This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-2-22-19 Featured
Written by Jeanne DestroThis week, more big cyber attacks, new life-saving chemical sensors, Ford recalling more than a million vehicles, and a new dating app---for cows!
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1590 WAKR Student Athletes of the Week Brandon Evans and Alexis Radcliff
Written by Aaron ColemanThe 1590 WAKR Male Student Athlete of the Week from Kenmore-Garfield High School is Brandon Evans, a senior basketball player.
Brandon says he fell in love with the game of basketball at an early age.
"I just instantly had an interest for it, and I've played from 5 years old and I just never stopped," he said.
Brandon's a three sport athlete at Kenmore-Garfield with football, basketball, and cross-country.
He says the balance between academics and athletics is a tough, but managable one.
"School is always the first priority of mine, he said.
His coach Murray Hooten says Brandon's a leader on and off the court.
"Brandon Evans is a good student in the classroom and an amazing athlete on the court. He has an oustanding work-ethic that allows him to compete at a high level for us. Brandon leads by example and I wish we had him in our program for one more year. He will be a great asset to any college program he decides to play in."
Among some of the highlights for Brandon include being named Player of the Month for December, an honor he was truly proud of.
"It felt good and it felt like my talents are being noticed and that my hard work and dedication has been noticed.
Upon graduation in the spring, Brandon plans on studying sports medicine.
Our next Student Athlete of the Week is Alexis Radcliff a senior basketball player from Kenmore Garfield.
She said she got into basketball at an early age and stuck with it ever since,
"I didn't get serious until my junior year, and then my senior year has been a great one for me.
Among some of the honors for Alexis this year, Academic All City, Player of the Year, and First Team All City.
Coach Yontami Jones had this to say about Alexis.
"We are truly going to miss our leader on and off the court!," she said.
"Alexis is like a daughter to me. I was truly blessed to have her as a player!!"
She says the best thing about being a student athlete at Kenmore-Garfield is the family atmosphere.
"I love the school and I love how we all support each other through everything.
Upon graduation in the spring, Radcliff plans on studying business management.
We wish Brandon and Alexis the best in all of their future endeavors.
On Wednesday afternoon, Akron Police Officers responded to a call of a woman overdosing at a gas station on Mogadore Road about noon, according to the report. When they arrived, they found the woman passed out in the front passenger seat of a Buick and an 11 month old baby boy in the back seat.
Paramedics responded to the scene, reviving the woman with narcan, and then transporting her to Akron City.
While police were still there, the child's father, 29-year-old Andrew C. Carter of Mogadore, was arrested when he returned to the car. He's been booked into the Summit County Jail on felony child endangering charges. The baby, meanwhile, is in the custody of Child Services.
The woman later told police they'd bought Fentanyl along Manchester Road.
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(APD) Around noon yesterday, officers responded to an overdose at a gas station in the 2500 block of Mogadore Road. When officers arrived, they observed an unresponsive female in the front seat of a 1998 Buick Century. Officers then observed the female’s 11 month old son in the back seat of the car. While paramedics were administering Narcan to the female, the male driver came over to the car.
Paramedics revived the female and transported her to Akron City Hospital for further treatment. The adult male, Andrew C. Carter, 29, of Herbert Street in Mogadore, was charged with child endangering and booked into the Summit County Jail. The child was placed into the custody of the Summit County Child Services.
The female stated they bought Fentanyl on Manchester Road.
Last week there was hope when Geronimo, the pit bull terrier who had been at the Humane Society of Summit County Shelter for more than eleven hundred days, was adopted!
Unfortunately, and at no fault of the adopting family, Geronimo's forever home didn't last, and now he's back to the unforutnately familiar confines of the county.
Now, the Humane Society is making a plea for Geronimo to find his for real forever home, with a recent Facebook post detailing his needs (See below).
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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-2-15-19 Featured
Written by Jeanne Destro
This week, we’re looking at all kinds of technology—from race car tires, to satellites. We’ll also hear about how Jeff Bezos’ racy texts and selfies sparked a national scandal, the economic impact of fracking, and how technology is helping us find love—in the refrigerator.
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UPDATE: The Portage County Sheriff's Office says Deputy Michael Bussinger is being treated at the burn unit at an Akron-area hospital, but there was not update on his condition yet this morning.
Meanwhile, 45-year-old Jay E. Brannon, the suspect who reportedly had a metal can filled with a flammable liquid that he lit and then tossed at Deputy Bussinger, has been charged with five counts of attempted aggravated murder and five counts of aggravated arson.
It happened while deputies were serving a warrant on Brannon at his apartment in Rootstown. According to the Beacon, Brannon was one of Portage County's Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives.
(Jay E. Brannon - Portage County Jail)
A deputy with the Portage County Sheriff was set on fire while serving a felony warrant Thursday night, according to a release from Sheriff David Doak.
Around 6:45, deputies arrived at the suspect's residence in the 3900 block of State Route 44. As the deputy approached the suspect, he threw a flammable liquid onto the deputy and then lit it on fire, burning the deputy and setting the building on fire.
The deputy was taken to the burn unit at an Akron hospital, and according to the Sheriff, other officers were treated for smoke inhalation.
The suspect was taken into custody. Sheriff Doak is expected to release more information today.
An Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper and two others were injured, and the trooper's cruiser destroyed, when a commercial semi truck slammed into the vehicle that was parked along I-77 in Stark County Thursday.
The Patrol posted an update, and photo, to Facebook after the accident, reminding everyone that it is the law to move over when police or other emergency vechiles are parked with lights flashing along the side of state highways.
The patrol says the trooper and others injured are expected to be OK.
1590 WAKR Student Athletes of the Week Tommy Cummings and Kyra Dossa
Written by Aaron ColemanThis week our 1590 WAKR Male Student Athlete of the Week is Tommy Cummings, a senior basketball player from Walsh Jesuit High School.