You might have thought the $15 dollar minimum wage in Cleveland was dead. Maybe not. An Ohio judge has just tossed out a law passed last year, that kept cities from hiking minimum wage above the state limit. The controversial Senate Bill 331 started as something completely unrelated, dealing with pet stores. But the legislation […]

EAST CLEVELAND — Backers of an effort to recall Mayor Gary Norton have fallen short of the needed number of signatures to get the recall on the ballot. They submitted 728 signatures on petitions but 298 were tossed out for a variety of reasons that made either petitions and/or signatures invalid. 559 valid signatures were […]

  *An undisclosed settlement has been reached in the discrimination suit against Paula Deen and her brother, Earl “Bubba” Hiers and the case was dismissed in a Georgia federal court Friday, according to Georgia TV station WTOC. The celebrity chef and her brother were being sued by a woman who said she was subjected to […]

  *A judge has tossed out Chris Brown’s hit-and-run case after the alleged victim expressed a reluctance to press charges. The 24-year-old singer had been accused of smashing into a woman’s Mercedes-Benz with his Range Rover on May 21 and failing to give the driver his insurance documentation and identification, but after the alleged victim […]