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A father faces a murder charge after authorities found his 4-month-old baby dead near the Little Miami River Monday. Charles Crawford, 25, told Loveland police an unknown person abducted Kaylynn Crawford from the backseat of his car outside the Dollar General on Loveland-Madeira Road Sunday night, according to an incident report. By Monday afternoon, search crews […]

National

While the average life expectancy for white America is somewhere in the mid-70’s, a new report gathered by Huffington Post shows that only half of young black people expect to live past age 35. Wow, only 35. Thirty-five is when most people have their first or second child. Thirty-five is when most people become financially […]

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While is front of a crowd during a meeting on stopping violence in Cleveland, Council Zack Reed reads from a text he received this morning from the Cleveland police. “East 93rd Street and Miles, 23-year-old male gunshot victim to the abdomen. Right now, just happened at 10:16.” Councilman Reed says Cleveland’s neighborhoods are in crisis. There have been […]

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Cleveland neighborhoods are dealing with a rise in felonious assaults involving a gun. At this time in 2014, there had only been 183 felonious assaults with a firearm. In 2015 by this time, the number had risen to 210. This year felonious assaults with a have outpaced both previous years. Cleveland police have logged 425 […]

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Jeff Asher, a crime analyst and contributor to FiveThirtyEight.com, joined Roland Martin on Wednesday's edition of NewsOne Now to discuss Chicago's spike in crime.

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A senior living center here was shaken up by a shooting that left two housekeepers dead Thursday. Residents at Hamlet Village say their place is normally very quiet and peaceful. But on Thursday morning, residents in one building found a man lying in the entranceway. “Someone’s been shot, a black man with the purple jacket […]

National

*Seven years after being found guilty for the murders Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew … William Balfour is speaking out. He claims he’s innocent of the killings and that his conviction was the result of a grand police-concocted “conspiracy.” “I didn’t have nothing to do with her family being killed. Period,” Hudson’s former […]

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Homicides were a big topic of discussion at Cleveland City Council, Monday. Officials say Cleveland has seen 10 homicides in the first 25 days of January. Last year at the same time, there were only three. In 2014, eight people had died by homicide in the first 25 days. Councilman Zack Reed presented a plan […]

National

The teenager’s mother clapped her hands and screamed with joy as she watched an Oklahoma City jury convict a former police officer of raping her daughter and sexually assaulting seven other women. Minutes after 29-year-old Daniel Holtzclaw was found guilty, the mother of his youngest accuser said she hoped the case would show that the […]

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  The city of Cleveland issued its first self-evaluation of progress in complying with a consent decree to reform the Cleveland Police Department. The 16-page required assignment was delivered to Judge Solomon Oliver, who is overseeing the effort to make sure changes really happen. Afterward, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson held a long, informal briefing with reporters to […]

National

(VALERIE MACON / AFP/Getty Images) tress and Baltimore native Jada Pinkett Smith donated $10,000 to the Baltimore state’s attorney’s office’s fund for victims and witnesses of crime. The office held its inaugural Winter Solstice on Thursday to benefit the Victims Emergency Fund. More than 250 people attended the event, which raised a net $17,639 for the […]

National

The holiday season is always a special time of year. It is also a time when busy people become careless and vulnerable to theft and other holiday crime. We can never be too careful, too prepared or too aware. Please share this information with family, friends and neighbors. Driving Avoid driving alone or at night. […]