http://www.recordpub.com/news Homepage articles from www.recordpub.com 2012-02-05T04:02:51Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5153967 Construction projects in Kent are moving at a swift pace. A digger moves dirt at the site of the future Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority Kent Central Gateway transit center, which will feature a transit point for up to 10 PARTA buses at a time, a parking deck for 321 cars and retail space along Erie Street. http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5153967 2012-02-05T04:02:23Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5153965 Five years ago, Ravenna voters decided to make their city elections non-partisan. http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5153965 2012-02-05T04:02:54Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5153968 Plans for how Kent will honor U.S. Army Spc. Adam Hamilton, a native of the city killed in Afghanistan last summer, are continuing to evolve. http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5153968 2012-02-05T04:02:00Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5153969 Times are changing at the Portage County Dog Pound. The numbers are all up for 2011 " from the calls for service to the dogs taken in and the number of dogs adopted out, reunited with their owners and rescued. http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5153969 2012-02-05T04:02:26Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5153970 COLUMBUS - A state lawmaker has again introduced legislation requiring youngsters to wear helmets while riding bicycles. http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5153970 2012-02-05T04:02:40Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5153971 LAS VEGAS - Republican front-runner Mitt Romney cruised to victory in the Nevada caucuses Saturday night, notching a second straight triumph over a field of presidential rivals suddenly struggling to keep pace. http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5153971 2012-02-05T04:02:17Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5153972 BEIRUT - Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at ending Syria's bloodshed, despite international outrage Saturday over a devastating bombardment of the city of Homs by President Bashar Assad's forces. Activists said more than 200 were killed in the bloodiest episode of the nearly 11-month uprising. http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5153972 2012-02-05T04:02:12Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154078 Pair charged with Suffield burglary Record-Courier Staff Report Two Akron residents are charged with burglarizing a Suffield residence in October 2011 after fingerprint evidence linked them to the crime. Melanie M. Wright, 21, and Scott J. Bell, 22, surr http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154078 2012-02-05T04:02:01Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154077 Streetsboro eatery plans new, expanded location By Andrew Parmelee | Gateway News Streetsboro restaurant Stringz & Wingz plans to move to a larger venue in early April. Currently located on 9244 Market Square Drive, the sports bar and restaurant owned by http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154077 2012-02-05T04:02:57Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154076 Shalersville meth bust in 2010 results in guilty plea By Dave O'Brien | Staff Writer A man caught running a methamphetamine laboratory in his grandparents' home on S.R. 44 in Shalersville in October 2010 has pleaded guilty to a criminal charge that could http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154076 2012-02-05T04:02:53Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154075 Sheetz updates for Ravenna are approved by group The Ravenna Planning Commission has given the go-ahead for two upcoming renovation projects for existing buildings in the city. Commission members approved a proposed new building for Sheetz, located at 6 http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154075 2012-02-05T04:02:48Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154073 Planning panel OKs two model homes in Edinburg By MIKE SEVER | STAFF WRITER The Portage County Regional Planning Commission approved a road variance and a replat that will allow Schumacher Homes to build two model homes off S.R. 14 in Edinburg. The road v http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154073 2012-02-05T04:02:46Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154072 Man who dealt pot in Nelson gets probation Record-Courier Staff Report A Lorain County man who sold marijuana to undercover police officers in May 2011 during a concert at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park in Nelson has been sentenced to probation and fined more http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154072 2012-02-05T04:02:44Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154071 Kent Library board organizes for 2012 John Ryan has been named president of the Kent Free Library Board of Trustees for 2012. T.N. Bhargava will serve as vice president and Pamela Petrus will serve as secretary. Officers were elected during the board's http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154071 2012-02-05T04:02:37Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154070 <FEFF>The Portage Foundation recently announced it has exceeded $100,000 in grants to Portage County agencies and non-profits in the areas of health, education, human services, the arts, economic development and the environment. The Foundation also recent http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154070 2012-02-05T04:02:36Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154069 Field Levy Committee sets Feb. 16 fundraiser The Field Levy Committee is hosting a wine tasting from 5 to 9 p.m. Feb. 16 at Viking Vineyard, located at 268 Old Forge Road in Brimfield. Tickets are $10 and include four sample tastings, hors d'oeuvres an http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154069 