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DAVID MARCUS: Springfield residents plead for Trump and Vance to come see problems firsthand
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Every now and then in my line of work, you walk into an establishment and immediately think, I’m either gonna get great coverage here, or I’m going to get my ass kicked. This was my experience Saturday as I entered the Hop Bar in Springfield, Ohio, and the four guys shooting pool looked at me with an expression that at its most generous said, “What the hell are you doing here?”
In time, I explained to Eddie and Brandon and the rest what the hell I was actually doing there, trying to get the truth about the town’s migrant crisis, and as usual, given the opportunity to be heard by a news media that routinely ignores them, well, I got an earful.
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One thing I heard loud and clear, not just at the Hop but from many people I spoke with in Springfield is that they want Donald Trump and JD Vance to come and see exactly what is happening to their town.
“Vance himself came from a small town just like this one,” Brandon, who’s 38, married with three kids and cuts down trees for a living, told me. He wants the candidates to see, “the overwhelmed [Bureau of Motor Vehicles], the grocery stores, the traffic, what it’s doing to our small businesses and how all the American citizens are thinking about leaving.”
The Hop Bar, in Springfield, Ohio, began as a sock hop in the 1950s. Now, it is a community institution where lifelong friends gather.
The one-story shack with a large backyard was opened in 1951 as a sock hop, hence the name. In 1957, it acquired a liquor license and 67 years later, it boasts the profound aura of a community institution. Everyone I met there had lived in Springfield for their whole lives, and they had all known each other since childhood.
Earlier in the day, I had spoken with Peyton, who is studying theater at a local college. She graduated from Springfield High School last year, and I asked her when she started seeing a big influx of Haitian migrant students.
“Sophomore year there started to be a few and we were like, hey they speak French, that’s cool. Then junior year, it was more, and by senior year it was kind of overwhelming.”
Residents say their city has been overwhelmed, and they want Trump and Vance to see it firsthand.
Peyton explained that teachers struggled to translate lessons and that by the end of the senior year she was being bullied. “I don’t speak French, so I don’t know what they were saying, but they’d point at me and laugh.”
Peyton also wants the GOP ticket to come and hear from the people of Springfield, to listen to their stories and offer a ray of hope.
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According to patrons at the Hop I spoke to and others, Haitian migrants are renting houses not at a base rate, but per adult living there. As one guy put it, “they know if they rent it to one person, there’s just gonna be a ton of cots coming in.”
The upshot of this, of course, is that rents are way up, making it harder for this close-knit community to stay intact.
As the hot Midwestern sun of flat earth slowly hid behind the treeline, the backyard cooled, and we spoke of other things, like our kids and our hobbies. It became clear to me that this is the kind of community that most professional class urban dwellers really don’t understand.
The Hop is the place where these people’s grandparents had their first dance, where they went to Christmas parties as a kid. Could they all scatter and move to new places of better opportunity? Sure, but they could never replace nearly a century’s work of creating their home and community.
That legacy is what so many of the people of Springfield want Donald Trump and JD Vance to save and protect, and they have faith that if they come and see, not just the chaos caused by migrant disaster, but also the cherished home it is for so many Americans, that the candidates, should they win, will do just that.
I left with a much better understanding of what the people of Springfield are fighting for, and hey, I didn’t get my ass kicked.
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Dan Gilbert paid for an army of Cleveland Cavaliers fans to take over Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena for Game 2 of the NBA playoffs against the rival Detroit Pistons.
Gilbert, the longtime Cavs owner who has founded several Detroit-based companies and owns much of the real estate in downtown Detroit, sent seven bus loads of Cavs season ticket holders up I-75 North on Thursday, May 7, to wear maroon and gold shirts that read “BEAT DETROIT!”
Coworkers Rick Amador, 46, of Lorain, Ohio, and Eric Karr, 24, of Strongsville, Ohio, said they were thankful their trip to the playoffs in Detroit was fully paid for.
