More than a week after two Ohio high school football players were found guilty of sexual assault, a member of the state’s NAACP executive committee criticized the actions of the 16-year-old victim. Royal Mayo, formerly the president of the Steubenville, Ohio NAACP chapter, defended Steubenville High School students Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond during an [...]
2 Ohio High School Football Players Found Guilty of Rape
March 17, 2013 | Posted by
An Ohio judge found two teens guilty of raping a female friend at a party last year while she was incapacitated by alcohol. Ma’lik Richmond, 16, and Trent Mays, 17, both football players at Steubenville High School, were captured in damning photo and video evidence carrying the girl and talking about the incident afterward, referring [...]
Wrongfully Imprisoned Ohio Man Awarded $13.2 Million Settlement
March 10, 2013 | Posted by
An Ohio man who spent more than a decade in prison for a crime he didn’t commit has been awarded a $13.2 million dollar settlement for his pain and suffering. David Ayers, 56, was imprisoned for the beating death of 76-year-old Dorothy Brown in 2000, but earned a reversal of his conviction based on DNA [...]
Oberlin College Cancels Classes After Racist Incidents
March 5, 2013 | Posted by
A series of hateful messages have led to a “day of solidarity” at Ohio’s Oberlin College. Classes were canceled Monday as administrators sought to address the outbreak of racist, antigay and anti-Semitic messages scrawled across the liberal institution’s campus. College President Marvin Krislov apologized to students affected by the messages during an assembly at the [...]
In 2013 Ten States Will Raise Minimum Wage
December 31, 2012 | Posted by
Workers in Rhode Island will see their paychecks grow the most — by an average of $510 a year for the average worker, according to the National Employment Law Project, a nonprofit advocacy group. The state enacted a law in June raising its minimum wage 35 cents to $7.75 an hour. In nine other states [...]
Karl Rove Stuns Fox Talent By Disputing Ohio Call For President Obama
November 7, 2012 | Posted by
The alternate reality that Karl Rove and other right-wing Republicans call home wasn’t buying the notion that somehow President Barack Obama had carried the key swing state of Ohio on Tuesday evening. Not even from his good friends at Fox News. The GOP political strategist and former senior aide to George W. Bush balked with [...]
Provisional Ballots In Ohio Could Send Presidential Election To The Courts
November 6, 2012 | Posted by
Political analysts have long viewed Ohio as the linchpin state that would determine the outcome of the presidential election. Only it could prove true in the courts rather than at the ballot box. The heavy saturation of provisional ballots and the state’s maze of archaic rules and regulations determining their validation lends itself to a [...]
The Path To The Necessary 270 Electoral Votes Favors President Obama
November 6, 2012 | Posted by
First one to 270 wins. Electoral College math can be tricky, but knowing that 270 votes is the minimum needed for either President Barack Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney to claim victory in today’s presidential election makes it easier to understand. Varying political landscapes mean that each candidate has an array of possible ways [...]
Final Polls Give Barack Obama Slight Edge Over Mitt Romney In Presidential Race
November 6, 2012 | Posted by
President Barack Obama should win a second term after squeaking out narrow wins in a number of key swing states, according to the final presidential polls released on Sunday. Polls by the Pew Research Center, NBC/Wall Street Journal, CNN/ORC International and YouGov show the president with enough of a narrow but significant lead over Republican [...]
New Polls: Swing States Split In Support Of President Obama, Mitt Romney
November 5, 2012 | Posted by
Voters in swing states are evenly split between President Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney, according to a new poll from USA Today and Gallup. According to the poll, which was released late Sunday, 48 percent of likely voters in 12 of the nation’s key battleground states back Obama, while 48 percent prefer Romney. The [...]
