Some of Today's State News Headlines
Today is Friday March 21, 2008
School board member charged, accused of slapping colleague
BROOKFIELD (AP) - A school board president accused of slapping a colleague during a closed-door meeting has been criminally charged.
Trumbull County Assistant Prosecutor Sean O'Brien says he filed a misdemeanor assault charge Thursday against Joseph Pasquerilla in northeast Ohio's Brookfield school district.
Police reports say a board member called Pasquerilla a dictator during a meeting about how to fill an open board seat. Board member Ronald Brennan says Pasquerilla bumped chests with him and hit him. Pasquerilla says Brennan stood first and hit him in the chest.
Two other board members present declined to give statements to police.
Pasquerilla is due in court April 3. If convicted, he could face up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. He declined to comment to The (Warren) Tribune Chronicle.
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Malone College pulls student paper for nude photos
CANTON (AP) - A Christian college pulled an issue of the campus newspaper that featured a blurred photograph of four naked students in a dormitory hallway.
The Aviso newspaper violates a school ban on any publication with nudity or even the suggestion of it, said Chris Abrams, Malone's vice president for student development.
This week's edition of the paper featured a black-and-white picture of four men posing naked in an all-male dorm's hallway. The newspaper blurred the men's faces and genitals for the photo, which was published on page 11.
After papers were pulled from newsracks, the school issued a policy requiring all students to wear at least shorts in the dorms' public areas.
Student editor Ruth Lang said the weekly paper's work is being censored. She said she hopes the edition can be published again.
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Authorities say several injured in Tiffin bus crash
TIFFIN (AP) - A sport-utility vehicle hit a patch of ice Thursday morning and collided with a county-owned bus, injuring nine children and two adults, authorities said.
Two of the seven children on the bus and its driver were admitted to a Tiffin hospital.
The driver of the other vehicle, Melissa Waire, 31, of Tiffin, was in fair condition at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo. Her daughter Mara Waire 4, was in serious condition, and her son Luke Waire, 1, was in critical condition.
Waire's SUV slid left of center and hit the front of the 12-passenger bus, said State Highway Patrol trooper Jim Van Camp.
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