“Dan Gilbert fully paid for all of our tickets, paid for the shirts that you see here today,” Amador said. “He paid for the swag and he brought us here, fed us. We had a party at The Beacon [in Detroit, owned by Gilbert]. DJ, food, it was phenomenal.”
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Gilbert earned a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State and a law degree from Wayne State in downtown Detroit.
“I’m just ready to bring a dub home to Cleveland,” Karr said. “It’s been a long time coming. We got lucky with LeBron [James] always coming here and now it’s time for us to build our own future and win our own championship. All of them. Yes, Donovan [Mitchell] has to have his legacy game.”
The Pistons on Tuesday night won Game 1 of the best-of-seven series, 111-101, in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Games 3-4 will be in Cleveland on Saturday afternoon and Monday night.
As for a prediction for the rest of the series?
“Five games, Cavs win it,” Karr said without hesitation.
MILWAUKEE – A Milwaukee man is accused of shooting and killing a 32-year-old after a hit-and-run on the city’s north side in April.
In court:
Milwaukee County prosecutors charged 25-year-old Daniel Evans with first-degree reckless homicide and two counts of felony bail jumping. He’s being held in the Milwaukee County Jail on $100,000 cash bond.
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Court filings said Evans was out on bond for two different felony cases at the time of the shooting. He’d previously been convicted of misdemeanors in two other cases.
Milwaukee County prosecutors also charged 22-year-old Joshua Evans with harboring/aiding a felon in the case. He’s being held in jail on $15,000 cash bond.
Daniel Evans, Joshua Evans
20th and Burleigh
The backstory:
The shooting happened on April 23. The victim, who the medical examiner’s office identified as 32-year-old Terry Brown-Maben, died at the scene near 20th and Burleigh. A criminal complaint said police found nine bullet casings there.
What they’re saying:
A witness told detectives that he and Brown-Maben had just left a liquor store when an SUV rear-ended them at 20th and Hopkins, according to the complaint. He said the crash snapped his car’s axle, and he was upset but told the people in the SUV to “just pull over” because he did not want to make a big deal of it. At the same time as the witness was talking to a passenger in the SUV, he said Brown-Maben was talking to the driver.
Scene near 20th and Burleigh (April 23, 2026)
Court filings said the SUV drove away, and the witness and Brown-Maben began to walk because their car was left inoperable after the hit-and-run crash. A short time later, the witness said the SUV came back, and the passenger started to shoot at them.
The complaint said the witness told detectives that he took Brown-Maben’s gun and hid it after the shooting, adding he did not see Brown-Maben with the weapon before the shooting. The witness was also “adamant” that there had been no confrontation between them and the people in the SUV after the crash.
Shooting investigation
Dig deeper:
Court filings said detectives watched surveillance video that showed an SUV turn near 20th and Burleigh, after which there appeared to be a muzzle flash from the passenger side of the vehicle. Video from the liquor store and a nearby gas station showed the SUV with front-end damage, and showed Joshua Evans getting out of the driver’s door.
Detectives showed the witness photo lineups in an attempt to identify the driver and passenger in the SUV. Court filings said he identified Daniel Evans as the passenger and shooter, but he did not identify Joshua Evans as the driver.
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Police ran the SUV’s license plates, and determined Joshua Evans was the registered owner. When detectives interviewed him, he said he thought he might have been at work or “with a female” that night but identified himself and Daniel Evans in surveillance video from the liquor store.
Another person told police that she spoke to Daniel Evans. According to the complaint, that person said Daniel Evans told her “Josh” hit someone’s car and there was a “shoot out.” When police showed her pictures of the SUV from the liquor store surveillance, she said she “thought it was Josh’s.”
Five days after the homicide, police interviewed someone who was arrested on unrelated charges. Court filings said he told police he’d bought his gun from “the Evans brothers” for $200. Ballistics tests of that gun determined it matched the casings recovered at the homicide scene near 20th and Burleigh.
The Source: FOX6 News went to the shooting scene after it happened. Information in this story is from the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office, Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office and Wisconsin Circuit Court.
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