YOUNGSTOWN, OH — Convicted federal felon Michael Leon Smedley is currently incarcerated in the Mahoning County Justice Center awaiting his May 5,…
CLEVELAND, OH – East Cleveland is a city that has been dying by a thousand paper cuts, most of them self-inflicted, many…
CLEVELAND, OH – In addition to my career as an investigative journalist, I am a former mayor, a United States Air Force…
CLEVELAND, OH – Convicted ex-Mayor Brandon Lee King and his former now convicted ex-chief of staff, Michael Leon Smedley, were involved in…
CLEVELAND, OHIO – Inside the closed doors of East Cleveland City Hall, there should be a frantic search underway for a “legal…
CLEVELAND, OH – For $400 an hour or $3200 a day and a law degree, attorney George Shoup, III is expected to…
CLEVELAND, OH – Only in East Cleveland does a city government operate without a budget and officials who don’t know they’re creating…
CLEVELAND, OH – Starting with Cedar Road in Beachwood or in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and in the hushed corridors of the Jewish…
CLEVELAND, OH — In the courtrooms of Ohio, a foundational and basic assumption is being dismantled, piece by fraudulent piece. Every day,…
CLEVELAND, OH — At precisely midnight on January 1, 2024, something extraordinarily criminal happened across the State of Ohio. One thousand and…
CLEVELAND, OH – In 2021, while the world was focused on a pandemic, convicted ex-East Cleveland Mayor Brandon Lee King and his…
CLEVELAND, OH — Local followers of the federal criminal trial of convicted ex-East Cleveland Mayor Brandon King’s chief of staff, Michael Leon…
CLEVELAND, OH – Sandra Morgan didn’t know how to terminate Kenneth Lundy as East Cleveland’s “acting” chief of police and didn’t understand…
CLEVELAND, OH – Ward 13 and new Ward 4 Councilman Kris Harsh has taken it upon himself to impersonate a housing inspector,…
CLEVELAND, OH – A civil stalking protection order has been granted against Ward 2 Councilman Timothy Austin for the threats of violence…
CLEVELAND, OH – When East Cleveland’s Clerk of Council Stacey White filed a June 23, 2025 sexual harassment and a criminal complaint…
CLEVELAND, OH – The growing suspicion that predominantly American Negro populated East Cleveland, Ohio is intentionally being destabilized for a takeover by…
CLEVELAND, OH – In order to sell her creative lie that the office of East Cleveland’s mayor is not vacant, and that…
CLEVELAND, OH – When Sandra Morgan delivered her oath of office to East Cleveland Clerk of Council Mansell Baker on or around…
CLEVELAND, OH – When Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Anthony Russo selected a mayor from the streets instead of East…
CLEVELAND, OH – Sandra Morgan will soon learn she should have listened when Ideastream’s Matt Richmond incredulously asked her if she was…
CLEVELAND, OH – It is not difficult to see how former interim East Cleveland Mayor Sandra Morgan misread Cuyahoga County Probate Court…
CLEVELAND, OH – Legendary Cleveland inventor Garrett Morgan’s granddaughter understood by the way she identified herself as “Interim Mayor Sandra Morgan” that…
CLEVELAND, OH – Ernest Lamont Smith, 49, doesn’t know how much of a loser he portrayed himself as when he told jurors…
CLEVELAND, OH – Attorney Heather McCollough could rightfully be nicknamed “Willa Mae Hemmons, Jr.” for the way she criminally engages in legal…
CLEVELAND, OH – One of indicted and suspended Mayor Brandon King’s last-minute alibis fell apart when his municipal court employee co-conspirator, Deborah…
CLEVELAND, OH – The Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation (CCLRC) quit-claimed a free home addressed at 12600 Speedway Overlook to East Cleveland…
CLEVELAND, OH – The dockets for the state and federal criminal trials of indicted and suspended East Cleveland Mayor Brandon King, recalled…
CLEVELAND, OH – Attorney Heather McCollough exposed an unconstitutional tactic she has been using to protect rights-violating East Cleveland police and prosecutors…
CLEVELAND, OH – Interim East Cleveland Mayor Sandra Morgan has enforced one of the two resolutions city council enacted on January 26,…
CLEVELAND, OH – The personal relationships and endorsements of top of the ticket national and Ohio Republicans are creating problems for Republican…
CLEVELAND, OH – White Americans missed the condescending message Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy’s father said he had for them during the Hindu alien’s…
EAST CLEVELAND, OH – It is obvious in reading the 69-page federal indictment of Michael Smedley, 56, Zubair Mehmet Abdur Razzaq Al…
CLEVELAND, OH – While it’s a duty of the director of finance of a municipal corporation to report to the legislative authority…
EAST CLEVELAND, OH – According to indicted Mayor Brandon King’s personal attorney, Willa Mae Hemmons, acting chief of police Kenneth Lundy was…
CLEVELAND, OH – Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Hollie Gallagher issued a November 26, 2024 nunc pro tunc order correcting…
EAST CLEVELAND, OH – Indicted East Cleveland Mayor Brandon King cried indigent to be assigned his court appointed counsel, Charles Tyler, Sr.,…
CLEVELAND, OH – When Vice President Kamaladevi “Kamala” Harris’ Indian and Jamaican alien parents entered the United States of America (U.S.) in…
CLEVELAND, OH – If Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne doesn’t end the contract with the American Financial and Development Corporation for Israel…
CLEVELAND, OH – Ahmed Abdullah El-Kwafi Abonamah was required to have taken six hours of initial fiscal education courses from the Ohio…

