cleveland.com joins ProPublica's 'Documenting Hate' projects and other top stories.

• cleveland.com joins ProPublica's 'Documenting Hate' projects

  

  CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland.com is joining other newsrooms in a nationwide effort to accurately report on hate crimes in a massive project led by the non-profit investigative news organization ProPublica.  There is currently no reputable or reliable database that tracks hate-crime incidents. Propublica, the winner of multiple Pultizer Prizes, is asking for the public's help in counting any and all incidents of hate crimes in communities across the country in a project called Documenting Hate. ..

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• Fatally shot Cleveland man dumped out of car on city's East Side ...

  

  CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Cleveland man fatally shot on Tuesday was driven to an East Side neighborhood and dumped out of a car, police say. The victim was identified as 28-year-old Karl Hackney, according to the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office. He was dumped around 3 p.m. in the 12300 block of Crennell Avenue near East 123rd Street in the Corlett neighborhood, Cleveland police Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia said. Residents called police after they saw three people in a car drop off Hackney and dri..

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• Attracting international population propels downtown Cleveland

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• Cleveland companies use downtown locations as recruiting tool

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• Instagram chooses Cleveland as one of five global cities for ...

  

  CLEVELAND, Ohio - Local artists Joe Lanzilotta and Erin Guido will be out with their brushes Thursday painting a pair of giant "love doves" on the West Shoreway retaining wall at West 25th Street as part of Instagram's #kindcomments campaign in honor of LGBT Pride Month. Cleveland is one of five global cities chosen by Instagram for the mural project. The others are London, Madrid, Los Angeles and Nashville. Inspired by Creative Fusion The 2016 Creative Fusion mural project in Ohio City caught ..

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• Cavaliers and Warriors fans face off in new study

  

  CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Golden State Warriors have won the first battle of this year's NBA Finals. Well, sort of. A new study from financial website WalletHub ranks the "Best and Worst Cities for Basketball Fans." Cleveland finished No. 7 out of more than 250 cities. However, that wasn't enough to top basketball fans in Oakland, which finished No. 3 overall, behind Los Angeles and Boston. The ratings took into account NBA and college basketball fans. But where Oakland really won out was nabbing t..

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• Cleveland Indians homer in 15th consecutive game, most since 2007

  

  The Athletics got out to a 3-0 lead last night, but that was not a large enough margin for Sonny Gray, who then allowed 7 unanswered runs. Home runs by Jason ...

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• Get 'A Kosher Taste of Cleveland' with Shaarey Tikvah

  

  Congregation Shaarey Tikvah will hold the 12th annual “A Kosher Taste of Cleveland” event at 6 p.m. June 11 at the synagogue in Beachwood. The event will centered around the theme of “summer breeze,” and will feature cuisine from seven different chefs and restaurants. Restaurants include: Greedy Girl Ethnic Street Food in Cleveland Heights, Bodega Restaurant and Lounge in Cleveland, Raving Med in Cleveland, The Cabin of Willowick in Willowick, Blue Star Cafe and Market in Woodmere and John Sel..

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• Ten things to do in Cleveland through June 7

  

  Photo by Rebecca Sapp/WireImage for The Recording Academy Melissa Etheridge performs Wednesday, June 7, at Severance Hall with the Contemporary Youth Orchestra. SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT 'Red Ash Mosaic' is at Cleveland Public Theatre through June 17. Take part in what Cleveland Public Theatre calls "an experiment in theatrical form" at "Red Ash Mosaic," featuring "interwoven and contradictory narrative threads, powerful physical action, chanting and..

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• AU grad launches Cleveland mayoral campaign

  

  CLEVELAND – As a youngster, Tony Madalone loved playing basketball. After captaining the Elyria Open Door Christian Schools basketball team to the Division IV state final four his senior year, Madalone wanted to continue his basketball career as long as he could. That passion for basketball drove the Lorain native to walk-on at Division II Ashland University, where he eventually worked his way to a scholarship.Now, Madalone’s passion for his adopted home of Cleveland has inspired the entreprene..

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