We are now archiving all the stories in this section starting from June 1, 2000. Go to the archive. This is the place. A University of Akron student waits to begin the often tiresome search for a parking space at a lot near Fir Hill and Buchtel Avenue. There are twice as many students as spaces.
Construction makes it worse.
New group tells about scam risks A committee has been formed in the Akron area to educate the police, prosecutors, banks and citizens about potential financial scams aimed at the elderly. It was designed to help protect seniors from having their savings raided. The young men from Canton, Massillon and Alliance were members of the 987th Armored Field Artillery, a National Guard unit that was activated that night for duty in the Korean War. The Akron school board yesterday decided that the administrative salary study, conducted to make the district more competitive in attracting and retaining employees, left them with more questions than it answered. Katie Byard Beacon Journal staff writer Kristen Consolo was studying asphalt yesterday morning when she should have been cracking the books in her University of Akron biomedical ethics class.