The origins of the video are unknown but what’s in it is clear. Two pairs of hands are shown holding two human beings facing each other who have been killed while removed from the bodies of their mothers. The umbilical cords are attached. This my friends is what EVIL looks like! Our own investigation into the abortion industry saw them playing catch with the babies in the hallway. Another investigation saw them playing "wishbone" with the aborted baby body parts. Thank you to @TaylorRMarshall for the video link. pic.twitter.com/HVMuiJdPTI — Fr. Frank Pavone (@frfrankpavone) June 5, 2019 Giggling medical…
Labores incorrupte vim an. Id augue populo alienum usu, has harum consectetuer ne, ne clita fuisset dignissim quo. Semper oportere assueverit eum eu. Ex facilisi dignissim vituperata mei, ad noluisse assueverit est. Nam no dico quas delectus.…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Donald Trump, personally, was always innocent of colluding with the Russian and Soviet foreign agents and influencers who’d infiltrated his 2016 campaign for President of the United States of America. He didn’t know all the people who were volunteering or sent to join his team or their motivations. Had Trump left Special Counsel Robert Mueller alone to do the job he’d been assigned by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and kept his mouth shut, the results of the investigation show he would have eventually been cleared of “Russian collusion.” Mueller would have delivered his conclusions to Rosenstein…

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Aidan Cook walked onto the stage where U.S. Senator Kamala Harris was speaking and appears to have glided his happy azz right past her husband, Douglas Emhoff, to snatch the microphone from the attorney’s “woman.” Harris’ husband didn’t lift a finger to stop him, according to a video-recording of the “MOVEON” event. It was a woman, daughter of Haitian immigrants Karine Jean-Pierre, who separated Cook from the daughter of Indian / Jamaican immigrants Harris. Eastern European Emhoff did not enter the stage until three other men stepped in and Cook was under control. Emhoff is shown…

COLUMBIA, SC – In his “unofficial” reaction to U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge’s claim that South Carolina purchased “awful” electronic voting equipment Ohio was dumping, Secretary of State Mark Hammond inserted words she didn’t use when he said the state didn’t buy “decertified” Ohio equipment. His words are also concerning since the South Carolina Elections Commission recently accepted bids from vendors to replace its current inventory of security-flawed electronic voting equipment the state purchased from Elections Solutions & Software (ES&S) in 2003; and installed in the state’s 46 counties between 2004 and 2005. The relationship between Global Election Systems. Diebold, Premier…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Some pretty nasty and health-threatening shit was found by Food & Drug Administration (FDA) inspectors at two businesses that produced tattoo inks. Tattoo artists are being warned not to use black and red inks from Dynamic Color, Inc. and Color Art, Inc. (dba Solid Ink) because they’re contaminated with food and animal bacteria. The official term is “microbial contamination.” The contamination violates the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to market an adulterated cosmetic in interstate commerce [21 U.S.C. 331(a)]. One of the ways a cosmetic becomes adulterated is if “it contains a poisonous or deleterious substance…

USA – There’s a video on an adult website that appears to be created by two truckers. One is holding the camera and the other is about to have sex with a woman who may be in her 60’s. She has no teeth. She looks haggard. Her voice is the husky one of a chronic smoker. She’s wearing a bright purple dress that contrasts her pale white body and blonde hair. As a younger woman the viewer gets the impression she may have been attractive. The woman sprays her body before sex with what appears to be a bug spray…

