“I don’t feel too safe walking by the woods,” said Allen Edwards, a 19-year-old Black student from Canton. “There’s woods everywhere. And somebody could be out in them, and I don’t know.” In the town of Nelsonville, Ohio within the confines of Hocking College, Black students have been on high alert since warnings of death […]
It looks like they wasted no time at all in getting this underway as Bow Wow and Nelly went head to head in their celebrity basketball game in Ohio recently. With special appearances from the likes of Cincinnati Bengals’ Chad Ochocino, along with support from the St. Lunatics Murphy Lee, the stage was set between […]
A 36-year-old man is sitting in jail after committing a crime that can only be described as reprehensible! Steve McClairin was charged with a myriad of criminal charges including two counts of endangering children, kidnapping, felonious assault, and domestic violence after local authorities were told that he forcefully placed his daughter into a clothes dryer. […]
A teacher currently in a battle to keep his job might have shot himself in the foot, figuratively speaking. John Freshwater, formerly a teacher at Mount Vernon Middle School in Columbus, Ohio, was fired after an internal investigation concluded that he burned crucifixes into several of his students with a high-frequency generator while preaching Christianity […]
A cartoon depicting State Senator Nina Turner of Ohio in an Jemima-esque light has gotten Cleveland’s black newspaper the Call & Post in hot water. The move comes after Turner became the only Black elected official to support the controversial county government reform, to be accomplished via “Issue 6.” Many of the senators supporters claim […]
Cleveland serial killer, Anthony Sowell, is scheduled to appear in court today to face charges connected to the rape and strangulation of a 32-year-old woman that took place on September 22nd in Cuyahoga County. The military vet and mass murderer is expected to be arraigned on numerous charges, including multiple counts of kidnapping, rape, and […]
An Ohio man is in police custody after six decomposing bodies were found at his home. Anthony Sowell served 15 years in jail for a rape conviction and has since been regularly reporting to a sheriff’s office. He was arrested after detectives with a search warrant found two bodies on the third floor of his […]
President Obama took his high hopes of economic recovery to a General Motors plant in Ohio where jobloss is at it’s greatest. “In the midst of a deep recession and financial crisis, the collapse of the auto industry would have caused enormous damage to our economy,” Obama told an enthusiastic crowd of autoworkers. “So we […]
LeBron James, a star athlete of NBA, hosted a children’s bike-a-thon in his hometown of Akron, Ohio. Although most of the money raised will go to charities, James believes the kids’ participation and having fun is just as essential. “When I can see the kids have a smile on their face it means more to […]
