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  17-year-old Hershawna Rias Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com    Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.  CLEVELAND, Ohio-   A Columbus man has been charged with aggravated murder in the April 8 shooting death of 17-year-old Hershawna Rias of Cleveland, and more charges are expected  in the case. Esperanza Lugo, 18, remains jailed on $100,000 bond. He appeared for his felony arraignment in Cleveland Municipal Court on Tuesday morning  and his appointed attorney has requested a preliminary hearing on his behalf. The Black girl's  dead body was discovered at Martin Luther King Park on Cleveland's largely Black east side with multiple gun shot wounds to her head, police said. Rias was  found by park personnel lying dead in the grass about 11:40 a.m. on April 8, according to the Cuyahoga County medical examiner’s office.   T he park is at East 107th Street at Elk Avenue in Ward 10 in the...

Cleveland Ward 4 Councilman Kenneth Johnson By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio – A leg of the Ohio Supreme Court has suspended longtime Cleveland Ward 4 Councilman Kenneth Johnson from his 87,000-a-year city council job in connection with a 15-count federal indictment   on theft and conspiracy charges, a suspension that some Johnson supporters say is racist and politically motivated.  A three-judge panel of retired judges with nothing to lose who were handpicked by Republican Chief Ohio Supreme Court Justice Maureen O'Connor after Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, also a powerful Republican like O'Connor, recommended the suspension, issued the suspension determination on Monday, which is rare but allowed under state law to protect the financial assets of the governing authority at issue when a person is charged with theft and other associated c...

Convicted Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin (right), and his murder victim, George Floyd Protesters in Cleveland who rallied for justice for George Floyd on May 30 torched  police cars as violence erupted in the largely Black major American city " Thousands gather at the Free Stamp next to Cleveland City Hall in downtown Cleveland on Sat., May 30 for a rally for  justice for Minneapolis police murder victim George Floyd, a rally that turned violent and erupted into riots. Photo by Tristan Rader Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief George Floyd CLEVELAND, Ohio- After a three-week trial, a duly impaneled jury of his peers on Tuesday found fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all charges in the murder of civilian George Floyd , Chauvin convicted of second degree intentional murder, third degree murder and second degree manslaughter. Chauvin erroneously k...

Keynote speaker Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley (third from left in front row), poses with  some of the other   speakers of the fifth annual International Women's festivities in Cleveland on March 8, 2021 at Market Square in Ohio City were honored with flowers from Mattie Hayes floral shop. Front row from left: Ohio House Minority Leader Rep. Emilia Sykes, who was also a keynote speaker, state Rep. Juanita Brent of Cleveland,  Cleveland activist and organizer Kathy Wray Coleman, who was the head organizer of the event and has organized each annual event since 2017, the Rev. Pamela Pinkney-Butts, and Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Chairperson and Councilwoman Shontel Brown Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley  (fourth from left holding banner and wearing blue face mask) , marches in Cleveland on International Women's Day March Cleveland on March 8, 2021. Also pictured are  County Democratic Party Chairwomen and Counctycouncilwoman Shontel Brown  (third from left) , ...

  Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, associate publisher. By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, associate publisher. CLEVELAND, Ohio -Congressional candidate Nina Turner, a former Cleveland councilwoman and prior Ohio senator who later served as co-chair of Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign for president and is a front runner in the  11th congressional district race in Ohio to replace former congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, held  a discussion on Thursday evening featuring local and national labor leaders, most of them from Northeast Ohio, and more specifically Cleveland. Fudge is and now the U.S. Housing and Urban Development secretary in the cabinet of President Joe Biden. Ohio's 11th congressional district is largely Black and  includes most of Cleveland, a largely Black pocket of Akron, and select suburbs of Cuyahoga and Summit counties. held  a discussion on Thursday evening featuring local an...