Lincoln Ware

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The staff at a Chicago elementary school made a young male student leave the building on a cold March day, coatless and in short sleeves. They then lied about what happened, according to a lawsuit, that alleges a pattern of abuse and harassment by the staff and the boy’s classmates. The fourth-grader had been bullied […]

Cincy

Two parents are facing charges for a fight that happened outside of a middle school volleyball game, police say. Mason police say Gerald Gertz, Jr., 38, and Sarah Hatfield, 38, are both charged with felonious assault for the severe beating of Raymond Phipps, 43. Both Gertz and Hatfield appeared before a Warren County Judge Tuesday […]

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Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was found guilty of murder Tuesday in last year’s fatal shooting of her upstairs neighbor in his apartment. Guyger, who was fired after the shooting, said that she mistook Botham Jean’s apartment for her own after parking on the wrong floor at the complex on Sept. 6, 2018. The […]

Cincy

As the number of shootings grows in Cincinnati, community members have joined together in a call to stop the violence. They are doing so both on the streets and in a forum. If the sound of motorcycles didn’t catch people’s attention, the funeral-like procession probably did. “A life is a life, and you only have […]

Cincy

The Hamilton County Commission voted Thursday to spend $1.3 million in pursuit of a redevelopment deal for the blighted Millennium Hotel in downtown Cincinnati. Commissioner Denise Driehaus considers it an investment, she said after the 2-1 vote. If the Millennium were converted into a well-maintained and upscale hotel — one that’s not, as Mayor John […]

Cincy

Three children were removed from a Middletown home, and their mother and grandmother were arrested after police said they found the house in deplorable and “unliveable” conditions. Mid-September, a neighbor alerted police to the condition the children were living in and the fact that they were running around the neighborhood naked earlier in the day. […]

Cincy

An Ohio family will be paid a $900,000 settlement in the wrongful death case of a man who was shot by deputies 13 times. The Dayton Daily News reports Montgomery County authorized the payment to Dontae Martin’s family Tuesday. Martin crashed his car in July 2015. Two deputies who approached the car say they fired […]

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Two Muslim men are asking the Department of Transportation to investigate American Airlines and regional carrier Mesa Airlines after crew members on a Dallas-bound flight called the FBI on them. The offense? According to Issam Abdallah, one of the men accusing the airlines of discrimination, crew members became suspicious of him after he “went to […]

Relationships

New research based on data from the most recent US census is reporting that if a Black woman isn’t married by the time she’s 35, she’s unlikely to ever get married! Researchers Ivory A. Toldson of Howard University and Bryant Marks of Morehouse College conducted the study. The researchers claim further that of the black […]

Cincy

Leslie Edwards, a member of the history-making, segregation-defying Tuskegee Airmen, died Monday afternoon at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center. He was 95 years old. Edwards arrived in the Air Force as a World War II draftee, missing his wife and mourning his plan to start a family. He told WCPO in February, he and other black […]

Cincy

A 16-year-old male is fighting for his life after he was shot in Avondale early Tuesday, Cincinnati police said. Officers responded to the 3400 block of Hallwood Place for a report of a shooting and found the victim suffering from a life-threatening injury, police said. The victim was taken to University of Cincinnati Medical Center. […]

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They’re coming to Area 51. Not the aliens, but the alien enthusiasts. Almost 2 million people clicked the “going” button on a Facebook page set up by a California man seeking to storm Area 51, the super-secret military base in Nevada, to “see them aliens.” The date for this “raid” is Friday. The page’s creator disavowed the whole […]