Bamuamba Kabeya is an immigrant who opposes illegal immigration and is politically conservative – not something you would expect from someone living in a homeless shelter. However, Kabeya, a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is an engineering graduate, who is studying statistics at the University of Akron. Instead of abusing "the system," he is using it to better himself. His ultimate goal is to start a tutoring business.
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Action to clean up Mahoning slows to a trickle.
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Tim Saxton enrolled in the only Advanced Placement course that Boardman High School offered when he attended in the early 1980s.
When he became principal of his alma mater in 2001, the district still offered only AP calculus. But since 2004, that has changed. Boardman’s current AP classes — seven — are on par with larger Ohio high schools.
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Up stream from where Luis Velazquez regularly casts his fishing pole beneath the Liberty-Girard Bridge, the slow moving water glistens in summer sunlight as oil residue creates a thin sliver silhouette along the riverbank. Calmly flowing down stream, water disappears and rushes over one of nine remaining low-head dams along the lower Mahoning River. Just over the crest of the industry made waterfall, fishermen such as Velazquez can often be found along the banks of what former Youngstown Mayor Jay Williams categorizes as the “most grossly underused” physical asset of the Mahoning Valley.
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Wayne County resident Brett Baker graduated from the University of Akron in 2007 with a master’s degree in education. Last year, after being laid off from a charter school in Canton due to budget cuts, he became one of nearly 2,450 Ohio educators who are no longer teaching.
Baker sat anxiously with more than 700 college graduates who packed the Northeast Ohio Education job fair in Akron in March looking for a job in a shrinking job market.
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Professional wrestler Ryan Burke, of Niles, “suffers” the agony of defeat after losing a match. Photo by Leonard Crist.
By LEONARD CRIST
Here’s something you don’t usually want to say to a professional wrestler.
“So this is fake, right?”
Even though pro wrestling impresario Vince McMahon let the cat out of the...
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