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A U.S. appeals court panel in Cincinnati Monday temporarily blocked Thursday's scheduled execution of an Ohio deathrow inmate. Lawrence Reynolds was sentenced to death for the 1994 killing of Loretta Mae Foster, 67, a neighbor in Cuyahoga Falls, a suburb...

Now teammates, and LeBron James and Shaquille O'Neal were opponents one last time. The NBA superstars were on opposing teams on Saturday as the Cleveland Cavaliers held their annual Wine and Gold scrimmage in front of 5,000 fans at the...

Friday, October 16, 2009 ‘Game’ shifts gears nicely from LeBron to team Herald Movie Critic LeBron James is a once-every-20-years basketball player, the kind of guy who gets attention from a young age. Documentary filmmaker Kristopher Belman had the good...

But the Akron institution's funding is down as well, threatening its existence and forcing it to look in a new direction. The derby is looking at technological innovation to get it back up to speed. It wants to broaden its...

Last update: 10/12/09 at 2:04 AM EST After starting the Mid-American Conference season with a 2-1 record, the Ball State University soccer team has lost its past three matches, the most recent against Eastern Michigan University, to drop to 2-4....

Ohio — FirstMerit Corp. said Wednesday that it will enter the Chicago-area banking market by buying 24 branches and $1.2 billion in deposits from First Bank for about $42 million. Under a separate deal, FirstMerit said, it will acquire asset-based...