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City in and county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States
and memorial projects report the last documented lynching occurred in 1911, most specifically on June 27, 1911 and is associated with . That statement sits within a complex and contested archival reco...
Federal and state grand juries after the May 4, 1970 Kent State shootings produced indictments of both students and National Guardsmen: a Portage County grand jury indicted 25 people (mostly students)...
Mehmet Oz is a Turkish American born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Turkish immigrants Mustafa and Suna Öz, and his background combines ; he grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, and trained in medicine an...
The analyses consistently identify , reported at 4.7 sexual crimes per 1,000 people, with following closely in published region-level figures . National survey releases from the Office for National St...
Drinking only tap water can save money, reduce plastic waste, and reliably supply minerals like calcium and magnesium that support teeth and bones; many public-health and consumer outlets say tap wate...
The available 2025 reporting shows compared with the same period in 2024, while nationally the U.S. homicide rate remains higher than many other developed countries when measured per 100,000 people . ...
The immediate, measurable economic toll of the unrest following murder is commonly reported as between $1 billion and $2 billion in insured property losses, a record for civil disorder events accordin...
have been imposed on or negotiated with multiple police agencies in the post‑2014 era — prominent examples include (consent decree filed November 2014), (entered 2016), and cities whose reform process...
The 2025 federal civilian pay increase averaged 2.0% (1.7% across‑the‑board plus about 0.3% in locality adjustments), with actual raises by locality ranging roughly 1.88% to 2.35% (Office of Personnel...
Available sources agree that U.S. city homicide rankings vary by dataset and year, but repeatedly name St. Louis, Jackson (MS), Baltimore, New Orleans, Memphis, Detroit and Cleveland among cities with...
Crime rates in many U.S. cities fell in 2025 relative to 2024, with national and mid‑year reports pointing to ; however, experts and agencies disagree sharply about the causes, and the evidence does n...
Multiple analyses in the provided materials conclude that a substantial list of U.S. cities reported , but the exact list varies sharply across sources. The Newsweek-derived list identifies 22 cities ...
The most commonly cited "" in is June 27, 1911 — a mob killing in documented by the and repeated across multiple fact-checks and reporting . Scholarly work complicates that simple endpoint by identify...
In 2025 the GS base pay received a 1.7% across‑the‑board increase and locality payments added an average of about 0.3%, producing an overall average raise of roughly 2% for most General Schedule emplo...
The claim asks which Ohio counties delivered the highest shares of Democratic presidential votes in 2020 and again in 2024; available reporting and compiled 2020 data show , with other large urban cou...
Cities led by Democratic mayors account for many of the largest reported declines in violent crime since 2020, but the pattern is driven by specific local programs, funding changes, and broader trends...
Multiple source summaries drawn from the provided analyses disagree on a clean "top five" list for the most violent U.S. cities in 2025, but two distinct clusters emerge: one anchored in FBI 2024-deri...
The Lynching Victims Memorial, hosted by , collects names, life-stories and the dates and places of lynchings to acknowledge and memorialize victims of ; it launched online in December 2011 and remain...
Authorities found 21-year-old Demartravion “Trey” Reed hanging from a tree on Delta State University’s Cleveland, Mississippi, campus in mid-September 2025; local officials and the coroner said early ...
The strongest contemporary evidence available in the provided materials shows , reported at 77.8 homicides per 100,000 residents in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports, a finding repeated in contemporaneo...