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Kentucky Wildcats advance to Final Four as do the Michigan State Spartans, the Wisconsin Badgers, and the Duke Blue Devils, Louisville fell to Michigan in Elite Eight tournament.....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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The Kentucky Wildcats edged the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Saturday, March 28 at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio to advance to the Final Four for the fourth time in five seasons.  From the metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog. Con, Ohio's leaders in Black digital news. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) The   Kentucky Wildcats stayed undefeated Saturday, edging third-seeded Notre Dame 68-66 in the Midwest region final at the  Quicken  Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio  to advance to the final four four the fourth time in five seasons.   And  the Michigan State Spartans capped an improbable run to the Final Four with an overtime win Sunday against the  Louisville  Cardinals in the Elite Eight tournament.  Kentucky will face the Wisconsin Badgers on Saturday, April 4, and Michigan will square off, also on Saturday, again

The Cleveland Clergy Alliance, community activists, judges to rally at noon on steps of Cleveland City Hall on March 28, 2015 as to police killings, legal system injustices, community input on DOJ report consent decree.....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news...www.clevelandurbannews.com

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Tel: (216) 659-0473, Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com  The Rev. Lorenzo Norris CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Cleveland Clergy Alliance, a, organization of 25 different greater Cleveland area religious groups led by the Rev. Lorenzo Norris, a community activist and senior pastor at Concord Baptist Church in Cleveland, will host a rally at the Free Stamp and on the steps of Cleveland City Hall in downtown Cleveland at 601 Lakeside Avenue at noon on Saturday, March 28. Organizers told Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper, that they are expecting hundreds a large crowd. The theme of the faith-based initiative, that also includes community activists, is "life, liberty, empowerment, educa

CNN reports on decision of Italy Supreme Court on appeal of murder conviction of Amanda Knox, Knox comments

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Amanda Knox Rome (CNN)- A tearful Amanda Knox said she is glad to have her life back after an eight-year legal drama that gripped the United States, Britain and Italy. Knox made a brief statement after Italy's Supreme Court overturned her murder conviction late Friday. She was prosecuted after the semi-naked body of British student Meredith Kercher, 21, her throat slashed, was found in November 2007 in the apartment the two women shared. Raffaele Sollecito, Knox's Italian boyfriend, was convicted as well. He was cleared along with Knox on Friday night. "She was my friend ... she deserved so much better," Knox said of Kercher. The Knox-Sollecito retrial Knox had been facing 28½ years in prison. Now she can seek a normal life. She was in the United States when the decision was announced in Rome and issued a statement, saying she was "relieved and grateful." CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE STORY AT CNN.COM

East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton to push for a merger of his city with Cleveland as a group of residents simultaneously seek his recall....Mayor to hold 6:30 pm public meeting on April 2 at the McGregor Nursing Home, 14900 Private Drive in East Cleveland.... By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Tel: (216) 659-0473, Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com  EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO - East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton has decided to push for a merger of his largely Black impoverished suburb with neighboring Cleveland, also a majority Black city that struggles financially, but is not, like East Cleveland, purportedly on the verge of possible  bankruptcy .    (Editor's note: Mayor Norton will hold a  6:30 pm public meeting to seek community support for his merger plans on Thursday, April 2 at the McGregor Nursing Home, 14900 Private Drive in East Cleveland) Cleveland has a population of roughly 375,000 residents, and is  about  58 percent Black.  East Cleveland has a  population  of so

Community, community activists women to host the 2nd Anniversary of the Cleveland East 93rd Street Murders Rally and Vigil on Thursday, March 26 at 4:45 pm, at the intersection of East 93rd Street and Bessemer Avenue in Cleveland. The serial killer of the women is still at large..... Daughter and twin sister of the victims, community activists, elected officials to speak..By Cleveland Urban News. Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Murder victims Jazmine Trotter, Christine Malone and Ashley Leszyeski. Their assailant is still at large, Cleveland police said. From the Metro Desk of  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Community activists and victims family members will host the Second Anniversary of the East 93rd Street Cleveland Rape and Murders and Stop Violence Against Women Rally and Vigil at 4:45 pm on Thursday, March 26, 2015 at the intersection of East 93rd Street and Bessemer Avenue on Cleveland's east side. (From downtown Cleveland at 55th Street take Kinsman Avenue to East 93rd Street, make a right and go about a mile  and a half to Bessemer Avenue). For more information contact the Imperial Women Coalition  at 216-659-0473. Jazmine Trotter, 20, and Christine Malone, 43, both Black and both

President Obama speaks to City Club in Cleveland, Mayor Jackson, City Council President Kevin Kelley, Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper, Nina Turner, Louis Stokes, others there comment on the speech to Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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President Barack Obama, America's first Black president, speaks to the City Club at the Convention Center in downtown Cleveland, Ohio on Wednesday, March 18, 2015. A question and answer session was also part of the forum. By Gwendolyn Pitts and Kathy Wray Coleman, Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's leaders in Black digital news, Tel: (216) 659-0473, Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio -President Barack Obama spoke to an intimate group of some 500 members of the City Club of Cleveland and their guests and about a half dozen elected officials at the Convention Center in downtown Cleveland, Ohio on Wednesday afternoon. The turnout was the Democratic who's who of greater Cleveland. Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper, was among a host of media outlets there to cover the event, one in which the

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Tickets for Obama speech in Cleveland, Ohio on March 18, 2015 are all gone, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson to attend, event is sponsored by the City Club, Obama's 3 pm speech to be streamlined on Internet...By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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United States President Barack Obama 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  K a thy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 22 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson CLEVELAND, Ohio -Free tickets for the event sponsored by the City Club  at the Convention Center in downtown Cleveland, Ohio on tomorrow March 18 at 3 pm  of the speech by President Barack Obama on the importance of middle class economics are all gone. Whether Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson will also give remarks is up in the air, though he will attend, said his spokesperson Dan Williams. "I don't know that he [Mayor Jackson] has anything prepared, but he will be there," said Williams.

President Obama to speak in Cleveland, Ohio on March 18, 2015 at the Convention Center in downtown Cleveland, the City Club is the host of the event, By Cleveland Urban News .Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news, www.clevelandurbannews.com

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United States President Barack Obama 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  K a thy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 22 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio -President Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, and America's first Black president, will deliver an address on the importance of middle class economics at the Convention Center in downtown Cleveland, Ohio on Wednesday, March 18.  The event will be streamlined at  www.whitehouse.gov/live .  , and is  being hosted by the City Club. It is limited to City Club members, their guests, a few dignitaries, and the media.  The president last visited Cleveland in 2013 when he toured the Arcelor Mittal steel

Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Ohio's leader in Black digital news Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief. Coleman is  a community activist and 22- year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio

Updated: Suspected gunman arrested: Two White police officers shot during Ferguson protest, racial tensions over DOJ report and no federal or state criminal charges against White officer that shot and killed unarmed Black teen Michael Brown continue to mount, President Obama comments, and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder calls the suspected gunman "a damn punk"

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Police officers in Ferguson, Missouri during a protest held early Thursday morning that saw two officers shot. (Photo compliments of Getty Images). Slain Ferguson, Missouri teen Michael Brown 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  K a thy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 22 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson St Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCullouch FERGUSON, Missouri - Two White police officers were shot Thursday morning while policing a protest in Ferguson, Missouri outside of the police station, both of them released hours later from an area hospital with non-threatening injuries. A 41-year-old officer was shot in the