“My house smells like a funeral parlor. ... all those flowers. Even my cat is upset.”

“My house smells like a funeral parlor. ... all those flowers. Even my cat is upset.”

Judy Landy-Pearce, 69, is retiring after 32 years of teaching in the Austintown school district. Faculty and staff gathered to bid farewell to the second-grade teacher before her last day of class Dec. 22.

“In its present form, Medicare will be insolvent before my grandkids get there. Primary-care doctors, the ones who listen to you, they’re underpaid. But specialists get paid way over what they’re worth.”

Fred Wemer, 73, a retired dentist from Seattle.

“That knife is a silent witness to at least 3,000 killings, ordered or executed, by this Colombian criminal who has finally fallen.”

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, referring to Pedro Oliverio Guerrero, also known as “The Knife,” who died during clashes with security forces in southern Colombia.