http://www.recordpub.com/news Homepage articles from www.recordpub.com 2010-03-14T04:03:02Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788327 he Ravenna Police Department no longer has an officer assigned to the Portage County Drug Task Force, the multi-jurisdictional agency that investigates the drug trade in Portage County, the department announced this week. http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788327 2010-03-14T04:03:12Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788328 Come December, regular visitors to downtown Kent will hardly recognize the crumbling alleyway that connects South DePeyster and South Water streets and runs parallel to Erie and East Main streets. The unnamed alleyway, officially referred to as Alley 4 by the city, is slated for a complete makeover beginning this summer. http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788328 2010-03-14T04:03:18Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788329 Tickets are available for the Kent City Schools Hall of Fame dinner and induction ceremony, which will be held Saturday, April 10, to honor individuals from the Class of 2009 and 2010. The Hall of Fame program will be held at Theodore Roosevelt High School. http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788329 2010-03-14T04:03:36Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788330 Isaac Mulcahy looks for goodies in a basket at one of the business booths at the Aurora Chamber of Commerce's Business and Community Expo Saturday. The event at Aurora High School included giveways, live entertainment and representatives from commercial businesses, nonprofit organizations, clubs, city departments and the Aurora School District. Event sponsor Aurora Farms Premium Outlets staged a fashion show and Spa Walden offered makeovers. http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788330 2010-03-14T04:03:00Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788442 PORTAGE PATHWAYS: Teenager carried the mail for Brimfield By Roger J. Di Paolo Record-Courier Editor Martin Boszor was only 15 years old when he became a mail carrier. He worked only one day a week but the job the teenager held for four years was an imp http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788442 2010-03-14T04:03:37Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788331 Portage County Adult Probation Department's Intensive Supervision Program has been awarded a certificate of excellence in community-based corrections programs in statewide competition for the 2009 Cliff Skeen Award. Over 200 programs throughout Ohio were considered or nominated. http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788331 2010-03-14T04:03:43Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788332 As part of the Kent State University Centennial Celebration, the Cleveland Orchestra, with conductor James Feddeck, returns to Kent State to perform a benefit concert at 8 p.m. Friday. The evening's highlight will be Schubert Symphony No. 5, in addition to works by Beethoven and Mozart. http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788332 2010-03-14T04:03:51Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788333 Empower Portage will offer free Bridges Out of Poverty diversity training to Portage County residents from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday and from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. April 1 in room 101 at Riverwood Community Chapel in Kent. http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788333 2010-03-14T04:03:55Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788335 Four of the professors who took part in researching Ardipithecus ramidus, a 4.4 million-year-old hominid skeleton unveiled last year, will speak March 24 at Kent State University. http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788335 2010-03-14T04:03:34Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788443 RMH names VP of patient care Robinson Memorial Hospital in Ravenna recently named Linda Breedlove the new vice president of patient care services to serve as the organization's chief nursing officer. Breedlove will coordinate the functions of all inpatie http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788443 2010-03-14T04:03:10Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788441 Kelsey nets achievement award from Ohio board Jay Kelsey, a member of the Rootstown and Maplewood Career Center boards of education, will be presented with the Ohio School Boards Association's Award of Achievement. The Award of Achievement is given to boa http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788441 2010-03-14T04:03:59Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788440 Cleveland Orchestra to perform at Kent State As part of the Kent State University Centennial Celebration, the Cleveland Orchestra, with conductor James Feddeck, returns to Kent State to perform a benefit concert at 8 p.m. Friday. The evening's highlight w http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788440 2010-03-14T04:03:53Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788439 Portage probation program a winner Portage County Adult Probation Department's Intensive Supervision Program has been awarded a certificate of excellence in community-based corrections programs in statewide competition for the 2009 Cliff Skeen Award. Ove http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788439 2010-03-14T04:03:51Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788437 Ardi researchers to discuss their discovery on March 24 at KSU Four of the professors who took part in researching Ardipithecus ramidus, a 4.4 million-year-old hominid skeleton unveiled last year, will speak March 24 at Kent State University. C. Owen Love http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788437 2010-03-14T04:03:38Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788435 Bridges Out of Poverty diversity training set Wednesday in Kent Empower Portage will offer free Bridges Out of Poverty diversity training to Portage County residents from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday and from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. April 1 in room 101 at River http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788435 2010-03-14T04:03:36Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788368 Acorn's opponents to fight a return try By JoAnne Viviano Associated Press COLUMBUS -- The community organizing group ACORN is not expressly prohibited from returning to Ohio under a settlement reached in a lawsuit that claimed it used fraudulent voter reg http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788368 2010-03-14T04:03:34Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788367 National curriculum to help state Associated Press COLUMBUS -- Education researchers say Ohio's students will be better able to compete with those in top performing nations due to the state's participation in a new national curriculum plan. Ohio is to be a http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788367 2010-03-14T04:03:33Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788366 Google to end China Web site NEW YORK -- A newspaper Web site reported Saturday that Google Inc. is "99.9 percent" sure to close its search engine in China after negotiations over censorship stalled. The Financial Times cited an unnamed source familiar wit http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788366 2010-03-14T04:03:32Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788365 Snail mucus is part of ritual MIAMI -- Devotees of a man who claims to practice a traditional African religion say they were sickened when they drank the mucus of a giant African snail. Federal authorities in January raided Charles L. Stewart's home after http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788365 2010-03-14T04:03:30Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788364 Obama promises brighter education futures Associated Press ATLANTA -- President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academi http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788364 2010-03-14T04:03:28Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788362 Irish police free suspects in death plot Associated Press DENVER -- An American woman and three others arrested in Ireland over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks have been freed without charge, Irish police said Saturday. Seven peopl http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788362 2010-03-14T04:03:26Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788361 Hearts may swoon when stocks do, study suggests Associated Press ATLANTA -- Stock market slides may hurt more than your savings. New research suggests they might prompt heart attacks. Duke University researchers found a link between how a key stock index p http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788361 2010-03-14T04:03:25Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788359 Sen. Reid's wife improving Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife has been transferred out of a Virginia hospital's intensive care unit and is improving after she was seriously injured in an accident on an interstate http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788359 2010-03-14T04:03:17Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788358 Cartel rift prompts new border violence Associated Press REYNOSA, Mexico -- This border city and others near the eastern end of the U.S. border escaped the worst of Mexico's bloody drug war for years, but now the bodies are piling up, several journalists a http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788358 2010-03-14T04:03:16Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788357 Suicide squads kill at least 30 KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A suicide squad detonated bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters and two other locations late Saturday, killing at least 30 people in the largest city of the southern Taliban heartlan http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788357 2010-03-14T04:03:11Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788355 Officials defend pope on clergy abuse of minors By Frances D'Emilio Associated Press VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican on Saturday denounced what it called aggressive attempts to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of pedophile priests in his Germ http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788355 2010-03-14T04:03:54Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788325 Obama, Medvedev encouraged on arms talk accord Associated Press WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Saturday had what the White House described as an "encouraging" phone conversation with Russian President Dmitrty Medvedev as the two countries sought http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788325 2010-03-14T04:03:45Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788283 Pelosi: Confident House will pass health care bill Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Saturday she's confident the House will pass health care legislation and dismissed Republican criticism that she did not have enough votes http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788283 2010-03-14T04:03:05Z http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788020 'Mark Twain' to appear March 20 Kent Unitarian Universalist Church Ted Voneida will appear as Mark Twain at 7 p.m. March 20 at the Unitarian Universalist Church of kent, 228 Gougler Ave. The performance will feature new material, including new insights i http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4788020