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Mayor Frank Jackson said both agencies provide superior services, but the city needs to explore ways to save money in tough economic times and deliver higher quality services. He doesn’t know how much, if any, money the move will save money. Jackson calls the combining of services an integration, not a merger.Full Story Cleveland.com
Tenable Protective Services, Inc, in combination with Tenable Event Services, specializes in security, law enforcement, event staffing, management services, mobile patrol, investigations, consulting and training services.Full Story WKYC.com
By Aaron Marshall, The Plain Dealer COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nickie Antonio has been a special-ed teacher and a “soccer mom.” She has chaired the Cuyahoga Democratic Women’s Caucus and is in her second term on the Lakewood City Council. She is also openly gay. It’s that last fact that is getting the attention in light […]
The Ohio National Guardsmen who fired on students and antiwar protesters at Kent State University on May 4, 1970 were given an order to prepare to shoot, according to a new analysis of a 40-year-old audio tape of the event. “Guard!” says a male voice on the recording, which two forensic audio experts enhanced and […]
In another sign that the recovery in the U.S. economy is taking hold, employers added significantly more jobs to payrolls in April, according to a government report released Friday. There was a gain of 290,000 jobs in the month, up from a revised 230,000 jobs added in March. It was the largest number of jobs […]
Ray Towler was released this week after spending 29 years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit. DNA testing proved Towler’s innocence. In addition to approximately $1.4 million he’s expected to get from the state, plus lost wages, for the wrongful imprisonment and butchered trial, Towler is raking in some deserved swag. He got […]
Former Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor was arrested early this morning and will be charged with third-degree rape involving a 15-year-old girl at a hotel in Montebello, N.Y., according to police. The Journal News reported that the victim was a runaway from the Bronx who was brought to the Holiday Inn by a pimp, according to Ramapo police supervisor […]
By John Mangels, The Plain Dealer KENT, Ohio — Forty years ago, the air was choked with tear gas and the hillside was trampled by army boots and stained with blood. On Tuesday afternoon, May 4, 2010, Blanket Hill at Kent State University was awash in music. People hugged long-lost friends, or sat on […]
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Raymond Towler has maintained for 29 years that he didn’t rape an 11-year-old girl in 1981, and a recent DNA test exonerates him. The 52-year-old man has been an Ohio inmate since Sept. 24, 1981 and is expected to be released from prison Wednesday morning.Cleveland.com Full Story
From WSAW The FBI has arrested a Platteville Police Officer, charging her with smoking crack cocaine. The news came as a shock to the small police department. Monday afternoon Platteville Police Chief Doug McKinley got a visit from the FBI. “They let us know that they’d had an ongoing investigation concerning a member of our […]
Forty springs ago, on the day the Vietnam War came home as it never had before, Mary Ann Vecchio was there. She’s the girl in the haunting photo — crying, kneeling over the student’s body. That was Kent State University, May 4, 1970, a few days after Richard Nixon, who’d campaigned for president on an […]