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Obama delivers fifth State of the Union, compliments U.S. House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, Ohio State Representative John Barnes Jr. tells Cleveland Urban News.Com that speech was key to 'the poor, women's rights, Civil Rights,' Ohio State Senator Shirley Smith applauds Obama's courage on controversial issues

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United States President Barack Obama By  Kathy Wray Coleman,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. (Kathy Wray Coleman is a 20-year investigative journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press)   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) WASHINGTON, D.C.- President Barack Obama delivered his fifth State of the Union address Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress and drew no less than 13 standing ovations, the longest State of the Union speech of his presidency, other than the one he delivered in congressional chambers in 2010. America's first Black president, a year into his second four-year term, lobbied for the poor, women, children, military personnel, and the middle class, in addition to promoting domestic oil and national gas production, a hike in min
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Amanda Knox's murder conviction upheld on appeal, article by Associated Press

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185 26 27 This image released by NBC shows Amanda Knox during an interview on the "Today" show, Friday, Sept. 20, 2013 in New York. Knox defended her decision not to return to Italy for a new appeals trial over the 2007 killing of her British roommate, even as she acknowledged that "everything is at stake," insisting she is innocent. In March, Italy's supreme court ordered a new trial for Knox and her former Italian boyfriend. An appeals court in 2011 had acquitted both, overturning convictions by a lower court. Italian law cannot compel Knox to return for the new legal proceeding. (AP Photo/NBC, Peter Kramer) FLORENCE, Italy (AP) - An appeals court in Florence on Thursday upheld the guilty verdict against U.S. student Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend for the 2007 murder of her British roommate. Knox was sentenced to 28 1/2 years in prison, raising the specter of a long legal battle over
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Cuyahoga County Council to vote today on whether to put sin tax renewal measure on May ballot inspite of wind chill warning, below zero temperatures, and though public schools, county courts and offices are closed, and most of the city of Cleveland is nearly shut down, sin tax funds sports stadiums upkeep with a tax on alcohol, cigarettes, community activists suspect about why meeting has not been canceled, say county council does not want community input, Black community disproportionately impacted by the sin tax

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By  Kathy Wray Coleman,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. (Kathy Wray Coleman is a 20-year investigative journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press)   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-In spite of a wind chill warning in effect across Northeast Ohio  until noon Wednesday ,  and the closings of public schools, businesses, and county offices and courts  ,  Cuyahoga County Council will go forward with scheduled meetings today at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center in downtown Cleveland, including its 5 pm regular meeting to vote on whether to put the 20-year extension of the sin tax on alcohol and cigarettes that would fund city sports stadiums upkeep on the May ballot. The regular meeting will follow scheduled meetings earlier in the day, co
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Updated: Mayor Jackson suspends Cleveland red light traffic camera program that issued fines based upon snapshots of speeding motorists after appeals court deems the program unconstitutional and illegal, East Cleveland traffic cameras affected by ruling, Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to hear the issue pursuant to an appeals court ruling that deemed traffic cameras in Toledo, Ohio unconstitutional, bill to ban traffic cameras under state law passed the Ohio House of Representatives and is pending in the Ohio Senate

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By  Kathy Wray Coleman Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Kathy Wray Coleman is a 20-year investigative journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press)   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson CLEVELAND, Ohio-A three-judge panel of the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals unanimously ruled on Thursday that Cleveland's red light traffic ticket cameras that take snapshots of speeding motorists for subsequent fines are unconstitutional and illegal because Ohio's municipal courts have sole authority or jurisdiction over violations of codified city ordinances under the the Ohio Constitution. In that same case that same judicial panel also ruled 2 to 1 that appellant Sam Jodka, the trial court defendant who prosecuted th
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Cleveland NAACP takes testimony from community activists, victims, victims family members on foreclosures, support of the Restore Our Neighborhoods Act of 2013 to tear down unsalvageable abandoned homes that draw crime and where women are raped and murdered, Congresswoman Fudge's representative attends, Fudge and Congresspersons Kaptur, Joyce introduced the not-yet-passed bill to tear down unsalvageable abandoned homes across the country, activists testified that Ariel Castro's victims were held captive for 10 years because of his half boarded up home, they testified that greater Cleveland Black women are found raped, murdered in or near abandoned homes

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By Kathy Wray Coleman,  Editor-in-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press with  print  newspapers  in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio CLEVELAND, Ohio- Community activists and victims and their family members gave testimony yesterday evening for the housing committee of the Cleveland Branch NAACP seeking state and federal legislation on foreclosure and mortgage impropriety and in support of the Restore Our Neighborhoods Act of 2013, a pending  bill to tear down abandoned homes across the country  that cannot be salvaged that was introduced last year by Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-11), Congresswoman M
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