George R. Stuart Elementary School has been named a Capturing Kids’ Hearts National Showcase School for 2021-2022. George R. Stuart Elementary School is the first Cleveland City Schools’ elementary school to earn this distinction. Both Cleveland High School and Cleveland Middle School received this honor last week. "Capturing Kids’ Hearts, a Flippen Group program, focuses ... (click for more)

Several Lee University students participated at the National Model United Nations conference in New York alongside thousands of other students from universities around the world. NMUN is a simulation of the United Nations. At the conference, Lee students became United States diplomats, representing the interests of the U.S. in the U.N. while also contributing ideas and working ... (click for more)

An unresponsive female inmate at the Silverdale Detention Center died after being taken to the hospital. On Monday at approximately 2 p.m., Hamilton County EMS was called to Silverdale in response to a medical emergency involving an unresponsive female inmate (age 53). The inmate was transported to a local hospital where she was pronounced deceased. The inmate’s next ... (click for more)

A woman charged in the stabbing death of 60-year-old George Deramus pleaded guilty on Monday morning to the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter. Tavowia Hinton, who was 49 at the time of the Dec. 2, 2018, incident, had been facing a charge of second-degree murder. She was given a six-year prison sentence, but it was suspended. Ms. Hinton was directed not to have any contact ... (click for more)

“And so we come to commencement, that glorious moment of achievement when a high school or college graduate will be awarded a hard-earned diploma and venture into a complex world full of promise and fright.” Uh-huh. Except for over 40 million young Americans who are saddled with a collective debt of well over $1.5 trillion, and who are being “blamed” by conservatives like Roy ... (click for more)

I have written dozens of obituaries in my life and eulogized many people. I am not ashamed to admit I think I am good at it and I am flattered when a friend’s family approaches me to ask for my help. I have written a number of obituaries on those who are still alive who want to “proof-read” what will be turned into the funeral home and I have honored death-bed requests that this ... (click for more)