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Guilty pleas in one of nation's biggest mortgage scams Five people have pleaded guilty in one of the largest mortgage fraud cases in the country. WKSU's M.L. Schultze has more on the case involving 500 real estate deals and $50 million -- and stretching across two continents. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Parole Board against clemency for Warren manThe Ohio Parole Board has recommended against clemency for a Northeast Ohio man on death row. Ohio Public Radio's Jo Ingles reports. WKSU's Jo Ingles reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stark State names new presidentOhio's largest technical college has a new president. Stark State College named Para Jones the college's fourth president today (Wednesday).
Jones has been Spartanburg Community College in South Carolina since 2009. She was the first woman to lead the college. Before that, she spent more than two decades at Stark State.
Jones begins at Stark State February 6.Â
Irene Lewis Motts is Stark State's spokeswoman. She says Jones' was chosen from among 36 candidates for her connections to the area ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Voter's rights groups propose constitutional amendmentMore than two dozen groups are saying the map of Ohio's 16 Congressional districts denies voters real choices on Election Day. And they are pushing forward with a plan to do something about it. WKSU's Karen Kasler reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Five Ohio executives plead guilty in mortgage scamFive Ohio business executives have pleaded guilty in what Ohio's attorney general is calling the nation's largest mortgage fraud case. WKSU's Bill Cohen reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Portman: Cap income eligibility for entitlement programsOhio's Republican senator says he is willing to cut eligibility for entitlement programs for wealthy Americans.
Senator Rob Portman says he supports income caps on payroll tax cuts for the first $106,000 of income. WKSU's Valerie Brown and Anna Staver report.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teach for America could bring up to 100 teachers to Ohio by fallThis fall, as many as one hundred Teach for America members could be working in Ohio schools. Teach for America places recent college graduates, many from elite colleges, into high-poverty classrooms across America.
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Mike Wang leads Teach for America's efforts to expand into northeast Ohio. He says his focus now is on identifying school districts and charter schools in the Cleveland and Cincinnati areas that could hire Teacher for America's people. A $2 million grant from several Clevelan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Payroll tax fight divides Ohio RepublicansThe standoff over a payroll tax cut extension has divided Ohio Republicans.
Sen. Rob Portman voted for a Senate plan Saturday that extended the tax cuts and unemployment benefits for two months.
He says he still wants a one-year deal, but thinks a short-term plan may be the most viable option to keep taxes from going up January first.
Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown agrees. He says the House vote caught him off-guard. WKSU's Anna Staver reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Headline News 12/21/11Wednesday's headlines: WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kasich applauds growth in Cleveland's medical economyThe Cleveland area's reputation as a home of medical treatment and research has gotten another boost.
Two global bio-medical companies have announced expansion plans that could bring 200 more jobs to the Cleveland area.
The Steris Corporation says it will build a plant to manufacture medical devices at an existing distribution center in Mentor. It will also relocate a call center to the city.
Phillips Healthcare will consolidate its research and development branch for medical imaging to Hig ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The anti-tour guide to ClevelandWhether you're suddenly hot in Cleveland, or you've always felt Cleveland rocks, a new book aims to show you a few places you probably don't know about.  WKSU's Kabir Bhatia has more. WKSU's Kabir Bhatia reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Terry Pluto looks at why Mike Holmgren may have confronted criticsTeam president Mike Holmgren put-off some fans of the Cleveland Browns when he got angry at a news conference last week. But fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers have typically had the opposite response to occasional fieriness from Cav's owner Dan Gilbert. In a conversation with reporter Tim Rudell, Plain Dealer sports columnist and WKSU commentator Terry Pluto says the difference in reactions may be due to what made each of these "faces of the franchise" angry, and who they were angry with. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arboretum fire takes a million dollars in damageOne of the country's largest arboretums lost as much as a million dollars in property to a fire Monday night.
Ten departments responded to the fire at the Holden Arboretum east of Cleveland. The Kirtland Fire Department says putting out the blaze was challenging because water had to be brought in on tankers. The arboretum is not attached to a municipal water supply.
Arboretum spokesman Dave Desimone says the fire was contained to a single garage that housed maintenance equipment and seven v ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NCAA ups the penalties against Ohio StateOhio State will not be allowed to play for the Big Ten football championship next year. It won't be in a bowl game. And its football program lost four more scholarships and faces one more year of probation than it had hoped.
The NCAA handed down the additional penalties today.
They came almost exactly a year after word broke that Ohio State players had traded memorabilia for cash and tattoos, and seven months after long-time coach Jim Tressel was forced to resign. The sanctions go bey ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WeAreOhio: Where do we go from here?The campaign that helped repeal new limits on collective bargaining for public unions is now deciding where to go next. The group says it still has a valuable supply of cash and voter contacts. WKSU's Bill Cohen reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ohio racetrack slot machines could be open all nightGamblers would have the option of using Ohio's racetrack slot machines 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
That's under preliminary rules approved by the Ohio Lottery Commission yesterday (Monday).
