The Ohio Senate voted unanimously on March 25 to designate a stretch of Interstate 480 in Cuyahoga County as the Officer Jacob J. Derbin Memorial Highway, honoring the Euclid police officer who was killed in the line of duty in May 2024. Senate Bill 334, introduced by State Sen. Jerry Cirino (R-District 18), passed 32-0. The bill designates the eastbound and westbound lanes of I-480 between Lancaster Drive and I-77 as the memorial highway. It now moves to the Ohio House of Representatives for consideration.Derbin, 23, of Brooklyn Heights, Ohio, was fatally shot on May 11, 2024, while resp...

Kent State University and the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics are proud to announce the establishment of the Dr. Curtis Stone Memorial Track and Field Fund, a scholarship created through a $750,000 gift from Sara Stone Miller, '77, M.M. '79, Ph.D. '85, and her late husband, Terry Ellis Miller, Ph.D. The fund honors the legacy of Sara's father, Curtis Charles Stone, D.Ed, a three-time Olympian, World War II veteran and educator.Curtis, who served on Kent State's faculty from 1963 to 1985, was one of America's premier long-distance runners in the 1940s and 1950s. He represented the Unite...