The Cleveland Browns have signed another quarterback.

Northeast Ohio native Brian Hoyer has signed a two year deal. He played college football with the Michigan State Spartans.

He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the New England Patriots in 2009, and played 15 games over the years, including one start with the Arizona Cardinals late last year. He was also with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2012, but did not play.

Browns head coach Rob Chudzinski says Hoyer brings "experience and a solid reputation" to the team.

Hoyer is a North Olmsted native who attended Cleveland's St. Ignatius High School.

A cyber-attack, apparently from those interested in the Middle East, has had Akron tech workers fighting back.

The message visible to some trying to reach city of Akron information Thursday afternoon appeared to come from a group called "TurkishAjan".

The message, in Turkish and in English, decried U.S. policy in the Middle East.

Akron city chief information officer Rick Schmahl says the database attack appeared aimed at public information databases, not at workers or sensitive city information.

"At this point, it appears that everything was public facing data," Schmahl tells AkronNewsNow.com, "that there wasn't any personally identifiable information involved or anything."

An Akron-based security consultant tells AkronNewsNow that the group's Twitter account linked several files posted to a hacker website that have various names, passwords, Social Security and old credit card numbers.

Tyler Hudak of KoreLogic Security says the information looks like it could be legitimate, but there's no way yet to know if it came from city of Akron servers.

Schmahl says they're still looking into the nature of the attack.

"Whether that happened as a concerted effort from a group of people, or whether it was an automated attack that just rolls every website in the world trying to find this vulnerability just to wreck havoc," Schmahl says, "that, we're not sure of yet."

He says Akron information workers are analyzing the attack, making sure it, or one like it, doesn't happen again.

Hudak says that may be a difficult task, depending on how far the hackers got into city computers.

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(Earlier ANN coverage) The city of Akron's website is under a hacker attack this afternoon.

Those who can get through to the city's website at all may see messages claiming to be from a hacking group called "TurkishAjan".

AkronNewsNow.com encountered the messages at around 2 p.m. Thursday afternoon.

The messages in Turkish and in English decry the United States for its involvement in the Middle East.

City information officials say they're aware of the attack and are working to thwart it.

The mother of a young Akron woman last seen May 3 made her plea to Akron City Council Monday night.

Carmilla Robinson spoke of the pain of spending Mothers Day without Taylor.

"She's 19, this is my first Mother's Day I ever spent without her," Carmillla told council members and those attending council's Monday meeting. "She's my first kid, so this is...she's the reason I was a Mom."

Carmilla says she doesn't want to be like Gina DeJesus' mother had to be

"I don't want to be like Gina's mom and the only one still hoping and believing for 10 years that my baby's still alive," Carmilla Robinson said to Akron City Council. "I just don't want people to forget that I'm still looking for her."

In a story that captured worldwide attention, Gina, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight were found in a Cleveland home after being missing for 10 years.

Carmilla says she wants to ensure Taylor Robinson is not just a name.

"I don't want people to just let Taylor be a name in a newspaper or a face on a telephone pole," Carmilla said. "She's not just that."

Council president Gary Moneypenny said the body has the Robinson family in their hearts and prayers.

Earlier, Carmilla Robinson had expressed frustration over the slow pace of the police investigation into her daughter's disappearance.

Moneypenny said he talked to police over the weekend, including Akron Police Chief James Nice, and was assured they had the case at the top of their agenda.

"(Chief Nice) says it's their top priority," Moneypenny responded to Carmilla Robinson, "and informs me that even the FBI is greatly assisting in this investigation."

Carmilla Robinson says forgetting her missing daughter isn't possible for those who love her.

On a very light agenda Monday for Akron City Council was one major piece of business.

Council voted to sell a building at 1240 Triplett Boulevard that has been used by the city's communications department to local company J.W. DiDado Electric.

The electrical contractor is paying $845,000 for the building, near Kelly Avenue and I-76.

Councilman at large Jeff Fusco says the communications operations will move to an existing city building, and that the Triplett Boulevard location is convenient for its new owners.

Ohio's Attorney General came to Akron on Thursday, launching a statewide anti-crime initiative.

