KENT, OH (WOIO) – Police are investigating after a Kent State student was found dead in his dorm room. 26-year-old James Barnes of Midland, PA was found in his room after his family contacted police to do a welfare check. Barnes was discovered Sunday afternoon around 5PM on the fourth floor of Leebrick Hall – which houses freshmen […]
AKRON, OH (WOIO) – President Obama’s Jobs Bill was shot down by Senate Republicans Tuesday. The bill failed to get the 60 votes it needed even with 53 Democratic seats in the Senate the bill needed Republican support, which just didn’t happen. Republicans say the bill is more like a stimulus plan, that’s going to […]
BEREA, OH (WOIO) – Baldwin Wallace College is expanding. Private homes in the heart of the campus are now being relocated to another place so the college can expand. BW is working with the residents to make the growth as painless as possible. “The neighbors and the college got together and took a hard look at […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Around 12-hundred Case Western Reserve students and alumni attended Thursday’s job fair at the Vale Athletic Center. That is more people than the school expected. 133 organizations were represented. Recruiters met with interested candidates. Even the best and the brightest need a helping hand in this economy. 19 Action News spoke to several Case […]
Campus Democrats President Anais LaVoie thinks one Berkeley group has crossed the line with their bake sale. The Berkeley College Republicans scheduled a bake sale where the price of a cookie or a brownie depends on your gender and the color of your skin. WTH! The price of the goodies costs $2 for WHITE people, $1.50 […]
College is a new experience for so many of these kids. Parents who have done their best to provide a strong faith foundation end up anxiously wondering if their kids will keep the values taught to them, or continue going to service, or if they’ll give up their faith. This comes back to me every […]
AKRON, OH (WOIO) – A campus controversy at the University of Akron after a school official sent an e-mail to students, but it only went to some of them. The e-mail was sent out after a rash of crime around the University. The official claimed he wanted to keep students safe, but all it did was […]
Seems Shaquille O’Neal’s work as a sports analyst for Turner Sports won’t be the only thing filling up the former NBA star’s schedule…not after he graduates from directing school, that is. Yup, TMZ reports that the retired basketball champion is about to complete the Filmmaking Conservatory at the New York Film Academy’s branch at Universal […]
There are institutes of higher education popping up everywhere. They promise they can get you into a career in just two years. They tell you they will give you all the financial aid you need, help with job placement, on and on and on with the promises. But when you start your program or even complete it, there are immediate […]
http://www.bvonsports.com New York Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards is easing the burden of 100 Cleveland, OH high school students and fulfilling his promise to pay for their way through college, a promise valued at $1 million.The Jets player made the promise in 2008, when he told the students he would pay for them to attend […]
For her next big role, Halle Berry will be getting small. Berry, already an Oscar and Emmy winner, seems poised to hit the small screen this year, as she’s attached to star in a hot spec script titled, “Higher Learning.” Deadline reports that the Dreamworks-produced series is a hot commodity and is being pitched to […]
A month shy of his 16th birthday, Ty Hobson-Powell made history Sunday when he walked across the stage at The Lyric as the youngest person ever to graduate from the University of Baltimore. Hobson-Powell gave up a fledgling basketball career when he began college three years ago, commuted more than an hour each way from […]