Karen Farkas, The Plain Dealer UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio — Eight years after promising a prominent donor it would name a quadrangle for him, John Carroll University has removed a 250-space parking lot and created a sea of grass from the Dolan Science Center to the Administration Building. Restoring the lawn, which was paved in 2002 […]
Peter Krouse, The Plain Dealer GRAFTON, Ohio — James Collins has spent the last several years learning how to grow flowers and vegetables — everything from preparing soil to ridding plants of damaging pests. A soapy spray works on squash beetles, he said this month, planting zinnias will attract goldfinches that eat insects. “I prefer, […]
Behind the scenes of East Tech High School when Trey Songz visited the school to surprise the students and encourage them in the midst of all of the changes with transformation. Basheer Jones, of Z1079 Street Soildiers and WERE 1490am The Basheer Jones & Company morning show, and Cleveland schools CEO Eugene Sanders gathers all […]
Conservative commentator Glenn Beck says he shouldn’t have called President Obama a ‘racist.’
Joanne Mitchell, 60, and an acquaintance panhandle at a subway entrance at Union Station. What would happen if, instead of spare change, you handed a person in need the means to shop for whatever they needed? What would they buy? Can you spare your credit card, sir? In New York City, an advertising executive recently […]
William P. Foster, credited with innovating a much-imitated high-stepping style as founder and longtime director of the Florida A&M Marching 100 band, died Saturday. He was 91.
A 21-year-old man impersonated a 14-year-old by playing in a youth football league and attempted to enroll at a Hillsborough County Middle School, according to league and school district officials.
The 17-year-old daughter of the US ambassador to Thailand has died after falling from the top floor of a 25-story building in New York City. Police said Nicole John was believed to have been drinking at a party on Friday in Manhattan when she removed her shoes and climbed out onto a window ledge. She […]
A Somali man has admitted attacking a US warship in April after mistaking it for a merchant vessel. Jama Idle Ibrahim and five others chased the USS Ashland and opened fire on it before being captured, court papers said. He pleaded guilty to piracy-related charges in Norfolk, Virginia, and faces 30 years in jail. Five […]
Seven inmates at Folsom prison in California have been taken to hospital after guards opened fire during a riot, authorities say. None of the prisoners’ injuries are believed to be life-threatening, prison spokesman Luis Patino said. The riot, involving about 200 inmates, broke out on Friday night. No guards were injured, reports said. Three of […]
