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COLUMBUS, Ohio –  Ohio  Senate Minority Leader Nickie J. Antonio (D-Lakewood)  and  Sen. Steve Huffman (R-Tipp City)  released the following statements in support of the press conference held on Sept. 6 by state Reps. Adam Miller (D-Columbus) and Jean Schmidt (R-Loveland), in which they announced their legislation to abolish the death penalty in Ohio The proposed legislation is similar to death penalty legislation dubbed Senate Bill 101  that Antonio and state sen Steve Huffman introduced in March of this year. Research shows that Black people have been over- represented on death row in the United States since its inception and that the death penalty does not necessarily deter heinous crimes.  "I commend both Representatives Miller and Schmidt for their leadership in the Ohio House and joining the bipartisan effort to end the death penalty in Ohio," said  Antonio . "By continuing to allow capital punishment in Ohio, we are permitting an unjust, ex...

Former Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Pinkey Carr   By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in chief.....Investigative article below CLEVELAND, Ohio —Former Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Pinkey Carr, whom the Ohio Supreme Court disbarred and removed from the 13-member bench last year, has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of falsification and was handed four months probation by a visiting judge in the case. Via a plea deal, Carr pleaded no contest to three counts of falsification on Wednesday, each a first-degree misdemeanor, and was subsequently found guilty by the visiting judge. She was sentenced to four months of probation and is required to pay court costs. “When the judge acts like a jester, justice goes awry,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said in a statement. “Today’s criminal sentencing enforces that no one is above the law.” Yost is a Republican and Carr, who is Black, a Democrat. Yost's office prosecuted the case against...

Ohio 11th Congressional District Congresswoman  Shontel M. Brown, a Warrensville Heights Democrat Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief CLEVELAND, OHIO – Ohio   Congresswoman Shontel M. Brown, a Warrensville Heights Democrat who leads Ohio's largely Black 11th congressional district, which includes Cleveland and several of its eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County, will serve as grand marshal for the annual 11th Congressional District Community Caucus Labor Day Parade & Festival on Mon., Sept 4, 2023.  The parade will kick off at 11am from A.J. Rickoff school at East 147th Street and Kinsman Road on Cleveland's majority Black east side, organizers said. Last year's event drew thousands, organizers said. This year's theme is "Empowering the People." The parade will proceed down Kinsman Road to Luke Easter Park for fe...

Ohio  Senate Minority Leader Nickie J. Antonio (D-Lakewood) COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio  Senate Minority Leader Nickie J. Antonio (D-Lakewood), a Lakewood Democrat whose 23rd state legislative district includes 14 of Cleveland' 17 wards ,   responded to a Spectrum News  report  that Ohio prosecutors are seeking to resume executions using nitrogen hypoxia. The state senator previously introduced   Senate Bill 101  , which  would abolish the death penalty in Ohio and leave the ultimate possible punishment  life  without the possibility of parole for capital crimes. Her measure has bipartisan support with the  joint sponsor  Senator Steve Huffman (R-Tipp City),   and some one-third of the Ohio Senate coming on board as co=sponsors including  Senators Blessing (R-Cincinnati), Craig (D-Columbus), DeMora (D-Columbus), Hicks-Hudson (D-Toledo), Ingram (D-Cincinnati), Lang (R-West Chester), Reynolds (R-Canal Winchest...

Donald Trump mugshot CLEVELAND, Ohio -  Former president Donald Trump  surrendered in Atlanta, Georgia Thursday evening relative to 13 charges issued  Aug 14 against him and 18 affiliates by a grand jury in Fulton County District Attorney Fanie Willis' investigation into 2020 election interference. The president then headed to the airport to board a plane to fly back to New jersey At court he was required to take a mugshot and was booked, finger- printed and then released. His high-priced attorneys had previously arranged a $200,000 bond in an unprecedented criminal case that Trump has called "a travesty of justice." He is the first former president to face a mugshot and criminal charges. He branded this latest indictment, a widespread 14-count indictment, another witch hunt to try to derail his candidacy for president as campaign donations continue to pile up after  each indictment. T his latest indictment marks the fourth time the former president ha...