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Uppercut RTA bus driver victim Shidea Lane to make plea tomorrow in Shaker Hts Municipal Court on disorderly conduct charge, fired RTA bus driver Artis Hughes, who sucker punched the young Black woman and threw her from an RTA bus last year, was found guilty of assaulting Lane, Imperial Women representative to attend hearing, Imperial Women object to outrageous violence against women and call for not guilty finding or probation without criminal record for Lane, 25

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Shidea N. Lane  Artis Hughes By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 CLEVELAND, Ohio- Shidea N. Lane, the young Black woman who made national news last year for getting uppercut, choked, and thrown from a Regional Transit Authority (RTA) bus by since fired bus driver Artis Hughes, will plead no contest tomorrow to misdemeanor disorderly conduct before Shaker Hts Municipal Court Judge K. J Montgomery, her lawyer Attorney Dale Friedland told Cleveland Urban News.Com Monday afternoon.  "Shidea will plead no contest and we hope the judge will find her not guilty," said Friedland, who added that Montgomery and Beachwood Prosecutor Thomas Greve had rejected his request for probation before judgment without a cri

PRESS RELEASE: Shidea Lane, the young Black woman sucker punched and tossed off of a Cleveland RTA bus by since fired bus driver Artis Hughes, to appear at press conference by Imperial Women on outrageous violence against women, Sunday, 5 pm, WERE 1490 AM Radio parking lot, 2510 St. Clair Ave in Cleveland, Lane, her attorney to appear on Art McKoy University Show on WERE at 5:30 pm after press conference, Nov 25 is National End Violence Against Women Day

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Shidea N. Lane, a passenger on a Regional Transit Authority bus in greater Cleveland that RTA bus driver Artis Hughes, who was has since been fired, sucker punched to the floor and tossed off the bus on Sept. 18 after an argument between the two ensued.  Former RTA bus driver Artis Hughes, who sucker punched and chokes a young Black RTA passenger Shidea Lane, 25, and tossed her off the bus he was driving. Hughes, 59, was fired from his job last week for violating RTA rules, regulations and policies relative to his attack on Lane. By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Imperial Women and other womens' rights groups will hold a press conference on Sunday, Nov. 18 at 5 pm with Shidea N. Lane, the young Black woman subjected to an uppercut, choked, and thrown from a Regional Transit Authority (RTA) bus b

Blacks at Cleveland Ward 8 debate watch party hosted by Councilman Johnson, Johnson, other Black elected officials say Obama won first presidential debate over Romney, political strategist Arnold Pinkey predicted anti-Obama debate polls at RTA union rally with Rep. Fudge, Michelle Obama's brother at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio 2 days before the debate, Amalgmated Transit Union National President Larry Hanley, who is RTA's national union president, spoke at union rally

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United States President Barack Obama (left), the Democratic Nominee for President, and Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Jeff Johnson, whose ward club sponsored a watch party for the first presidential debate of the 2012 election. Johnson is one of nine Black council persons out of 19 that represent the majority Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland First Lady Michelle Obama and her brother Craig Robinson , the head men's basketball coach at Oregon State University . Robinson spoke at a get out the vote rally with U.S. Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-11), other Black Cleveland area elected officials, Black clergy, community activists and local and national union leaders of the Regional Transit Authority's Amalgamated Transit Union at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland, Oh. on Oct 2, the first day of early voting in Ohio, a pivotal state By Johnette Jernigan and Kathy Wray Coleman, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleve