AKRON, Ohio — More than 200 Ellet High School students received their diplomas Friday night at Akron Civic Theatre. Among them was an 87-year-old man getting an honorary diploma, 60 years after he left school for the military. Floyd Edward Hoskins, known to friends and family members as Ed, left Ellet High School in 1949 […]
CLEVELAND — 1956 started off as a pretty good year for then 23-year-old Richard Veres. He was a senior in the Fenn College of Engineering, which is now Cleveland State. He had met a pretty girl named Donna who he would eventually marry. And he was sure he had a job lined up with Reliance […]
WASHINGTON — The Oakland Police Department fired tear gas on Occupy Oakland demonstrators Tuesday night as they marched through downtown, determined to reclaim the camp that officers destroyed that morning. As the marchers zigged and zagged in search of safe ground, authorities bombarded and barricaded the activists into a drawn-out stalemate that resulted in further […]
This is one of those stories that will get your blood pressure on 10! A severely disabled veteran’s plans to build a home were cancelled at the last minute after local homeowners decided it would lower property values and not fit in with the neighborhood. The Knob Hill Property Owners Association issued a cease-and-desist order as […]