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Woman loses scalp in workplace accident

Last updated Wednesday, July 4, 2012 - 8:30am

AKRON, Ohio - A Ohio woman is hospitalized after her scalp was ripped from her head when her hair became caught in a machine during her shift at an automotive parts company.

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Protective gear saves life of SWAT officer in shootout

Phil Trexler Akron Beacon Journal

Last updated Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 5:55pm

AKRON, Ohio-A Summit County SWAT officer will never take his equipment for granted.

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Woman accused of forcing 11-year-old daughter into prostitution

Phil Trexler Akron Beacon Journal

Last updated Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 11:07am

AKRON, Ohio-The girl says she had been with dozens of middle-age men in Ohio and Mexico - all before she turned 13.

Now, at age 16, she is about to give birth to her third child. She blames her circumstances on her mother, who now sits in the Summit County Jail facing felony prostitution charges for selling the child to Akron-area men.

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$15 debt might have prompted child's abduction

Phil Trexler Akron Beacon Journal

Last updated Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 7:23pm

AKRON, Ohio -- Shauntay Jeffery spent five hours unable to do more than pray for the safe return of her 2-year-old daughter. The alleged abductor's phone call only made the wait worse.

Her daughter, Lanaysia, was outside the family's Lake Street home playing with her siblings at about 8 p.m. Monday when word reached Jeffery that the girl was taken by her aunt.

Police say the relative may have been angry over a $15 debt owed to her.

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18-year-old says he regrets how he posed for police mug shot

Phil Trexler Akron Beacon Journal

Last updated Monday, March 19, 2012 - 5:32pm

AKRON, Ohio -- An Akron man's mug shot, in which he grabbed his crotch and flipped officers his middle finger over his face, has gained local attention after the police department released the photo on its Facebook page.

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