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Funeral and Vigil

June 13, 2017

Funeral services for Taylor and Kylie will be Friday, June 16 at Cuyahoga Valley Church, 5055 E. Wallings Road in Broadview Heights at 10:30 a.m.Burial will be private, but the family will receive friends...

Fashion major slain in North Royalton home

June 13, 2017

[View the story "Triple homicide, death of Kent State student Taylor Pifer" on Storify]

The house at 11489 Ridge Rd. in North Royalton, Ohio, where police found the bodies of Suzanne Taylor and her daughters, Taylor and Kylie Pifer.

Cops: Suspect in 3 deaths, including Kent State student, may be involved in 2 more killings

Associated Press June 13, 2017

BRUNSWICK, Ohio (AP) — A man suspected of killing a mother and her two college-age daughters, including Kent State student Taylor Pifer, 21, may also have been involved in the slayings of a married couple...

Drones Two

Ray Padilla June 8, 2017

Students in the Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Aerial Camera Ops course use a controller to pilot a drone on Thursday, June 1, 2017. While piloting, the controller shows what the small aircraft sees...

People gather at Hometown Bank Plaza Stage to hear local artists preform during Main Street Kent's 11th annual Wine and Arts Festival on Sat., June 3, 2017.

11th annual Art and Wine Festival draws large crowds

Kaylee Peterson June 4, 2017

Starting at noon, people filled the streets of downtown for Main Street Kent’s 11th annual Art and Wine Festival Saturday. North Water Street and West Main Street were blocked off for the day to make...

Wonder Woman 1

Photo courtesy of Clay Enos - © 2015 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Ratpac-Dune Entertainment LLC June 3, 2017

Ewen Bremner, Saïd Taghmaoui, Chris Pine, Gal Gadot, and Eugene Brave Rock in Wonder Woman (2017)

Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman (2017)

REVIEW: ‘Wonder Woman’ refreshes superhero origin story with stellar writing and directing

Ray Padilla June 3, 2017

Let me be upfront and say I am probably biased when it comes to any DC Comics movie. I grew up with the comics, and I still buy them every single week, even though my bank account keeps telling me not...

Libyan story SIDEBAR 2 — The currency problem in Libya and the Black Market

Jenna May 26, 2017

“The facts that one, not much revenue is coming into the country while a lot keeps going out to import food, etcetera and two, the CBL's funds are dwindling,” said David Kirkpatrick, Middle East correspondent...

Libyan story SIDEBAR — Conflict history and economic struggles

Jenna May 26, 2017

According to BBC news reports, in September 1969, Muammar Gaddafi became the dictator of Libya and remained in power for nearly 42 years before in 2011, he was thrust out of power in the search for democracy...

Kent Connects

May 12, 2017

“Kent Connects” is a television news magazine at Kent State, and it showcases work from the "Advanced Television News Producing" course in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC). The...

Katherine Langford in "13 Reasons Why."

Danger in fiction: How Netflix’s ’13 Reasons Why’ raised alarms with a single scene

Benjamin VanHoose May 9, 2017

Normally, this is where a spoiler alert would be, but that type of warning would imply that the reader should watch the show at hand.Some professionals in Kent would urge otherwise when it comes to one...