CLEVELAND, OH – Mayors in the USA are not equipped or trained in international relations and it’s not within the duties of Ohio mayors to engage in international diplomacy. But since 1957 a “program” left by President Dwight D. Eisenhower encourages mayors untrained in foreign relations to create “information exchanging” relationships with unknown officials and unregistered espionage-trained agents of foreign governments from nations that are spying in the USA. The mayors may not know they’re passing on information to unregistered foreign agents who are seeking to acquire information important to this nation’s national defense. Nowhere is this more evident…

COLUMBUS, OH – State Rep. Janine Boyd represents an Ohio “House” district from Cleveland Heights that’s majority populated by men, women and children whose ancestral roots in this nation are to slavery. With the skill of a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, the “black” representative avoided a lot of statistics to push an amendment that exempted the lives of babies of women who are Descendants of Slaves from being saved under the state’s new “heartbeat” law. According to Boyd, Ohio physicians should be authorized by law to kill only the babies of black women. The reason for Boyd’s…

CLEVELAND, OH – Emcee and rap artist “Rootabang” could almost be “Djay” in the film “Hustle & Flow” as the character portrayed by another Clevelander, actor Terrence Howard. Rootabang’s out in Cleveland’s streets hustling for long money and creates a song called “Money Long.” Djay’s was “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp.” Djay’s song becomes popular while he’s in jail for beating the shit out of another rapper, Skinny Black. Rootabang’s song becomes popular while he’s in between a jail term for a March 2015 rape and an August 2015 federal indictment for ripping off a casino with 16…

CLEVELAND, OH – The state’s lawmakers made it clear to individuals applying for public jobs as employees of the Ohio Highway Patrol that their law enforcement duties in Title 55 of the revised code were limited to enforcing laws and investigating accidents “outside municipal corporations” on the state’s roads and highways. They have authority to patrol roads and investigate accidents in townships. Two sections of R.C. 5503.02 gives them the authority to enforce “criminal laws” inside municipal corporations. One is only at the request of the county’s sheriff or a mayor whose city was facing riot, insurrection or civil disorder. …

CLEVELAND, OH – Secretary of State Frank LaRose should ask former Russian-American U.S. Attorney Steve Dettelbach why he had Diebold CEO Walden O’Dell in a position to learn and didn’t investigate if he’d placed the technology to rig electronic voting software and equipment that could control Ohio elections in 46 of 88 counties in the hands of the Russian Federation. The Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) initiated an investigation of Diebold in 2005 for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. A complaint was filed against Diebold in 2010 that the Canton corporation settled in 2014 for $48 million after…

CLEVELAND, OH – “Enough is enough” is the clear message coming from Mayor Frank Jackson’s office. Jackson’s top administrator, Valarie McCall, told EJBNEWS the mayor wants the Plain Dealer and cleveland.com to retract the Mark Naymik lie that he isn’t showing up for work because he’s caring for his wife. McCall said Jackson is at work daily and Naymik’s report that he isn’t is false. It’s especially false, she said, since Naymik and other journalists have been given Jackson’s schedule. McCall said Naymik and three other reporters from local media outlets wanted to keep tabs on the mayor, so they…

EUCLID, OH – College educator Richard Montgomery, Phd. had barely announced his plans to seek the city’s job as mayor when a group of residents who wanted to maintain the racial status quo joined a social media group’s conversation about splitting or “diverting” the black vote. Their conversation was shared outside the group. Euclid residents on both sides reacted angrily to the vote-splitting plan they were conceiving. A black participant was particularly scorned by other black residents for agreeing to help their vote-splitting scheme to create an “ebony and ivory” ticket with a “solid” candidate other than Montgomery. A candidate…

LAKEWOOD, OH – For the next 15 years Kenneth R. Bolton has to register with the county he lives in as a sex offender because he rubbed a dildo between the legs of two women stopped for an East Cleveland traffic violation in 2017. Bolton was convicted in October 2017 and sentenced to 6 months at Allen Oakwood Correctional Institute in Lima. Bolton’s attorney, Fernando Mack, filed for judicial release to get the sex freak ex-cop out of jail after two months. He’s now living in Lakewood on Woodward. His wife, Tiffany, finally got a probate judge to dissolve the…

