Posted by Archie Parsons on July 26, 2011
Faced with the reality that Niles- Trumbull Transit, a countywide transportation service, will shut down at year’s end, Trumbull County commissioners took steps Wednesday to replace the service.
Commissioners authorized creation of a county transit board and took steps to ask voters in November to approve a 0.5-mill, $1.7 million per-year, five-year countywide levy to fund a new service.
The levy would cost the owner of a $100,000 home $17.50 per year, said Adrian Biviano, Trumbull County auditor.
Commissioners are expected to pass another resolution by Aug. 10 and submit it to the Trumbull County Board of Elections for the measure to go on the Nov. 8
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Posted by Rose Giorza on July 25, 2011
Barry H. Landau, the well-known collector of presidential memorabilia, was indicted by a federal grand jury today. He had been charged by the state with stealing documents from the Maryland Historical Society. Now, charges include thefts of important documents from several other archives:
* Writings of President Roosevelt and his treasury secretary from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, N.Y.
* A letter dated April 1, 1780, from Benjamin Franklin and John Paul Jones, from the New York Historical Society.
* Sixty docuemtns from the F.
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Posted by Rose Giorza on July 25, 2011
CLEVELAND — A 16-year-old suspect was arrested after a 14-year-old and a 3-year-old were shot and injured at the Outwaite Estates Thursday afternoon following a playground scuffle.
The suspected shooter got into a fight with the teenage boy about 3 p.m. at the estate’s playground near the 2500 block of East 49th Street, according to a news release from the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority.
Police said he then shot the 14-year-old in the left foot and the toddler in the right buttock. They were taken by EMS to MetroHealth Medical Center. The suspect fled. He was arrested about three hours after the shooting.
CMHA police are still investigating. Anyone with information is asked to call Sgt.
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Posted by Rose Giorza on July 25, 2011
As Jessica Keane drove down Sylvan Avenue to pick up her son on Monday afternoon at Creative Frontiers school, she saw a scene that made her heart race: black and white police cruisers blocked the school’s entrance. Plainclothes officers milled outside. No children were in sight.
Inside, Marnel Sexton and other teachers had rounded up their students, locked the doors and tried to keep kids calm and busy.
The city of Citrus Heights and the state Department of Social Services were shutting down the school, and principal Robert Adams was being accused of molesting students. No charges have been filed against him or anyone else.
Sexton, in disbelief, wondered whether authorities had made a huge mistake.
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Posted by Rose Giorza on July 25, 2011
New York Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is scheduled to appear next in court on August 23, after the latest postponement of a status hearing, his attorneys and prosecutors said Tuesday.
The hearing in the Strauss-Kahn sexual assault case was pushed back from August 1.
“We have consented to a postponement of the status hearing,” his attorneys, William Taylor and Benjamin Brafman, said in a written statement. “We understand the district attorney is continuing to investigate.
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