The "Safe Neighborhoods Initiative" is aimed at decreasing violent crime by targeting the most violent offenders.

At an event at Akron's House of the Lord Church flanked by local officials and law enforcement, Attorney General Mike DeWine recounted recent high profile violent events in Akron, and promised state resources to help.

But DeWine said the community's cooperation is important to fixing the problem.

"We all know only it's up to the community to make it work. Because it is, the people behind me, it's their community," DeWine noted, looking at a crowd filled with Akron officials and law enforcement officers, including Akron police chief James Nice. "It's up to the community to retake the streets."

DeWine said kids only grow up once, something that's hard to do in violent neighborhoods.

"We need to give kids in these violent neighborhoods their childhood back," DeWine said. "We need to give them their neighborhood back."

Akron mayor Don Plusquellic says he welcomes the program starting in Akron, and notes cooperation between local, state and federal law enforcers in the city.
 

A number of Summit County voters had something to vote on today, and the votes are now all in in Summit and Portage Counties.

The May 7 ballot featured a number of school issues, including levy requests in the Barberton, Coventry, Cuyahoga Falls, Manchester, and Mogadore districts.

Winners include Barberton, which passed a 8.45 mill additional emergency levy that superintendent Patty Cleary says will forestall possible cuts in elementary art and music programs, end the possible doubling of pay to participate fees, and which will restore busing to a 1-mile radius in the district starting next school year. Buses in the Barberton district were picking up students 2-miles from school under state minimum guidelines.

Efforts to get an issue passed in Coventry finally bore fruit; an additional six-mill levy will help consolidate schools and go toward building a new high school. The measure passed by a comfortable 11 percentage point margin.

Voters in the Manchester district passed a 9.8 mill renewal levy.

Cuyahoga Falls voters rejected a 3 mill additional levy that school superintendent Dr. Todd Nichols tells AkronNewsNow would have increased safety, security and technology in the district and updated school buses. Dr. Nichols says he's "disappointed" with the final, unofficial returns, which have voters rejecting the levy by a 57 to 43 percent margin.

The final, unofficial returns showed Mogadore's levy going down to defeat, with voters in both Summit and Portage Counties rejecting the 5.9 mill additional levy by a vote of 350 to 252.

In Portage County, returns show Kent City Schools' additional levy winning with about 61% of the vote.

The final, unofficial results from the Summit County Board of Elections and the Portage County Board of Elections are shown below.

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SUMMARY REPORT        2013 Special Election            Final Unofficial
Run Date:05/07/13     Summit County
RUN TIME:09:27 PM     May 7, 2013

                                                       VOTES PERCENT

           PRECINCTS COUNTED (OF 67) .  .  .  .  .        67  100.00
           REGISTERED VOTERS - TOTAL .  .  .  .  .    72,965
           BALLOTS CAST - TOTAL.  .  .  .  .  .  .    14,228
           VOTER TURNOUT - TOTAL  .  .  .  .  .  .             19.50

          Issue 1 - City of Macedonia
          Proposed Tax Levy - (Renewal) 1 mil, Fire, 5 years
          (Vote for Not More Than )  1
              (WITH 6 OF 6 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
           FOR THE TAX LEVY .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       412   79.54
           AGAINST THE TAX LEVY.  .  .  .  .  .  .       106   20.46

          Issue 2 - Village of Reminderville
          Proposed Tax Levy - (Replace) 3 mil, Road, 5 years
          (Vote for Not More Than )  1
              (WITH 2 OF 2 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
           FOR THE TAX LEVY .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .        36   57.14
           AGAINST THE TAX LEVY.  .  .  .  .  .  .        27   42.86

          Issue 3 - Barberton CSD
          Proposed Tax Levy - (Add) - 8.45 mil, Emergency, 5 yrs
          (Vote for Not More Than )  1
              (WITH 15 OF 15 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
           FOR THE TAX LEVY .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     2,378   54.63
           AGAINST THE TAX LEVY.  .  .  .  .  .  .     1,975   45.37