Danielle Frizzi-Babb is a spokeswoman for the lottery commission. She says the changes do not mean all seven racetracks would suddenly be open around the clock. WKSU's Anna Staver reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ohio senators sponsor a bill to keep nuclear development goingOhio's two U.S. senators are introducing a bill to put $150 million in federal money into the uranium enrichment project in southern Ohio. A spending bill passed Saturday did not include the money for the Piketon plant.
Piketon was first used to enrich uranium during the Cold War. Its new process would help nuclear power plants produce electricity.
Both Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman have advocated the project. They met with Energy Secretary Steven Chu Saturday.
Portman says the pr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News Headlines 12/20/11 WKSU's Jeff St. Clair reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Northeast Ohio tremors raise concern, draw studyThe hunt is on for proof that injection wells associated with the shale gas drilling boom in Ohio are causing earthquakes. WKSU's Tim Rudell has more on what scientists are looking for, and what they're finding. WKSU's Tim Rudell reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Program helps poor Ohioans pay heating billsOhio will get more than $165 million to help low-income Ohioans pay home heating costs this winter. That's $8 million more than a U.S. House plan that would have reallocated some of the funds from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to states with warmer weather.
Janet Cesner of the Ohio Department of Development says the state is still receiving about 50 million dollars less than last year. And she says Ohio received some of last year's funding too late. WKSU's Maranda Shrewsbe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kasich: First year in office was a successGovernor John Kasich says he's taken many steps this year to turn Ohio around and improve the state's economy. And he says there's more work to be done. WKSU's Jo Ingles reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kasich to "re-align" Ohio's community collegesGovernor John Kasich says on his agenda for next year includes a plan to improve higher education. He wants community colleges to teach the job skills employers are most desperate for. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports. WKSU's Bill Cohen reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Southeast Ohio couple pleads guilty selling fake ticketsA southeast Ohio couple has pleaded guilty to scamming hundreds of people in 36 states into buying fake tickets to sporting events and concerts.
Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen interviews Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine about the case. WKSU's Bill Cohen reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Major construction on hold at Cleveland casino parking garageOfficials from the downtown Cleveland casino are meeting this afternoon (Monday) with Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigators at a parking deck that partially collapsed Friday.
They'll start the process of figuring out why a 60-by-60-foot section of the second floor collapsed while a construction crew was pouring concrete.
Howard Eberts is the area director for OSHA. Eberts and his team met with Rock Gaming on Saturday morning to take a first look at the garage. WKSU's A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News Headlines 12/19/11 WKSU's Jeff St. Clair reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exploradio - A new age for whiskeyEvery now and then an innovation comes along that dramatically changes an industry. Tom Lix thinks he has such an innovation for the whiskey industry. He's a Boston transplant who's using a new process that could put Cleveland on the map as whiskey producer.
In this week's Exploradio: A new age for whiskey. WKSU's Jeff St. Clair reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Highway Patrol focuses on stopping drivers under the influenceThe Ohio State Highway Patrol is cracking down on impaired drivers and says that effort is making the roads safer. Ohio Public Radio's Jo Ingles reports. WKSU's Jo Ingles reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teach for America aiming for OhioFour Northeast Ohio charities are donating more than two million dollars to bring Teach For America into area school districts likely by next fall. WKSU's Kabir Bhatia reports. WKSU's Kabir Bhatia and ANNA STAVER report.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website President and C.E.O. leaving Cuyahoga County's MetroHealth Medical SystemThe head of Cuyahoga County's public hospital will not renew his contract with the health care system. Metro-Health Medical Center President Mark Moran made the announcement today. Since Moran took over in 2008, the hospital has seen both success and some controversy.                           WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ohio juvenile courts criticized for shackling minorsSome advocates for children's rights are criticizing the practice of shackling minors in Ohio's juvenile courts. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports. WKSU's Bill Cohen reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ohio wins millions in federal education grantOhio has won a federal Race to the Top grant that will be used for early childhood education programs. In an interview with Ohio Public Radio's Jo Ingles, Patrick Galloway of the Ohio Department of Education explains how this money will be used. WKSU's Jo Ingles reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ohio jobless rate dropsOhio's official unemployment rate dropped noticeably last month. New figures peg the November jobless rate at 8.5 percent. That's down a half percent from October. Ben Johnson watches the ups and downs of the job market from his spot at the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. He tells statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen how the latest drop in the jobless rate stands out. WKSU's Bill Cohen reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Akron jazz great salutes his friends in "Remembering You"Joe Augustine, artist-in-residence at the University of Akron School of Music, has recorded 51 albums. Ever since graduating from Youngstown State University in 1971, Augustine has been a national recording artist, currently with Revere Records. And since 1995 he's been a "designated Steinway artist", a life-long honor he shares with legends like Irving Berlin and Duke Ellington. Augustine's  just-released compact disc, "Remembering You", pays tribute to supporters of the work he does with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website State worker union agrees to three-year contract extensionOhio's largest labor union that represents state employees has just given final approval to a three year contract extension. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports. WKSU's Bill Cohen reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ohio House approves consumer complaint planThe Ohio House of Representatives has approved a plan for a new way to resolve consumer complaints against businesses accused of rip-offs. Business advocates say it's a streamlining of the current system, and it could benefit companies and customers alike. But consumer advocates charge the proposal would make Ohio's consumer protection law one of the weakest in the nation. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports on the debate on the House floor. WKSU's Bill Cohen reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Democrats want redistricting investigatedSome Ohio Democrats are asking the state's legislative inspector general to take a look at the way the congressional and legislative redistricting process was handled. Ohio Public Radio's Jo Ingles reports. WKSU's Jo Ingles reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ohio grants $2 million for state foodbanksOhio Governor John Kasich has signed an executive order that would provide more than $6 million in federal funds for needy families to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. Kasich's spokesman, Rob Nichols, says a third of that money will go to the state's foodbanks. WKSU's Jo Ingles reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brown, Portman optimistic on payroll tax cut compromiseOhio's two Senators say they are hopeful Congress can compromise on extending the payroll tax in the coming days. Without a compromise, many families would get a sudden tax increase on Jan. 1st. Democrats appear to be backing off a plan that the tax cut be paid for by raising taxes on Americans earning more than $1 million a year. Republican Senator Rob Portman says the cut can be funded by extending the current federal worker pay freeze and requiring federal workers to contribute more to t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website GM Lordstown plan remains shut downGeneral Motors' Lordstown plant will remain shut down until at least Friday morning. The plant that makes the compact Chevy Cruze halted production Monday due to a problem with a supplier. GM has not identified the supplier or the parts involved in the shutdown. Spokesman Tom Mock says testing will continue. WKSU's Maranda Shrewsberry reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cleveland is finding creative uses for vacant lots, including an educational tool for kidsAcross the street from Cleveland's Buhrer Elementary School is a small vacant lot where a house once stood. In the spring, that lot will be a garden for the students. The school garden is one of 66 "Re-Imagining Cleveland" projects. It's a federally funded effort to find creative ways to reuse the city's many vacant properties. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier went to Buhrer Elementary to see how the future garden is progressing.
 WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cleveland pastor sentenced to 15 months in prisonA Cleveland civil rights activist and pastor was sentenced to 15 months in prison Wednesday on tax evasion charges. WKSU's Kabir Bhatia has more. WKSU's Kabir Bhatia and GRANT ENGLE report.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sports and busing may return to Cleveland school districtPreschool, busing and athletics could be continued next spring if the Cleveland board of Education approves a new contract with teachers. Right now, all three programs are slated for elimination.
But Schools CEO Eric Gordon says the board should fund them with half of the $8.1-million the new contract will save. WKSU's Anna Staver reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ohio Senate stops debate on abortion lawThe Ohio Senate has put an indefinite hold on debate over a controversial law that would ban abortion at the point a fetal heartbeat can be detected.  Ohio Public Radio's Jo Ingles has more on the story. WKSU's Jo Ingles reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Judge urges Ohio lawmakers to repeal death penaltyThere was unusual and emotional testimony today (Wednesday), calling on Ohio to wipe out its death penalty. The setting was a hearing of the Ohio House Criminal Justice Committee, as lawmakers considered a bill repealing capital punishment. As statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports, the lead-off witness was an Ohio Supreme Court justice who's changed his stance on the life-and-death issue: WKSU's Bill Cohen reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Future remains unclear for many Northeast Ohio post officesOhio's Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown says Congress and the U.S. Postal Service must work together to cut costs and avoid massive layoffs next year. The agency announced Tuesday it's delaying the closure of many of its post offices, including processing centers in Akron, Canton, Youngstown and Steubenville. The centers that were set to close early next year will remain open until at least May. Supporters of the moratorium argued that closures would result in thousands of job losses and disr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News headlines 12/14/11 WKSU's Jeff St. Clair reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Holiday tree hunt The Norman Rockwell version of finding a Christmas tree involves trekking out into the woods through deep snow to discover the perfect evergreen, cutting it down and dragging it home for the holidays. Cleveland Metroparks is offering you a chance to do your own tree hunting -- as long as you leave the saw at home.    WKSU's Mark Urycki reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kasich: Exchange is good, but we need to understand the implicationsQuestions remain about what Ohio is doing to prepare if the federal health insurance law takes effect as scheduled in 2014.
By the end of next year, each state has to set up a health insurance exchange where people can shop for insurance, or the federal government will set up the exchanges. Republican Gov. John Kasich is no fan of the law, but has said the state should go ahead and set up an exchange. WKSU's Karen Kasler reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Homeless kids in OhioNew numbers say the number of children who were homeless in Ohio grew by nearly 50 percent over the last five years. U.S. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports that the newest study released today shows Ohio ranks in the middle WKSU's M.L. Schultze and VALERIE BROWN report.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | |