roethlisberger graduates from Miami University
    Eight years after being drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers, Ben Roethlisberger returns to Miami University and accepts his diploma as a college graduate....

  • [02-05-2012] Wadsworth elementary principal wins state award
    WADSWORTH: As if welcoming a rock star, students at Overlook Elementary screamed and applauded Principal Erin Simpson after they learned she won an award declaring her the best principal in the state.The Ohio Association of Elementary...

  • [29-04-2012] Steelers address needs with lineman-heavy draft
    Kevin Colbert spent the days leading up to the NFL Draft stressing the Pittsburgh Steelers would focus on "want" and not "need." Maybe, but it's no coincidence the general manager wanted...

  • [28-04-2012] Steelers draft Ohio State tackle Mike Adams
    The Pittsburgh Steelers had no interest in drafting Ohio State's Mike Adams after the talented but troubled offensive tackle tested positive for marijuana at the NFL Combine in February. When Adams reached out to the Steelers for a...