“It’s what my kids really need. When the students get a book they can read, it’s

“It’s what my kids really need. When the students get a book they can read, it’s like, ‘hallelujah.’”

Kari Knight, Austintown Middle School teacher. District educators were delighted to get supplies for their classroom from the Help a Teacher Teach organization. The Youngstown-based organization, with the support of donations, offers full-time teachers of Mahoning County students in kindergarten through 12th grade the opportunity to apply for free classroom supplies each month.

“I have been treated well. But I need the help of the United States government to answer the requests of the group that has held me for three and a half years. And please help me get home.”

Retired FBI Agent Robert Levinson, 63, who vanished in Iran and has reappeared in a 54-second video and a series of photographs, transforming a mysterious disappearance into a hostage standoff with an unknown kidnapper, the Associated Press reported Friday.