First, the good news: The average annual premium for health insurance provided by employers increased by only 3 percent this year, according to a national report released on Thursday.

A baby sitter accused of killing a toddler during a sleepover in her Green apartment was indicted Thursday by a grand jury on a murder charge.

A 27-year-old Akron woman diagnosed as a battered spouse has been sentenced to five years in prison for the fatal stabbing of her estranged husband.

Tests for one algal toxin from Berlin Reservoir were negative. That announcement came Thursday from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the 3,590-acre reservoir on the borders of Portage, Stark and Mahoning counties.

The Akron police union has no immediate intention of supporting a ballot proposal that would shift portions of school construction money to city safety forces.

People often turn to eBay to pick up beloved toys from bygone years. One childhood icon currently up for sale would take up a whole lot of space in someone's backyard, not to mention beaucoup bucks.

The city of Akron will celebrate Bike Week starting Friday. Events, which actually extend over the next 10 days, include bicycle tours, mountain bike excursions, bike-maintenance workshops and even a bicycle scavenger hunt.

When Kylie Sees and Sean Rich started the new school year on Wednesday at the National Inventors Hall of Fame School, the seventh-graders got a challenging assignment.

AKRON Players fined AKRON: Two Akron Aeros players have been convicted of disorderly conduct in connection with the June 3 beating of a downtown nightclub patron.

Stark • Hay, Fay G., 99, of Canton. Died Wednesday. Spiker-Foster-Shriver.

Northeast Ohio rock music history gets a brisk, hourlong overview — from Alan Freed to Kid Cudi — at 7 tonight on WKYC (Channel 3).

SILVER SPRING, Md.: A gunman police shot to death after he took hostages at Discovery Channel's headquarters said he hated the company's shows such as "Kate Plus 8" because they promote population growth and its environmental programming because it did little to save the planet.

LOS ANGELES: Grammy-winning rapper T.I., who is still on probation after spending time behind bars on gun charges, was arrested along with his wife on drug charges after police smelled alleged marijuana coming from their car, authorities said.

If it's Thursday, this must be the mailbag. . . . Q: When I was a child in the '50s, I loved a cartoon called ''Crusader Rabbit.'' Do you have any information about this cartoon and know if it is available in any form?