Salvador Dali with A. Reynolds Morse and Eleanor Morse. Knoedler Gallery, New York 1943 Liz Navratil, The Plain Dealer ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA — Eleanor Reese Morse, a Cleveland native who with her husband amassed one of the world’s largest collections of Salvador Dali artwork, died of natural causes in St. Petersburg, Fla., Thursday. She was […]
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Day Two of the LeBron James pitch meetings are in effect, albeit with less fanfare. The Miami Heat, the team with the most salary-cap space at around $43 million, was the first to meet with James on Friday. The presentation lasted nearly three hours, the longest of the chats James has hosted […]
MEDINA, Ohio – A partnership between local law enforcement groups resulted in a first-time raid, nabbing twenty drug suspects. Medina police partnered with the Medina County Drug Task Force and the U.S. Marshals Service for Operation Bear Trap 1. Authorities arrested 18 suspects on Wednesday in a drug raid after an ongoing investigation. Police took […]
More than 600 teachers at 22 Cleveland public schools will not have to reapply for their jobs. An arbitrator ruled Wednesday evening that the teacher contract prohibits schools Chief Executive Eugene Sanders from implementing that key part of his transformation plan, which will launch in August. The decision is final. “The Cleveland Teachers Union has […]
Fact or fiction . . . or friction Because Cleveland was ground zero for the influx of free-agent news and rumors Thursday, it’s a little difficult to separate fact from fiction. Or should that be friction? But we gave it the old college try. • The New York Post’s Fred Kerber reports that Jay-Z’s pitch to […]
CLEVELAND —- Miami Heat President Pat Riley was not first but it didn’t stop Riley from getting a head start the daybefore the Heat’s scheduled meeting with LeBron James. The meeting takes place Friday morning at the IMG building on the corner of East 9th and St. Clair in downtown Cleveland. The New Jersey Nets were […]
RICHMOND, Va. — Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick says he was not involved with a shooting following his birthday celebration in Virginia Beach last week.
From TheGrio.com: Happy NBA Free Agency! This morning at 12:01AM, teams could officially start pitching NBA free agents. And by free agents, I mean the free agent — LeBron James. Yes, he has no rings to his credit. In fact he’s never even won a game in the NBA Finals. Sure, he’s failed to get the […]
NEW ORLEANS — BP’s massive oil spill became the largest ever in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday based on the highest of the federal government’s estimates, an ominous record that underscores the oil giant’s dire need to halt the gusher. The oil that’s spewed for two and a half months from a blown-out well […]
From The Root: As adults wrestle with rising foreclosure rates and disappearing jobs, child-development experts are reporting that children may end up shouldering some of the most severe, long-lasting consequences of the recession of 2008, according to the Foundation for Child Development(FCD). Working with an index of 28 indicators of quality of life called the […]
From RadarOnline.com: In one of the most explosive, racist and vile outbursts by a celebrity ever caught on tape, Mel Gibson told the mother of his love child that the way she was dressed would get her “raped by a pack of n***ers,” RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively. It’s a shocking and blockbuster development in the couple’s bitter […]