EAST CLEVELAND, OH – The twice-convicted police captain leading East Cleveland’s detective bureau may soon find himself facing new criminal charges after Ohio’s State Employee Relations Board (SERB) investigates why Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) Lodge #39 is still in existence. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) automatically revoked FOP Lodge #39’s tax-exempt status in 2013 after its president, Captain Scott Gardner, failed to file required 990 tax returns in 2010, 2011 and 2012. The last 990 was filed for 2009. EJBNEWS has learned no 990’s were filed between 2010 and 2018. For the past 10 years Gardner and other Lodge #39 officials…

CLEVELAND, OH – Armond Budish didn’t show up to receive the humanitarian award from Rev. E. Theophilis Caviness’ local Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) chapter that it cost him $5000 in campaign donations to buy. Caviness’ “award for cash” civil rights honor to Budish was seen as a political move and wrong by Euclid NAACP chapter President Cassandra McDonald so she wrote him a polite letter with a request that he reconsider. Caviness wrote back a two-page indignant response. The first page identified his own biography and inserted his sole connection to Rev. King. He met the younger pastor in…

EAST CLEVELAND, OH – Municipal court Judge William Dawson told EJBNEWS it was the city’s contracted lawyer, Willa Hemmons, who withdrew a “dereliction of duty” complaint against three Cleveland police officers she charged for failing to supervise the more than 100 cops that entered the city in violation of the state’s warrantless pursuit law on November 29, 2012. Thirteen Cleveland cops drew their weapons on Timothy Russell and his passenger, Malissa Williams, and gunned them down in a hail of 137 bullets. Ex-Cleveland cop Michael Brelo stood on the hood of Russell’s car and fired 47 rounds into their bodies;…

CLEVELAND, OH – Uh oh. A game of presidential “dozens.” Jared Kushner should have a pretty good idea of how his wife Ivana Trump-Kushner, Jr. might look in her 70’s based on her mother, Ivanka Sr.’s sagging-plasticized appearance. If he’s not screwing other women already, he’s got his POTUS father-in-law’s “grab ’em by the pussy” ethics as an example for how he’s allowed to roll if she starts looking as hard as her Trump-worn-looking mother. Donald be hard on his women. Magazines that follow celebrities have been keeping tabs on the well-photographed “daddy’s little tag-along” Ivanka since before she was…

EAST CLEVELAND, OH – Roger Ashley’s murder makes no sense. He and his brother left together after a November 19th family visit and decided to stop at the GAS USA across from Shaw High School and the Sunoco. His brother said “the best corned beef sandwiches are in the ‘hood.” Ashley, 38, lived in Euclid but was raised in East Cleveland and liked corned beef sandwiches. The stop was routine. The events that took his life were not. The alleged shooter was already in the store when the two men arrived after 1:30 a.m. Roger went to order a sandwich. …

CLEVELAND, OH – While federal agencies are investigating officials in Cleveland, East Cleveland, Cleveland Heights and the Cuyahoga County “land bank” for accepting “things of value” from individuals representing companies doing business with the local governments, Ward 7 Councilman Basheer Jones used the office of a councilman to shake down the down owners of Dave’s Supermarket for 50 baskets of food. https://www.facebook.com/BasheerJonesofficial/videos/534470893720896/ Jones’ “shake down” of Dave’s came less than a week after building department employees were ordered by Mayor Frank Jackson to stop taking asking for and receiving gift cards and food from individuals representing companies doing business…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge’s appointment to chair the House Administration Committee’s Subcommittee on Elections elevates her nationally as a congressional investigator just like the man whose 11th Congressional District footsteps she follows. The late Louis Stokes, investigated the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Rep. Fudge in 2019 will be investigating the nation’s elections. After the November 8, 2018 general elections Fudge talked with EJBNEWS and said she decided to challenge U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi for a seat as Speaker of the House knowing it would be a challenge to win. Pelosi…

CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OH – Lance Mason has been charged with aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault and violation of a protection order for killing the mother of his two daughters, Aisha Fraser, on November 19. But just like in 2014 when the county’s judges took a pass on presiding over their former judicial colleague’s domestic violence trial, citing conflicts of interest, Mason’s been assigned a judge from Stark County who’s been blasted for giving a sex-offending school teacher 30 days in jail for having sex with a student. The ex-judge entered a plea of “not guilty” and was held on a $5…

