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How would you react if you believed your child's school wasn't acting urgently in response to a student bringing a knife on the school bus? More than once? Marisa Darden is making history in Ohio. And "The Price Is Right" is bringing a special tour to the West Side Market next week.

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Angry Parents Decry Charter School Response To Child's Knife Threats

Parents at Menlo Park Academy, a Cleveland charter school for gifted children, claim a student has repeatedly brought a knife to school and threatened classmates with little repercussion, reports Cleveland 19 News.

• “This wasn’t just a Boy Scout knife or a little Swiss army knife. I mean, this was a tactical throwing knife designed as a weapon,” attorney Ziad Tayeh told 19 Investigates. Tayeh represents the angry parents. “These children were not physically injured, but mentally — as a 7- and 8-year-old child — having a deadly weapon pulled out on you and threatened is a very, very serious injury.”
• Photos purportedly show the child stabbing the back of a bus seat with his knife.
• After learning the child had a knife, the school did not issue an emergency communication or initiate a lockdown. The school said proper policies were followed, however, even though the child returned to school the next day with the knife.

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Northeast Ohio's New U.S. Attorney Makes History

The first Black woman ever appointed as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday. Marisa Darden, formerly assistant U.S. attorney from 2014 to 2019, currently works in the Squire Patton Boggs law office in Cleveland.

• Darden, 38, was an assistant district attorney in Manhattan, New York. She is an adjunct faculty member, teaching criminal law at Case Western Reserve School of Law. She grew up in Sandusky.
• “Hopefully, she’ll get in and do the right thing and address the violence in the community and enforce police reform,” Samaria Rice, the mother of Tamir Rice, told cleveland.com. Tamir, 12, was shot to death by Cleveland police. His killing drew national attention.
• Darden's father, Thom, is also famous. He was a safety for the Cleveland Browns.

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'The Price Is Right" In Cleveland

Television's longest-running game show, "The Price Is Right," will celebrate its 50th year in Cleveland, hometown of host Drew Carey.

• The "Come on Down Tour" comes to town May 6, from noon to 4 p.m., at the West Side Market.
• If you go, you may get the chance at photo-ops, a game of Plinko, and competition in a locally-themed showcase showdown for a chance to win $50,000.
• Drew Carey, who grew up in Old Brooklyn and graduated from James Ford Rhodes High School in 1975, has hosted the show since 2007.

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