Tressel to outline plans at ‘NextYSU’

Tressel to outline plans at ‘NextYSU’

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown State University President Jim Tressel will outline some planned and ongoing campus improvement projects this morning.

“NextYSU: A New Look for a New Era,” begins at 9 a.m. in the Chestnut Room of Kilcawley Center on campus.

Some of those improvements are the University Edge apartments set to open this fall, upgrades to Lincoln and Wick avenues and long-term plans for more development along Fifth Avenue.

Yavorcik seeks delay

CLEVELAND

Youngstown attorney Martin Yavorcik is asking a judge to delay his sentencing on eight public-corruption charges.

The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, 21 WFMJ-TV, reports the 42-year-old former candidate for Mahoning County prosecutor filed a motion asking Judge Janet Burnside of Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court to continue Friday’s scheduled sentencing hearing to a later, unspecified date.

Yavorcik told the judge a court-approved treatment facility needs more time to complete an alcohol assessment of him, which Yavorcik says will be an important factor for the judge to consider before passing sentence.

The motion also says Yavorcik needs time to raise $10,000 to pay for the trial transcripts as well as additional funds to pay an attorney he says will represent him during his appeal.

Yavorcik acted as his own attorney in the trial last month that resulted in a conviction on one count of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, one count of conspiracy, three counts of bribery, one count of tampering with records and two counts of money laundering.

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