Matthew Richmond

Jessica Watkins, a central Ohioan who participated in the January 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol, will remain in jail until her trial. The Washington, D.C. federal district court judge’s decision to hold Watkins, despite the pretrial release of other alleged participants in the riot, focused on her leadership role in an antigovernment militia.

The Cleveland Division of Police’s (CDP) use of force reporting and community engagement before and during the May 30 social justice protest in Downtown Cleveland are under scrutiny by the federal monitor overseeing the city’s police reform efforts. In a review of 29 officers’ use of force reports from May 30, the monitor found officers didn’t record the quantity of non-lethal munitions that were fired, making it hard to evaluate whether excessive force was used.

Since the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol Building, extreme groups and militias across the United States – and how to respond to them – are getting increased attention.

Anthony Sowell, who was convicted in 2011 of killing 11 women in Cleveland, died Monday in an Ohio prison medical facility. A prison spokeswoman said the 61-year-old was admitted Jan. 21 with a terminal illness after spending close to 10 years on death row. She provided no details on his illness, other than that it was not COVID-19 related.

The president of the Cleveland Warriors, the local amateur football team made up of police and corrections officers and first responders, appears to have resigned. That’s what team president and coach, Bill Sofranko, texted Randy Knight, an ex-player protesting the team’s inclusion of Timothy Loehmann, the former Cleveland police officer who killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014.

The Cleveland Warriors, an amateur football team in Northeast Ohio made up of police officers, prison guards and first responders, had some unwanted…

In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol, the FBI arrested two central Ohio residents. Court documents describe Jessica Watkins and Donovan Crowl, both from Champaign County, as members of a militia group called the Oath Keepers. ideastream's Matt Richmond explained what makes the group unique.

Does carrying a gun make a teacher a security officer, or just a teacher who happens to be carrying a gun? Ohio Supreme Court justices on Tuesday focused…

"Arm The Populace" founder and lead firearms trainer Douglas Cooper is a gun guy.His photo on the company’s website is of a burly man with a shaved head,…

It’s a happy day for sports fans in Cleveland. With a 24-22 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday, the Browns punched their ticket to the NFL playoffs for the first time since 2002. Long-suffering fans now have at least a week to savor the moment. “We finally made it back to the playoffs,” said Vanessa Clever, a lifelong Browns fan who’s thrilled after Sunday’s victory. “That’s No. 1 for us. We just want to go all the way.”