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THE BUZZ! Baltimore City schools shares plan to address teacher shortage School is less than a week away here in Baltimore and school districts are still faced with some challenges. One of them being a shortage of qualified teachers. BCPS officials say they will be hiring the same amount of teachers they hire every year, […]

New York Lt. Gov. Benjamin resigns following arrest in bribery scheme So the Lt governor job in NY is a tough one to hold. Last year Andrew Cuomo resigned from that position after being accused of sexual misconduct and well now the man who replaced, Brian Benjamin,  just resigned as well, after being indicted on […]

Black communities cannot even enjoy a brief reprieve from police violence. Local reporters explained that many of the people who came outside as news of Ma'Khia's death began to circulate had been heading downtown in anticipation of the Chauvin verdict. 

A white police officer in Columbus, Ohio, was fired on Monday for fatally shooting an unarmed Black man last week in what the city’s police chief deemed an “unreasonable use of deadly force,” the city’s public safety director said. Hill was shot to death in the garage of a house where he had been staying […]

The body of a young woman recovered from the Scioto River in Ohio on Saturday has been identified as 28-year-old community activist Amber Evans by Columbus Police. She had been missing since Jan. 28. Columbus Police released the news on Sunday, sharing a statement on Twitter. Evans’ body was found by Columbus Police Special Victims […]

Columbus residents were outraged when video surfaced earlier this week of Columbus Police Officer Zachary Rosen appearing to kick Demarko Anderson while handcuffed in police custody.  Later in the same day Columbus residents were even more upset to find out Officer Rosen was one of the officers involved in the fatal shooting of Henry Green in 2015.  Rosen […]

A Georgia teen will have his right leg amputated on Wednesday after a teacher allegedly body-slammed him to the floor three times, causing nerve damage.

According to police, one of the officers fired several rounds into an alley, striking Tyree King. King was transported to Nationwide Children's Hospital and listed in critical condition, but did not survive.

The reality of frivolous lawsuits is that they rarely yield the desired results of the plaintiff, and a judge in Ohio found a clever way to dismiss one such case last week. Franklin County Judge David E. Cain wrote a legally-themed poem to dismiss a $2 million lawsuit filed by inmate Darek Lathan, who soiled his […]