2012-02-05T04:02:28Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154068 KSU student blames broken heart for crime n Man pleads guilty to breaking into former girlfriend's apartment By Dave O'Brien | Staff Writer A broken heart and a broken window recently led a Kent State University student to plead guilty to burglary charges http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154068 2012-02-05T04:02:25Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154067 Brimfield cops: Man shot at car on I-76 By Dave O'Brien | Staff Writer A road rage incident that started Thursday afternoon in Mahoning County ended peacefully in Brimfield after police there assisted the Ohio Highway Patrol in arresting a man who fired http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154067 2012-02-05T04:02:11Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154066 PORTAGE PATHWAYS: Atwater landmark received deacon's final blessing By Roger J. Di Paolo | Record-Courier Editor One of southern Portage County's most distinctive landmarks is the Atwater Congregational Church, a beautiful Western Reserve-style structur http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154066 2012-02-05T04:02:02Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154039 Ohio to cut, burn trees with deadly insect Associated Press COLUMBUS -- State officials say southern Ohio hemlock trees infested with a deadly bug with be cut down and burned this month to help keep the insects from spreading. The insects, called hemlock http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154039 2012-02-05T04:02:43Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154038 Police raid Occupy D.C. site, hold 7 By ERIC TUCKER | Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Dozens of U.S. Park Police officers in riot gear and on horseback converged before dawn Saturday on one of the nation's last remaining Occupy sites, with police clearing a http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154038 2012-02-05T04:02:21Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154037 Calif. man freed after murder charges dropped By AMY TAXIN | Associated Press YORBA LINDA, Calif. -- A 24-year-old who spent more than three months in jail on charges of murdering his mother and brother was a free man Saturday, a day after prosecutors said http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154037 2012-02-05T04:02:15Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154036 Cop shooting suspect claims he was afraid Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY -- A man accused of fatally shooting a police officer and wounding five others during an Ogden drug raid last month says he feared for his life because he thought people were breakin http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154036 2012-02-05T04:02:12Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154035 Cops: Lost mushroom pickers hid out in tree Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. -- A couple and their adult son who survived six days deep in the Oregon coastal forest took shelter inside a hollowed-out tree after they got lost while looking for mushrooms. Cu http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154035 2012-02-05T04:02:00Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154034 Marine's wife killed in California explosion Associated Press COLEVILLE, Calif. -- The person killed in a propane gas explosion outside a remote Northern California training base was the wife of a U.S. Marine, and the two people seriously injured were a N http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154034 2012-02-05T04:02:54Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154033 5 musicians, 4 others killed in Mexico Associated Press MEXICO CITY -- A masked man opened fire on a band playing popular norteno music Saturday in a Chihuahua city dance hall, killing five musicians, four customers and injuring 10 others. Chihuahua prosec http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154033 2012-02-05T04:02:52Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154032 Student suspended over Jackson dance WINONA, Minn. -- A Catholic school in Minnesota has suspended a 9-year-old boy for performing a crotch-grabbing Michael Jackson dance move during a fundraiser. Mindy Boberg told the Winona Daily News the principal at St http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154032 2012-02-05T04:02:51Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154031 U.S. women call Egypt captors polite, 'kind' CAIRO -- Two California women kidnapped by Bedouin tribesmen tell The Associated Press their Egyptian kidnappers fed them tea and snacks and said they wouldn't hurt them. Patti Ganal of Los Gatos, Calif., and N http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154031 2012-02-05T04:02:25Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154030 12 dead in latest Egypt clashes By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI | Associated Press CAIRO -- Egyptian security forces on Saturday fired tear gas from armored trucks at protesters demanding an end to military rule, as anger over a deadly soccer riot fueled a third day http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154030 2012-02-05T04:02:54Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154029 Some former Komen supporters can't forgive, forget By JOCELYN NOVECK | Associated Press NEW YORK -- When Dorothy Twinney first saw a Race for the Cure walk for breast cancer -- "a sea of pink" traveling through her hometown of Plymouth, Mich. -- she was so m http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154029 2012-02-05T04:02:25Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154028 Border Patrol OT rises as arrests drop By ALICIA A. CALDWELL | Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Border Patrol agents have racked up daily overtime at a cost of about $1.4 billion in the past six years while the number of arrests of illegal border crossers ha http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5154028