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Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Ronald Suster Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough Cleveland Area Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman From the Metro Desk of the Determiner Weekly.com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network The Call and Post Newspaper on Wednesday endorsed Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Ron Suster over controversial Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough for a seat on the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals as to the upcoming May 4 Democratic primary. Other Democratic contenders include attorneys Lori Anne Dyke, Margaret Gardner, and Robert Shea, and Michael T. Fisher, an assistant attorney general. The winner will face Republican Brian Moriarty in the Nov. general election. Suster is also endorsed by the Norman Minor Bar Association, a venue of Black attorneys of the Cleveland Metropolitan area. "We are pleased that the Call and Post chose not to endorse Judge Keough following her undue criticism of it

Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Dick Ambrose Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the Determiner Weekly.com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Ohio Supreme Court Acting Chief Justice Paul Pfeifer has granted an affidavit of prejudice filed by the attorneys for suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell, allowing for the replacement in the case of Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold, who is Black, with Cuyahoga Judge Dick Ambrose, a moderate Republican and former Cleveland Browns football player. But some Blacks say Strickland Saffold's removal from the case may have been motivated by politics, racism, and undue influence of top officials of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest newspaper. In addition to a host of other charges, Sowell is now in custody on charges of rape, aggravated murder, and kidnapping, after the remains of 11 Black women were

U.S. Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-Oh.) Dr. Dorothy Height From the Metro Desk of the Determiner Weekly.com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Statement by representative fudge on the passing of Civil Rights matriarch Dr. Dorothy Height WASHINGTON, D.C. –Today, Representative Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH) issued the following statement on the passing of Dr. Dorothy Irene Height, Civil Rights advocate and humanitarian: Today Civil Rights icon and humanitarian Dr. Dorothy Height passed away. She was my friend, my mentor, and my predecessor as national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Dr. Height was passionate about justice and equality. Everything she did, every position she held, and every policy she advocated, served her life's mission—to eliminate barriers to success for women and blacks while inspiring the next generation to greatness. Even though Presidents and other world leaders sought her counsel, she always took the time to advise and encourage yo

Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court Earle B. Turner Cleveland NAACP President and Call and Post Newspaper General Counsel George Forbes Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman From the Metro Desk of the Determiner Weekly.com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough has illegally denied a motion by the attorney of African-American Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman to correct the online case docket to reflect the proper filing of documents in a criminal case before her involving the 16-year writer and outspoken community activist. Coleman called the denial by Keough another indication of her unfitness for the bench and her harassment of Blacks, women and the Black media. "This judge does not seem to know right from wrong anymore," said Coleman. "On May 22, 2009 a motion for an extension to secure a new attorney to file a post verdict acquittal motion and a motion f

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason Community Activist Art McKoy By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the Determiner Weekly.com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason on Monday filed a notice of appeal and a memorandum in support of jurisdiction that asks the Ohio Supreme Court to hear the decision by the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals that upheld the order of Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Nancy Margaret Russo for Mason to immediately give the lawyers for Community Activist Art McKoy the name of the alleged confidential informant in a pending drug case against him. Russo is the presiding judge in the case, which was brought last year after a Cuyahoga County Grand Jury indicted the outspoken community activist on a charge of allegedly permitting drugs to be sold out of his now defunct Superfly Barber Shop in East Cleveland, Oh., a fifth degree felony that carries up to a year in prison, though in most cases such all

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland Newly Appointed Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Eric Brown Deceased Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Moyer Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty From the Metro Desk of the Determiner Weekly.com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has appointed Franklin County Probate Judge Eric Brown, effective May 3, to replace Republican Ted Moyer, who died unexpectedly last week, as Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. A Democrat, Brown is currently running for the seat this year against Republican Ohio Supreme Court Justice Maureen O'Connor. Moyer, 70, could not seek reelection and was forced to retire at the end of this year because state law precludes judges from seeking office after 70. Moyer, however, often tried to circumvent that law by appointing retired judges as visiting municipal court judges throughout the

From the Metro Desk of the Determiner Weekly.com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network The Determiner Weekly.com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network announce endorsements for the May 4 Democratic primary (Uncontested races are not addressed as well as some others, with an emphasis on races that directly impact the Black community). Winners of the primary will advance to the Nov. general election and compete against winning Republicans also on the May 4 primary ballot. One Republican has been endorsed partly due to her committed membership in the grassroots group of the Imperial Women. Federal Offices: U.S. Senate- Lee Fisher U.S. Representative-10th District-Dennis Kucinich U.S. Representative-11th District-Marcia L. Fudge U.S. Representative-14th District-Dale Blanchard Judicial Offices: Judge of the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals-Term commencing 1/3/2011-Ronald Suster Judge of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas General D

Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty From the Metro Desk of the Determiner Weekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty is being accused of harassing African-American Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman in retaliation for her having won an appeal last year in the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals where the appellate court reinstated his prior dismissal of a lawsuit filed by the journalist and community activist. The suit at issues pertains now to claims of intentional infliction of emotional distress and malicious prosecution brought by Coleman against a Beachwood, Oh. woman after a Shaker Hts. Municipal Court jury, in 2005, found her not guilty of a misdemeanor charge of alleged telecommunications harassment brought by the City of Beachwood. According to Coleman, the woman invited her to call for documents she was holding and then got with Beachwood officials to falsely claim s

Ohio Democratic Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the Determiner Weekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Ohio Democratic Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher on Monday opened a campaign office at Shaker Square in Cleveland., Oh. for his Senate bid to replace former Cleveland Mayor and retiring U.S. Senator George Voinovich, a Republican. The event drew a host of area movers and shakers, college students hoping to help catapult the Shaker Hts. high school graduate and licensed attorney to Wash. D.C., political wannabes, and office holders like Cleveland City Councilmen Jeffrey Johnson, Kevin Conwell and Matt Zone, Fisher's brother-in- law. "We opened this office because I am home grown," said Fisher, a native of Ann Harbor Michigan who grew up in the Cleveland area with his parents and three siblings. "Campaigns are still won on the ground with grassroots people like you." After initiating his speech with the typical campaign gi

Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Moyer Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the Determiner Weekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network The death on Friday of Ohio Republican Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Moyer,70, who was not seeking reelection following a term ending this year because of the mandatory retirement age of 70, paves the way for Ohio Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland to appoint a Democrat to the now all Republican Supreme Court of Ohio to complete Moyer's unfinished term. It also would give that replacement judge the authority to decide whether an affidavit of prejudice, if filed against Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold as promised by Attorney Rufus Sims, who represents suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell in a capital murder case involving the murders of 11 Black women in Cleveland, Oh., should be either granted or denied. If granted