Three years after the killing of Trayvon Martin, and subsequent killings of unarmed Black men sparked a national reaction movement in the form of #BlackLivesMatter, Dartmouth College is now set to offer a spring semester course dedicated to the politics of the hashtag. Dartmouth’s “10 Weeks, 10 Professors: #BlackLivesMatter” course will consider “race, structural inequality and violence in both a […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Horseshoe Casino Cleveland will host a second Table Games Academy to fill 130 part-time positions for table games dealers. Applications are still being accepted for the academy, which starts Aug. 25. “Summer is a busy time for a lot of people, so we decided to host a second, free table […]
AKRON, OH (WOIO) – The University of Akron has proposed suspending 55 academic programs following several years of review. At Wednesday’s Board meeting, Trustees requested that Faculty Senate provide input on proposals to suspend some academic programs, and that students applying for admission to those programs be informed about the possibility of being impacted […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – There will be 24 free tax prep clinics offered across Cuyahoga County this year as part of the IRS’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. “The most important job I have right now is making sure that Cuyahoga County government works for the people it serves,” said Cuyahoga County Executive […]
*Lamar Odom has agreed to plead “no contest” in his DUI case and in exchange he’ll be on probation for the next three years, TMZ has learned. Odom was arrested in L.A. on August 30 at 3:25 a.m. after cops saw him driving too slow on the 101 Freeway. He flunked field sobriety tests […]
OBERLIN, OH (WOIO) – Classes at Oberlin College were canceled on Monday after several hate-related incidents. Students say that for the past several months, there have been flyers posted around campus degrading African Americans and homosexuals. Early Monday morning, there was a report of a person wearing a KKK outfit on campus. The incident remains […]
CHARDON, OH (WOIO) – Chardon students returned to school today for the first time since a student gunman opened fire in the school cafeteria and fatally shot three students. Students from neighboring schools gathered outside the entrance to ‘clap-in’ Chardon students as they entered the building. “We just want to come and support them, show […]