“I just want to get better,” Holmes told the Beacon Journal by phone Wednesday ... Kent State and Akron will play in women's basketball Wagon Wheel rivalry game Saturday at Rhodes Arena ...

In the first Wagon Wheel game between the teams this season ... we certainly can get clipped.” John Hilber is an Akron Beacon Journal correspondent. You can contact him at [email protected].

After two days of dredging, a crane on Friday pulled from the Columbia River a Ford station wagon that officials believe belonged to an Oregon family who disappeared while on a trip 66 years ago ...