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Stuart Warner

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Stuart was a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor during 39 years with Knight-Ridder papers and The Plain Dealer.

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Man Dies on Christmas Eve After Crash at Nativity

posted: 3 days 9 hours ago

(Dec. 24) – An Ohio man died on Christmas Eve morning from injuries suffered after he was struck by a pickup truck Wednesday night while he and friends were photographing a live Nativity scene. ...

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Illinois High School Defends Spiking of Report on Wayward Honor Students

posted: 37 days 10 hours ago

(Nov. 20) - For the second time this year, school administrators have rebuked the award-winning student newspaper at a suburban Chicago high school named for free-speech champion, one-time journalist ...

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Did We Domesticate Dogs, or Did Dogs Domesticate Us?

posted: 51 days 8 hours ago

(Nov. 6) -- A new book by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Jon Franklin concludes that man's best friends may have been responsible for our emergence as the alpha dogs of the animal ...

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Near House of Horrors, Families Await Word

posted: 51 days 17 hours ago

CLEVELAND (Nov. 6) -- Eleven black women went into Anthony Sowell's house of horrors and came out in body bags. Or as body parts. Eleven black women who were mothers and sisters, grandmothers and dau ...

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Cleveland Police Find 4 More Bodies at Suspect's Home

posted: 54 days 8 hours ago

CLEVELAND -- Police said they found the remains of four more bodies plus a human skull Tuesday at the Cleveland home of suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell. Sowell, a convicted rapist, was charged ...

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Northeast Ohio's History of Killers

posted: 54 days 9 hours ago

CLEVELAND -- The discovery of at least 10 decomposing bodies at a home on the east side of Cleveland adds another chapter in a long history of serial killers and mass murderers with their roots in th ...

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Glossary: The Code of the Street

posted: 60 days 15 hours ago

Terms from Yale sociologist Elijah Anderson's book, "Code of the Street," that he says residents of poor urban areas use to describe themselves. ALSO SEE: The Code Fueling Chicago's Youth Violence C ...

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The Code Fueling Chicago's Youth Violence

posted: 60 days 16 hours ago

Elijah Anderson didn't need to watch the video of the beating death of 16-year-old honor student Derrion Albert or read about any other outbreak of violence among Chicago's youth in the past month to ...

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