CLEVELAND, OH – The City of Cleveland is now clearly known as the site where candidate Donald Trump’s ex-attorney, Michael Cohen, told Special Counsel Robert Mueller and federal investigators that “colluding” players met in 2016 to discuss a way to give a $50 million bribe to Russian President Vladmir Putin. Lifting sanctions against the Russian government was also on the table for a Cleveland discussion. So was a way to undermine Hillary Clinton’s presidential nomination within the Democratic Party. The convenience of a partnership with the Cleveland law firm of Squire, Patton & Boggs (formerly Squire, Sanders & Dempsey) John Adams…

CLEVELAND, OH – Some African Americans think Dan Gilbert is “cool” because he’s from Detroit, Michigan, owns an NBA team that Lebron James’ talent made money; and is seen in pictures with a lot of prominent black folk he gives money. What’s not “cool” about Gilbert is how he’s redlined Cleveland’s black neighborhoods out of his Quickens Loans lending equation like every other racist lender in the local housing loan marketplace. Cleveland’s “Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research” released a report in July 2018 this town’s mainstream media ignored. The report co-authored by Michael Lepley and Lenore Mangiarelli was…

CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OH – American Negro residents of the state’s largest county have been complaining that the county treasurer’s foreclosure process was unconstitutional and rigged against them ever since greedy Greek American lawyers James Rokakis and Gus Frangos wrote state laws to let the treasurer’s office they led sell delinquent property tax bills to third party investors in 1997. There have been complaints that landbank employees and friends of Rokakis and Frangos have taken advantage of the public offices they hold and political relationships for their pick of the more than 100,000 homes taken from others since 2006 for pennies…

SHAKER HEIGHTS, OH – The story emerging about Lance Mason’s relationship with ex-wife Aisha Fraser is that he was the type of man a man who loved women would not want dating or marrying his sister. He wasn’t physically violent. Lance was controlling and verbally abusive. The disturbing description of their marriage EJBNEWS learned of came in part from the political community of people who knew Lance and Aisha, but who were closer to him and knew “of” her. Some knew all four of the parents who raised both Lance and Aisha in Shaker Heights, Ohio where they attended high…

EAST CLEVELAND, OH – Witnesses are starting to receive notices from Ohio Attorney General Richard Michael DeWine to appear in the civil trial next year of George Michael Riley and Christine Beynon for operating an illegal construction and demolition debris dump in a densely-populated urban neighborhood and behind residential homes. The trial is scheduled for June 24, 2019 in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas and has been assigned to Judge Sean Gallagher. DeWine wants Riley and Beynon to pay $10,000 a day in fines for every day they were in violation of state laws that prohibitted illegal dumping. EJBNEWS obtained…

SHAKER HEIGHTS, OH – Ronald B. Williams is from Atlanta, Georgia but had moved to New York to work and was relocating to Cleveland, Ohio to marry Aisha Fraser. On his Facebook page Williams makes reference to Fraser ” living in fear and being trapped by circumstances and responsibilities, so much that you couldn’t even save your own life, you had to depend on others.” Williams’ thoughts amplify the concerns of another person who now thinks Mason’s words had a different meaning when he shared with her that he couldn’t see himself without “his” family before he nearly decapitated his ex-wife in…

CLEVELAND, OH – Nicole Delamotte got it in her mind to reach out to an uncle who didn’t stay in touch with “the family” and the family didn’t stay in touch with him. The 30-year-old well-liked reporter hadn’t seen him in 15 years. Delamotte had fond memories of her father’s brother, so her Facebook post on October 14, 2018 describes a newly-found courage from being a reporter that emboldened her to go up to someone’s door she didn’t know and knock on it. The Facebook post generated 262 categories of “likes” and 11 comments from friends. None thought of asking…

SHAKER HEIGHTS, OH – The niece of Successnet founder George Fraser told her ex-husband she was planning to remarry and that her fiance` was moving in with her and their two daughters before he stabbed her to death. In ex-Judge Lance Mason’s mind the chance for the reconciliation he wanted with ex-wife and Shaker Heights 6th grade teacher Aisha Fraser-Mason was over. So was her life when he stabbed her in the neck in front of their children. So was his. The Shaker Heights tragedy has twice shocked greater Cleveland’s black community among the people who knew them both. No…

SHAKER HEIGHTS, OH – Ex-Judge Lance Mason stabbed his ex-wife in the neck early on November 17th and texted a friend to tell her he was contacting his attorney, Fernando Mack, to surrender to police. The ex-judge was at his ex-wife’s home at 17611 Chagrin Boulevard when he stabbed her to death in front of their two children and left in a panic; hitting a police officer as he drove away. The friend said Mason had been working to rebuild his life since his release from prison in June 2016. Both Mason’s parent’s died before his incarceration. His brother, Lauren, died…

CLEVELAND, OH – Robert J. Delamotte, 67, appeared to be living a quiet life in the Friendly Village mobile home park in Wood County, Ohio’s Perrysburg Township, until his niece, Nicole Delamotte-Ullman, tracked him down and paid him a visit. There doesn’t appear to be anything nefarious about Nicole’s reasons for reaching out to an uncle she described in a Facebook post on October 14, 2018 as not having seen in 15 years. Nicole’s grandmother had died on on September 21, 2018 and it took her to her hometown in Toledo on October 13th to attend her funeral. According to…

CLEVELAND, OH – The AdvanceOhio chief executive who normally has a lot to say in controlled media settings about the city’s political affairs and public figures was unusually terse in his email to EJBNEWS that sought his response to Cleveland councilman Kenneth Johnson’s description of stories by reporter Mark Naymik as “fake news.” The independent website also asked Quinn if he would identify AdvanceOhio’s political, institutional and corporate clients; and the articles and acts that have been created to support their campaigns. “I will not be responding to your inquiries,” Quinn wrote as he copied AdvanceOhio employees George Rodrigue, Elizabeth Sullivan…

CLEVELAND, OH – Mark Naymik has authored a series of critical stories on cleveland.com as an AdvanceOhio employee that have targeted Ward 4 Councilman Kenneth Johnson as being responsible for acts that have been performed by employees supervised by mayors Frank Jackson, Jane Campbell, Michael R. White and George Voinovich. Naymik’s reporting creates the “illusion” that Johnson is engaged in wrongdoing; but in 5-stories he hasn’t identified by statute a single local, state or federal law the Ward 4 councilman has violated as one member of a 17-member legislative body. Under Ohio law and Cleveland’s charter Johnson’s only authority is…

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – The FOX NEWS report written by Caleb Parke that Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan lead a “death to America” chant in Tehran, Iran is a lie. FOX NEWS commentator Alan Dershowitz made himself look like a complete fool on national television by asking Democrats to condemn Farrakhan for comments that he not only didn’t make, but that appeared to piss him off when asked to lead it by a PRESS TV reporter. The Final Call released a complete audio-recording of his November 8, 2018 news conference in Tehran at Press TV’s offices. When a Press…

ST. LOUIS, MO – County police are claiming her son Danye Jones’ death is a suicide. Activist Melissa McKinnies says the county’s cops are wasting their time. Her son didn’t commit suicide. He was lynched. Investigating a suicide instead of a murder is letting the murderer’s trail go cold, she believes. McKinnies held a news conference on November 11, 2018 and posted two images of her dead son on Facebook to dramatize the urgency of her demand; and to motivate police and the public to treat the investigation accordingly. There’s no way Danye Jones was “ready to leave his mother,”…

AKRON, OH – James Anthony has a right as an American citizen to his personal and racial biases and political views, and the public has a right to evaluate them to determine his fitness for the job he holds as a member of the Akron police department. Last week Anthony posted a comment on his Facebook page and shared a deadly thought about Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan. Anthony wanted to know why he hadn’t been “offed.” It’s doubtful that Anthony knows anything about Farrakhan other than how he’s been portrayed in the “white” media. His thoughts reflect a…

EAST CLEVELAND, OH – The General Assembly of Ohio gave the Auditor of State the duty of auditing every government agency “inside” the state annually or a minimum of every two years. East Cleveland’s 2014 audit was released on May 15, 2018 three years after David Yost in his official capacity was supposed to deliver it. The city is in fiscal emergency for the second time since 1988. Betty Montgomery was the Republican state auditor who released the city from fiscal emergency in February 2006. But she did it without providing the incoming mayor and council with a current…

CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OH – One day after FBI agents visited the Cuyahoga County jail, warden Eric Ivey stopped citizens being held for trial or serving time from making and receiving telephone calls. Control room deputies conducted a “red zone” lock down on outgoing and incoming calls throughout the day. Those jailed were told two men were caught talking after 11 p.m. the same night FBI agents visited the jail. The next day phones that are normally available between the hours of 9 a.m. and 10 p.m. to inmates who purchase $25 phone cards were silenced. Sources said rule violations usually…