via Fox8cleveland: ESPN NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski is reporting that Cleveland Cavs Head Coach John Beilein is leaving the team. Beilein, who was head coach in May, is expected to say goodbye to staff and players on Wednesday as the team returns from the All-Star Break. Associate head coach J.B. Bickerstaff will take over as […]
via BlackAmericaWeb: CBS News anchor Gayle King says the network should release its report on sexual misconduct allegations against former chief executive Leslie Moonves, who was ousted on Sunday. King, speaking Tuesday on “CBS This Morning,” said that “I don’t know how we move forward if we at CBS don’t have full transparency.” A law firm is investigating […]
Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board are in Akron to begin investigating Tuesday’s deadly plane crash. All nine people on board the 1979 Hawker HS 125 700A twin-engine business jet were killed, when the plane crashed into a four-family apartment complex at 2:53 p.m. Bella Dinh-Zarr, Vice-Chairman of NTSB indicated that surveillance video shows the plane flying at a low altitude and banking to the left. She […]
John Carroll University has been ranked #7 among master’s degree-granting universities in the Midwest, according to U.S. News & World Report‘ s 2016 “Best Colleges” guide. This is the 27th consecutive year for top ten honors for John Carroll. The school was also ranked #3 for its “Strong Commitment To Undergraduate Teaching,” and #7 among […]
Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that the Department of Justice found a pattern of unreasonable use of force by the Cleveland police. The investigation found Cleveland police “engage in poor and dangerous tactics,” including shootings and also excessive use of less lethal force, including Tasers. Cleveland police excessive force is the result of […]
The fatal police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice involves critical problems in the Cleveland Police Department that the Justice Department’s been studying since early last year. That report on the use of deadly force, and whether CPD’s largely white department violates civil rights of the largely black city that it serves, is expected to […]
Here’s some good news you probably won’t read a lot about: Black and Latino students have cut their dropout rates by more than half over…
Under the Clery Act, colleges have to file a campus crime report each October 1. We looked at five area colleges and, in particular, sexual assaults on campus. According to the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center, nationally, nearly 1-in-4 women will be sexually assaulted during their college years. Stemming this epidemic has become a national focus. […]
We have been digging through hundreds of inspection reports on local schools and have found violations ranging from dirty conditions to unsafe food to even an alligator in a school. We have looked at inspection reports on public, private and parochial schools over the past four months. We’ve seen everything from unsanitary conditions, mold […]
Provisional numbers released Monday by the Ohio State Highway Patrol show there were 13 people killed on Ohio’s roadways this Thanksgiving Holiday, two below the four-year average. During the reporting period, which began Wednesday, Nov. 27 at midnight and ran through Sunday, Dec. 1 at 11:59 p.m., 13 people were killed in 11 […]
8:25am CLEAR: Crash in Parma Heights, Pearl Rd at York Rd #cletraffic #early5 8:20am 480 EB before 77, debris on road. Heavy traffic from Jennings 90 EB crawling from Warren Rd. 8:12am Crash on 90 EB now in right shoulder, delays stretch back to Warren Rd. 8:00am 77 NB crash in left lane before Rockside. Very […]
The Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General in Washington D.C. issued a scathing report on the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center at Wade Park. The report is more than 100 pages and breaks down why the office feels the Wade Park project was not in the best interest of the people it serves. The report […]
