“That’s $540,000 freed up that could go into the classroom.”


“That’s $540,000 freed up that could go into the classroom.”

James Reinhard, Youngstown City Schools treasurer. The city school district is considering selling its West Wood Street administration building and moving those offices to school buildings to cut costs. Reinhard estimates that about $540,000 annually could be saved without the building, by cutting six maintenance positions through attrition, reduced utilities and contracted maintenance. That doesn’t include whatever the district may be able to get for the building in a sale.

“Implementing voter ID would prevent tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians from exercising their right to vote, including elderly Pennsylvanians who’ve fought in our wars and worked to make our country safe. Voter ID is crumbling under the weight of its own faulty premises and misguided reasoning.”

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa. Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Bernard L. McGinley has thrown out key provisions of a voter identification law that had required nearly all Pennsylvania voters to show a certain form of photo identification before they can cast a ballot.

“She thought the devil was in the kids, and that’s sort of the thing she centered it around as to why she had to conduct an exorcism. She just thought that there were evil spirits within the kids.”

Police Capt. Marcus Jones, after a woman in Germantown, Md., was charged with the stabbing deaths of two of her children, age 1 and 2.