By Kathy Wray Coleman,  Editor-in-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473(www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com)

CLEVELAND, Ohio- Ann R. Romans (pictured), 84, of Marietta, Georgia and a native of Cleveland, Ohio passed away on Sunday, March 30, 2014. Funeral services will be held  on Friday, April 11 at the Church of the Covenant Presbyterian Church at 11205 Euclid Ave in Cleveland with a wake at 1 pm and funeral services at 2 pm. CLICK THIS LINK HERE TO GO TO E F BOYD FUNERAL HOME ONLINE

Services are entrusted to E.F. Boyd & Son Funeral Home in Cleveland.

Mrs. Romans moved to Marietta seven years ago to be with her daughter, son-in-law, and three of her six grandchildren. She retired as a school teacher with the Cleveland Public School System. She earned a master's of education from John Carroll University in University Heights at the age of 67, and was a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.

Mrs Romans was a member of the grassroots community activists groups G-PAC and the Carl Stokes Brigade and she loved politics and was active with the 11th Congressional District Caucus under then Congressman Louis Stokes, who has since retired, and under the late Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who succeeded Stokes. She was also a Cleveland area community activist who fought against alleged housing discrimination in Shaker Heights, Ohio and against the mistreatment of Blacks students, teachers and administrators in Cleveland schools in the 1990s. She rode a motorcycle even in recent years at the annual 11th Congressional District Caucus Annual Parade, an event initiated by Stokes and also sponsored by Tubbs Jones and current Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus of Blacks in Congress , and a Warrensville Heights Democrat whose majority Black congressional district includes the largely Black cities of Cleveland, East Cleveland and Warrensville Heights.

Pictured are Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter Karl Kimbrough and Miami Heat Forward LeBron James

By Karl Kimbrough, Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter

CLEVELAND, Ohio-When asked if he heard the boos during his latest return to Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena for a bout between the Cavaliers and the Miami Heat, Miami Heat forward LeBron James, once the prince of the Cavaliers, said that “ yes its a mixture, I hear them both."

James said that "nothing can ever get as worse as the first time I came back and its just been different every time since we played here December 2, 2010.”

In this game though James had his shot going from the tip of the ball in the first quarter as he scored 25 points. Remarkably, seven of those points came in the last minute of the quarter. It appeared that he turned the “Q” arena into his own personal playground, making eight of the nine shots he took. The final score would be close, a 100 to 96 Cavalier loss. At times it seemed as though James was toying with his former team because he made it look so easy.

James said that “its just one of those zones, and its one of those great feelings."

The worst part, said James,  is that I missed four free throws.

"I was one for five from the free throw line ( in the first quarter) and I was hoping it didn't take me out of my rhythm," he said.

Pictured are U.S. Rep. Marcia L. Fudge, also chairperson of the Congressional Black Caucus of Blacks in Congress, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez (in eye glasses) and MetroHealth Hospital President Akam Boutros

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CLEVELAND, Ohio -March 31 is the deadline to enroll for Obamacare's healthcare insurance (The Affordable Care Act) under its individual mandate, with an extended another two weeks to people that opted to enroll but got caught up via Obamacare website discrepancies or other snags. And Blacks in Congress such as Reps Charlie Rangel of New York,  Alcee Hastings of Florida and Barbara Lee of California, led by Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Rep. Marcia Fudge ( D-11), a Warrenville Heights Democrat whose largely Black 11th congressional district includes the majority Black Ohio cities of Cleveland, East Cleveland, and Warrensville Heights and a largely Black pocket of Akron, are using social media websites like Twitter to urge their constituents to sign up by Monday's deadline. The next round of sign-ups is not until October.

Fudge, who entertained U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez in Cleveland last week at an event with doctors and MetroHealth Hospital CEO Dr. Akram Boutros in support of Obamacare, herself is using social media through Facebook to urge her constituents to enroll before the first deadline. The lawmaker told Cleveland Urban News.Com in a press release on the visit by Perez to Cleveland last week that she supports Obamacare.

More than 5 million Americans and counting, have already signed up for health coverage through state and federal marketplaces. The congresswoman also entertained last week in Cleveland as part of the pro Obamcaree campaign:

Do you know someone who needs to get covered? The deadline to obtain coverage for 2014 is March 31st.

Please share these resources:
Enroll directly on www.healthcare.gov

Get information or enroll by phone: 1-800-318-2596

In Cuyahoga County, residents can dial 2-1-1

The MetroHealth System also has an RV enrollment van staffed by certified application counselors that will be available at various locations in the 11th district in the coming week. For more info on the RV, go to: http://www.metrohealth.org/enrollment-unit

Counselors are available at MetroHealth Hospital:
Hours - 8am-5pm, M-F
Number: 216-957-2325
Website: http://www.metrohealth.org/financial-assistance

In addition, Healthcare.gov has a locator tool to find local resources that can help you with the application process,https://localhelp.healthcare.gov/

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief

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CINCINNATI, Ohio-A three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on Friday upheld the 2012 prison sentences of four young White men that were active in the now defunct Occupy Cleveland movement who pleaded guilty to plotting to bomb Route 82 bridge in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Sagamore Hills between Cleveland and Akron, Ohio with dummy explosives provided by an FBI Informant Shaquille Azir.

Akron is a city some 35 miles south of Cleveland.

Federal District Court Judge David Dowd sentenced Brandon Baxter, then 21, of Lakewood, Oh., to 9 years and 9 months in prison, Connor Stephens, 21 at the time, of Berea, Oh., to an 8 year prison sentence, and gave Anthony Hayne of Cleveland, then 35, who cooperated  with federal prosecutors, six years.

Ring Leader Douglas White, then 27, and of Indianapolis, Indiana, was handed a sentence of 11 and 1/2 years.

Fifth suspect Joshua Safford, 25, of Cleveland, is undergoing psychiatric analysis and his case is still pending.

The defendants also argued on appeal, through their attorneys,  that they were set up and that the bomb plot was not terrorism. The appeals court panel disagreed.

"A defendant has the requisite intent if he or she acted with the purpose of influencing or affecting government conduct and planned his or her actions with this objective in mind," the 21-page opinion reads in part.