CLEVELAND, Ohio-Famed pop singer Whitney Houston (pictured), the close cousin of music icon Dionne Warwick and ex wife of bad boy former New Edition singer Bobby Brown, died at 48. Her daughter with Brown, Bobbi Kristina Brown, 21, is clinging to life at an Atlanta hospital after Bobbi Kristina's purported husband of nearly a year, Nick Gordon, 30, and a friend, found her unresponsive and face down in a bathtub full of water at their Roswell Georgia home on January 31.

Brown and other family members are at Bobbi Kristina's bedside, praying for a miracle, and hoping that fate will swing in her favor.

Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news, remembers Whitney Houston today, February 11, the third year anniversary of her death.

(The Whitney Houston Story)

Whitney Houston was found dead by her entourage in the bathtub of the California Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on February 11, 2012.

The official coroner's report list the singer's death as "drowning and the effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use."

At the time of her death, the former superstar was in town for a pre Grammy Awards party at the Beverly Hilton thrown by record producer and music industry executive Clive Davis, her longtime mentor who discovered her talent, nurtured it, and molded her into a star. She was remembered during a special segment sung by Jennifer Hudson at the 2012 Grammy Awards.

Also an actress and producer who starred opposite Denzel Washington in the movie "The Preacher's Wife," opposite Kevin Cosner in the hit motion picture "The Body Guard," and opposite actresses Loretta Devine and Angela Bassett in the popular women's liberating film "Waiting To Exhale," Houston rose to fame in 1985 with the Grammy winning "Saving All My Love For You." The love song was among cuts on the multi-platinum album "Whitney Houston, which had a string of other billboard hits like "You Give Good Love" and "The Greatest Love of All," a remake of the George Benson hit.

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473.

Coleman is a community activist, educator and 21-year investigative journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years.

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Hillary Clinton (pictured) would win the swing states of Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio if the presidential election were held today, a new Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll reveals, and she would unilaterally beat each and every notable potential Republican candidate up against her, the poll also shows.

But if Ohio Gov John Kasich (pictured) were to run and win the Republican nomination for president, the former first lady, and former U.S. senator, who lost the 2008 Democratic primary to now President Barack Obama and went on to serve as secretary of state during the president's first term, could be in for a dead heat to win Ohio in her fight for the White House.

The survey sampled 936 Florida voters, 943 Ohio voters, and 881 Pennsylvania voters.

Released on Tuesday, the poll results reveal that in Ohio Kasich would get 43 percent of the vote compared to Clinton's 44 percent. Also, Clinton would easily win Ohio over any other Republican opponent, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie 47 to 34 percent, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush 47 to 36 percent, former congressman Ron Paul 49 to 34 percent, and social conservative Mike Huckabee 49 to 34 percent.

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who lost the presidential election to Obama in 2012 and announced that he is not interested this time around, would lose to Clinton too, the poll says.

The poll was conducted from January 22 to February 1 of would-be voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percent.

Kasich, however, is a relatively unknown nationally, the poll reflects, though he is a former U.S. representative. He is enjoying popularity in Ohio after trouncing then Democratic candidate Ed FitzGerald in last year's gubernatorial election to win a second four-year-term.

Ohio 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473.  Coleman is a community activist, educator and 21-year investigative journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years. (www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com)

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11) (picture) has announced her committee assignments for the 114th Congress.

The congresswoman of Ohio's 11th congressional district, which includes the largely Black city of Cleveland and neighboring suburbs of Cuyahoga County, and a largely Black section of the city of Akron and staggering parts of its Summit County suburbs, was assigned on Wednesday to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education.

The assignment was among other committee assignments, but one that Fudge has highlighted for immediate discussion.

“I welcome the challenge and the opportunity to ensure that all of America’s children have access to a quality education,” said Fudge, in a press release to Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news. “We must advance policies and priorities that provide adequate funding, and equitably allocate resources, and ensure that all students graduate from high school and are college and career ready.”

The federal lawmaker's announcement comes as education is gaining more attention in recent months with President Obama calling for free tuition for junior college, and amid growing concerns that Black children are still the subject of racial disparities in the nations publicschools, academically, and otherwise, particularly when it comes to expulsions, suspensions and school- related arrests.

America's Black public school students are three times more likely than their White counterparts to get expelled or suspended, a 2014 report from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights reveals.  And while Black students represent 16 percent of student enrollment in the public sector nationwide, they represent 27 percent of students referred to law enforcement, and 31 percent of students subjected to a school-related arrest, the reports says.

That same report, which examined public school districts across the country,  notes that Black students with disabilities (served by IDEA) represent 12 percent of the student population, but 58 percent of those placed in seclusion or involuntary confinement and 75 percent of those physically restrained at school to immobilize them or reduce their ability to move freely are Black.

From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news (www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com)

Bobbi Kristina Brown (pictured), the daughter of the late pop singer Whitney Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown, is likely not to recover from a medically induced coma that has her on life support and unresponsive, People Magazine reported yesterday.

According to the news report, it would be a miracle if the unresponsive 21-year-old Bobbi Kristina recovers.

The young woman, who friends says was still grieving the loss of her mother, was reportedly found face down in the bathtub by her husband Nick Gordon, 30, and a friend in their Roswell, Georgia, home on Saturday morning.

Gordon performed CPR before paramedics arrived  and  his young wife was ultimately transported by ambulance to North Fulton Hospital, an Atlanta area hospital.

She has not regained consciousness.

Brown released a statement through his lawyer saying nothing specifically on his daughter's condition, but calling for privacy.

"The report that Bobbi Kristina Brown has been taken to the hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, is accurate," said Brown. "Please allow for my family to deal with this matter and give my daughter the love and support she needs at this time."

Police are still investigating, sources said.