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Akron Beacon Journal
  1. Services being set for Marine
    Beacon Journal staff report Calling hours and funeral services for Marine Gunnery Sgt. Robert Gilbert, who died this week of injuries suffered in Afghanistan, are expected to be next weekend.
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  2. Route for funeral procession for slain Marine
    Members of the public wishing to pay their respects to fallen Marine Gunnery Sgt. Robert Gilbert II may do so along a long funeral procession route Tuesday.
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  3. Macedonia prepares for budget cuts and layoffs
    MACEDONIA: The City Council will vote Thursday on a budget that includes a 10 percent cut across the board — virtually guaranteeing layoffs and reductions in just about every department.
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  4. Hattie's Cafe near UA to close
    Heather Dohnal has worked at Hattie's Cafe & Gifts on Brown Street in Akron since it opened a little more than two years ago.
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  5. Traffic light at off-ramp misplaced?
    If you'd poll the drivers who routinely use the freeway ramps on the northwest side of Akron, most of them would probably tell you two things:
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  6. Dinner to aid transplant patient
    Because an extraordinarily thoughtful and unselfish stranger considered the What if? and signed an organ donor card, or because that decision was made by a loved one, a young Akron woman is literally breathing much easier.
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  7. Akron City Council defends prayer before meetings
    When Tom Reke went to a recent Akron City Council meeting, he was surprised to hear a local minister refer to Jesus in a prayer before the meeting.
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  8. City at impasse in police negotiations
    For the second time this week, Akron has reached an impasse with one of its unions. The city and the police union agreed Thursday that they were too far apart to reach an agreement. The two sides will enter the fact-finding process through the State Employment Relations Board (SERB.)
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  9. Spacewalk beams with IMAX
    The new IMAX documentary Hubble covers a lot of ground in 43 minutes: a short history of the space telescope, footage of the May 2009 space shuttle mission to repair and upgrade it, and images the telescope has beamed back from the depths of space.
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  10. Kovatch Castings gets approval to expand
    GREEN: A Green manufacturing company received approval to expand its facilities and create 30 to 45 more jobs in the city.
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Entertainment
  1. Spacewalk beams with IMAX
    The new IMAX documentary Hubble covers a lot of ground in 43 minutes: a short history of the space telescope, footage of the May 2009 space shuttle mission to repair and upgrade it, and images the telescope has beamed back from the depths of space.
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  2. Demi Moore's Twitter account part of suicide help
    CASSELBERRY, FLA.: Actresses Demi Moore and Nia Vardalos were linked to an online chain of Twitter posts that ultimately led to Florida authorities intervening Friday when an 18-year-old man threatened to commit suicide.
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  3. Volunteer day promoted to honor Mister Rogers
    PITTSBURGH: Mister Rogers cared deeply about his neighbors and his neighborhood, both in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and in real life.
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  4. Producer/ex-boyfriend files $30 million suit against Lady Gaga
    NEW YORK: Lady Gaga's spokesman is declining to comment on a music producer's lawsuit. Rob Fusari filed the $30.5 million lawsuit in Manhattan against the Grammy Award-winning performer on Wednesday. He said his protege and former girlfriend ditched him as her career soared.
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  1. Walsh Jesuit falls short in fourth
    COLUMBUS: Walsh Jesuit couldn't get to its second Division II state final in school history Thursday at Value City Arena.
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  2. Telfair making progress from injury
    CHICAGO: Although he doesn't know when he will be back on the court, point guard Sebastian Telfair, who was acquired in the trade that also brought forward Antawn Jamison to the Cavaliers, expects it will be soon.
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  3. Ilgauskas back in Cleveland area
    AVON: Zydrunas Ilgauskas is back in the Cleveland area three days before he is eligible to re-sign with the Cavaliers.
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  4. Ohio University fans take to the streets after upset win in NCAA Tournament
    ATHENS, OHIO: Ohio University students chanted ''O-U, Oh yeah!'' in a street celebration following the school's upset win over Georgetown on Day 1 of the NCAA basketball tournament.
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  5. St. V-M wins on furious rally
    CANTON: The luck of the Irish continued the day after St. Patrick's Day. St. Vincent-St. Mary came up with one of its most memorable comebacks in recent memory in a 74-60 victory over Poland Seminary on Thursday night in a Division II boys basketball regional semifinal at the Canton Memorial Civic Center.
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