Pamela Ramsey, director of a West Virginia organization, will return to work on December 23.   Well, that didn’t last long. The director of a West Virginia federally funded non-profit who was temporarily suspended for calling Michelle Obama an “ape in heels” just got her position back, according to The Huffington Post. Pamela Ramsey, director of Clay […]

Rose believes the rape accusations caused indelible harm to his image.   Now that NBA star Derrick Rose has been cleared of all charges in a civil rape case, he’s seeking to sue the woman who levied the allegations against him. Rose believes that the accusations, which were related to an alleged rape incident in […]

Two West Virginia officials have come under fire for making racist remarks about First Lady Michelle Obama with one losing her job as a result, the Charleston Gazette-Mail. Pamela Taylor, the director at the non-profit Clay County Development Corporation in Clay, West Virginia, recently wrote on her Facebook page,“It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, […]

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The Baltimore Police Union is calling on state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby to throw out all charges against the officers involved in the Freddie Gray case. This comes after one of the six officers, Caesar Goodson Jr., was acquitted of all charges placed against him on Thursday. This is the second time that Mosby’s team has failed […]

CLEVELAND — Thousands of visitors will pump about $8 million to $10 million into the regional economy as the nation’s sports spotlight focuses on Cleveland this week. That is the “guesstimate” from Destination Cleveland’s David Gilbert. Cleveland will join Los Angeles, Houston and Syracuse hosting a Regional Semifinal in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. And […]

*The above posting ran in the West Virginian newspaper The Dominion Post on Saturday, seeking a suspect described only as a “black man” and having done something “suspicious.” According to Mediate, the online version of the post was soon updated with a description of the actual crime he was connected with (stolen credit cards), three […]

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A school superintendent and three more people have been charged by a grand jury that investigated whether other laws were broken in the rape of a 16-year-old West Virginia girl last year in eastern Ohio. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced the charges Monday in Steubenville. The grand jury had investigated […]