Good morning. It’s Wednesday, May 1st. I’m Crystal Orren and here’s your local news from the Akron Beacon-Journal and Ohio.com. Today’s weather will be cloudy, with some thunderstorms around 8 p.m. The high will be 81 degrees and the low will be 63. Our top story is: An Akron man weighed the odds against him for 2 days, before deciding to plead guilty yesterday in the 2017 shooting death of an 18-year-old Akron man.