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President Barack Obama met with 18 city mayors to discuss ways to contain youth violence, quietly reviving an issue that once dominated the White House agenda. The meeting was closed to reporters and none of the mayors discussed the session when they emerged from the White House. …

Authorities say the Cincinnati-area man who was badly beaten by six teens almost a year ago in a Cincinnati suburb has died. Pat Mahaney, 46, died yesterday in the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, said Julie Wilson, spokeswoman for the Hamilton County prosecutor’s office. The six teens, all 13 or 14, injured Mahaney in August and told police they did it because they were bored and looking for something to do. Wilson said Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters has asked the coroner for an autopsy. Three of the youths have pleaded guilty to felonious assault. Wilson would not elaborate on...

Police search for group of teens who viciously beat a 73-year-old man in Ohio

Clay and his buddy Matt used to shoot the puck around the ice as members of their high school’s hockey team. Come springtime, they’d shoulder their clubs and wander out to the golf course where they’d tee-up and shoot for a hole in one.Clay and Matt had a lot in common and liked to hang out together, even planning to double-date for their senior homecoming dance at Concordia Academy, a private Lutheran school in Roseville. These guys were buddies. And neighbors, friends, family, classmates – even those who only met them once or twice – called them good kids who...

DREW STEWART died defending a pregnant friend from a group of thugs in a restaurant where he was playing pool, his grieving mom said yesterday. "He would defend anybody," said Cheryl Stewart, wiping tears from her swollen eyes. "That's why he had so many friends, because he would do anything for them. He was my hero and my best friend." The 16-year-old was pronounced dead at St. Michael's hospital after being stabbed outside a Coxwell Ave. restaurant, south of O'Connor Dr., around 1:30 p.m. Friday. Moments after her only child was taken away in an ambulance, Stewart got the phone...