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USA Olympic Gold Medalist Gabrielle Douglas By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com www.clevelandur bannews.com 0 CLEVELAND, Ohio-Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog. Com salute 16-year-old Olympic gold medalist Gabrielle Douglas, who is Black, and who won the gold metal in the women's individual gymnastics all around category on Thursday during the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. Watch this video of Gabby Douglas where she placed first at the pretrials to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in gymnastics Douglas, of Virginia Beach, VA, topped silver medalist Viktoria Komova of Russia to take the metal, and she became the first African-American and the third consecutive American to win a gold metal in the individual all around competition. She also led the U.S.A. women's team to a gold metal in the team all around competition. YouTube.com fo

Richard Cordray From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CINCINNATI, Ohio – On Friday, nine Cleveland-area physicians who provide health care to poor patients through the Medicaid program, and were blocked by state law from expressing their support for then-Ohio Attorney Gen eral Richard Cordray through campaign contributions to his 2010 race to retain his seat, won their appeal to the federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati , Oh., which determined that the law violated the free speech clause of the First Amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. At issue were efforts by the physicians to block Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted from enforcing an Ohio statute, also known as a state law, that makes it a crime for Ohio attorney-general and county-prosecutor candidates to accept campaign contributions from physicians who serve Medica

U.S. Federal District Court Judge Sara Lioi Jimmy Dimora By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com www.clevelandur bannews.com 0 AKRON, Ohio-An attorney for former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora and at least one community activist out of the Cleveland, Oh. area say that the 28-year federal prison sentence handed to the former chairperson of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party on Tuesday for convictions by an Akron federal jury in March of racketeering and 32 other corruption-related charges is absurd at best. "Notwithstanding the crimes that Jimmy Dimora was convicted of, I think the punishment was too severe," said Larry Bresler, a Cleveland community activist and inactive attorney who teaches classes on community organizing at Case Western Reserve University and leads the Northeast Ohio Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign and Organize Ohio. "People that commit mu

Terrell Gausha By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com www.clevelandur bannews.com 0 LONDON, England-Cleveland Glenville High School Graduate Terrell Gausha lost a one-point decision in the second round at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games on Thursday to Indian matinee idol Vijender, whom sports pundits predicted the winner . A middleweight division fighter, Gausha, 24, was among the 16 amateur boxers out of the original 32 to advance to the quarter finals. A former Golden Gloves champion who began boxing at the age of 10, Gausha, who is Black, won the first round of the boxing competition by knocking out Armenia's Andranik Hakobvan in the third round. He is a product of the Cleveland Municipal School District, the city of Cleveland's predominantly Black school system. Cleveland is the second largest city in Ohio with roughly 400, 000 people. Columbus is number one and is the state's capita

United States President Barack Obama LeBron James By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com www. clevelandur bannews .com 0 AKON , Ohio- President Barack Obama will visit Akron, Oh. on Wednesday where NBA great LeBron James is a native, a city some 35 miles south of Cleveland that has a Black residential section with constituents that are now part of Congresswoman Marcia Fudge's 11 th congressional district. He will also make a stop in Mansfield, Oh. as part of his campaign tour. Obama for America campaign officials did not say in a press release to Cleveland Urban News.Com on the upcoming visit whether James will join the president in Akron, though the basketball star did campaign for Obama in 2008, the year he won election as America's first Black president. The president comes to the Cleveland area for a third time this summer. He visi ted the Cleveland suburb of Parma earlier this mont

Gwendolyn Riase B y Gwendolyn Riase, Contributing Writer (Editor's note: The below article is that of Gwendolyn Riase and not necessarily the opinion or position of Cleveland Urban News.Com or the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News.Com. Her comments are her opinion and are not meant to serve as any legal, financial or other advice) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Most of us keep a sharp eye out for potholes on the road. It can really cost you big bucks to replace your tires, rims and hubcaps. These are literal potholes. But there are also financial “potholes” that will devour you and all your money without a watchful eye for them, as well. Here are two to consider: Lump Sum Settlements – Let’s say you sued someone and won a sum of money that is to be paid monthly or yearly until it is paid to you in full. Or you have an inheritance or win the lottery. You may have a large sum of money coming to you, but you’ll only be paid in small amounts (yearly or monthly) over a number of years. Some c

Terrell Gausha By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com www.clevelandur bannews.com 0 LONDON, England-Glenville High School Graduate Terrell Gausha got closer to a gold metal and made the Cleveland schools and America proud with a third round knockout at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games on Saturday of his opponent, Armenia's Andranik Hakobvan. A middleweight division fighter, Gausha, 24, is among the 16 remaining amateur boxers out of the original 32 to advance to the quarter finals and will box again at 9:30 am on Thursday against Indian matinee idol Vijender. "He knocked him out and you don't see that much in Olympic boxing," said Michael Nelson, an entrepreneur who owns the restaurant The Kitchen, and Lil Africa, a party and versatility building at 69th St and Superior Ave in Cleveland where Gausha had sparred in practice and regular boxing matches. "He is just another examp