          Issue 4 - Cuyahoga Falls CSD
          Proposed Tax Levy - (Add) - Improvements, 3 mil, 5 years
          (Vote for Not More Than )  1
              (WITH 26 OF 26 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
           AGAINST THE TAX LEVY.  .  .  .  .  .  .     2,091   57.22
           FOR THE TAX LEVY .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     1,563   42.78

          Issue 5 - Coventry LSD
          Bond/Tax Issue - (Add) - 6 mil total, Const, 34 years
          (Vote for Not More Than )  1
              (WITH 15 OF 15 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
           FOR THE BOND ISSUE AND LEVY  .  .  .  .     2,184   55.22
           AGAINST THE BOND ISSUE AND LEVY .  .  .     1,771   44.78

          Issue 6 - Manchester LSD
          Proposed Tax Levy - (Renewal) - 9.8 mil, Cur. Exp., Cont
          (Vote for Not More Than )  1
              (WITH 6 OF 6 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
           FOR THE TAX LEVY .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       711   72.04
           AGAINST THE TAX LEVY.  .  .  .  .  .  .       276   27.96

          Issue 7 - Mogadore LSD
          Proposed Tax Levy - (Add) - 5.9 mil, Cur. Exp., Cont.
          (Vote for Not More Than )  1
              (WITH 2 OF 2 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
           AGAINST THE TAX LEVY.  .  .  .  .  .  .       337   57.41
           FOR THE TAX LEVY .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       250   42.59

          Issue 8 - Canal Fulton Library
          Proposed Tax Levy - (Add) - 1 mil, Cur. Exp., Continuing
          (Vote for Not More Than )  1
              (WITH 5 OF 5 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
           AGAINST THE TAX LEVY.  .  .  .  .  .  .        69   63.30
           FOR THE TAX LEVY .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .        40   36.70



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Troopers are investigating a single-car crash early Sunday morning in Wayne County that killed one of the car's occupants.

The Wooster post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol says that 29 year-old Earnest Nelson of Orrville was driving a car that drifted off the right side of Church Road (County Road 7) east of State Route 94 at just after 5 AM Sunday.

The car struck a creek embankment then struck a tree before coming to rest.

Killed in the crash was 25 year-old Tremale Thomas of Wooster, a passenger in the car's back seat.

Nelson and a front seat passenger, 29 year-old Lance Almond, were treated and released from area hospitals.

It's not known if Thomas was wearing a seat belt, or how he died. Highway Patrol troopers are also investigating any possible use of drugs or alcohol in the crash.

Two workers have been killed in an industrial accident at Timken Company's Faircrest Plant in Stark County's Perry Township when a crane collapsed..

Brian Black and Mark Tovissi were working at the plant for Beaver Excavating.

Chief investigator Harry Campbell with the Stark County Coroner's Office says that the men were preparing a load to be lifted by an overhead crane.

"There was some type of a failure of the crane," Campbell tells AkronNewsNow.com, "which caused the boom to fall, striking both of them."

Campbell says the accident happened at about 12:50 on Saturday afternoon.

He says Black and Tovissi were working on the new caster site at Timken's Faircrest plant, which is located on Faircrest Street SW west of I-77 and south of U.S. 30.

TIMKEN COMPANY STATEMENT At approximately 12:45 p.m., a crane accident at a construction site at The Timken Company’s Faircrest Steel Plant, in Perry Township, Canton, OH, resulted in the fatalities of two Beaver Excavating workers.  On-site responders immediately contacted emergency and Perry Township police, who arrived at the scene shortly thereafter. OSHA officials also were notified. Construction operations were immediately suspended until further notice.  Out of respect for those involved, Timken also suspended its steel-making operations at the Faircrest plant.  Timken workers will return to their shifts in steel operations on Monday, May 6, beginning at 8:00 a.m.  No further information is immediately available. -----

(Earlier ANN coverage) Perry Township fire crews are responding to an industrial accident at the Timken Company's Faircrest steel plant this afternoon.

Perry Fire dispatchers tell AkronNewsNow that no further details are available, other than the fact that members of the department have gone to the scene.

The plant is located on Faircrest St. SW in Perry Township, west of I-77 and south of U.S. 30.

Stay with AkronNewsNow for updates on this developing news story.