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Whitney Houston By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog. Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com News.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) BEVERLY HILLS, California-Whitney Houston mixed a deadly combination of the antidepressant Xanax and alcohol hours before her body was discovered in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Sat afternoon, investigators say., and the media are having a field day with that data, elevating the pop superstar to an even higher celebrity status than she enjoyed in the years before the aftermath of her untimely death. "This is too common a story now in America, the epidemic of prescription drugs," U.S. Rep. Connie Mack (R-FL) said on a CNN talk show Wed. evening. "There is money all the way down the supply chains from the manufacturer to the doctors." Houston's body was flown to her hometown from the California Hilton where she was staying for what would have been he

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog. Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com News.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio-Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said through a spokesperson yesterday that Black state legislators representing Cleveland and Cleveland City Council members that have said he crafted his controversial Cleveland schools educational plan unleashed last week that calls for a teacher merit pay system and more charter schools without their knowledge are being disingenuous, at best. "He would never release something like this without speaking to the appropriate people," said Andrea Taylor, Jackson's press secretary. "They were aware of the proposal before it was made public." And Taylor said that nothing in the plan suggest that teacher tenure will be touched or that seniority would be eliminated, a posture that Cleveland Teachers Unio

Whitney Houston in recent times Houston, a music icon who died suddenly Sat. afternoon, in earlier years with her ex husband Bobby Brown, whom she married in 1992 and later divorced in 2007. Brown, who rose to moderate and short term fame as member of the R and B group New Edition and subsequent solo artist, had a rocky and sometimes abusive relationship with Houston. Choking back tears, he told an audience at a New Edition concert in Southhaven, MS. Sat. night, "I love you Whitney." By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog. Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com News.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) (EDITOR'S NOTE: CAN A MAN THAT BEATS YOU, LOVE YOU? READ THIS STORY) BEVERLY HILLS, California -Famed pop singer Whitney Houston, the close cousin of music icon Dionne Warwick and ex wife of bad boy New Edition singer Bobby Brown, is dead at 48. Houston was reportedly found by her brother in the bath tub

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Ohio Republican Governor John Kasich Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Jeff Johnson Ohio State Rep. John Barnes Jr. (D-Cleveland) By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said during an interview on Thurs. that while the Obama administration has waived some No Child Left Behind Act standards to 10 states for developing educational initiatives that include additional resources for at risk children and provisions to enhance educational outcomes for African-American students, teacher merit pay plans like the one proposed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson in an effort to dismantle teacher tenure are not something required for Ohio and other states to qual

Cuyahoga County prosecutor candidate Subodh Chandra , a former federal prosecutor and prior Cleveland law director. U.S. Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH) From the Metro Desk of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog. Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio– Adding to a growing list of endorsements such as East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton, Ohio State Sen Nina Turner (D-25), Cleveland Councilpersons Mamie Mitchell and Terrell Pruitt, The Carl Stokes Brigade, The Imperial Women, and Cuyahoga County Councilmen Julian Rogers (D-10), Pernell Jones (D-8), and Dale Miller (D-2) , U.S. Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH) announced today her support of Subodh Chandra for Cuyahoga County prosecutor. “Subodh Chandra is the clear choice for county prosecutor,” Fudge said in a press release. “He is honest and committed, and he has the experience and integrity to ensure real reform and change in our justice system.” Chandra

Cuyahoga County prosecutor candidate Stephanie Hall and her son. A single mother, police officer, former assistant county prosecutor and prior foreclosure magistrate, Hall, the only Black and woman in the race, beat out the four men opposing her for the job in a straw poll at a debate yesterday at the East Cleveland Library. Tim McGinty, a candidate for Cuyahoga County prosecutor and former Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas judge, got an embarrassing one vote in the county prosecutor debate straw poll sponsored by the East Cleveland Coalition after tackling debate questions about claims of prosecutorial misconduct when he was an assistant county prosecutor before becoming judge. McGinty also allegedly ran from reporters after the debate. From the Metro Desk of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online New Blog.Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) East Cleveland, Ohio-Cuyahoga County prosecutor hopeful Tim McGinty stun

Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court Judge Alison Nelson Floyd (Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper Online Photo www.cleveland.com ) By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio-A controversial custody-adoption trial that began last Nov. between a poor Black Cleveland family and an affluent White couple with the popular judicial surname of Gallagher that were handed two new born Black children taken involuntarily from their teen mothers continues. Taken within months of their births and precluded from being cared for by extended family members as state law requires, the celebrated trial to get back three year-olds Jamela and Jamyla Barringer is center stage at the new Juvenile Court Justice Center on Quincy Ave. in Cleveland before Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court Judge Alison Nelson Floyd, who is Black. "Children and Family Services have a modern day slave plantation by stealing Black children and we want ou