One of the two co-directors of the Delaware County Board of Elections has been fired. The four-member board that oversees the county’s election office on Wednesday voted unanimously to dismiss Democratic Board of Elections Director Brian Mumford.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Coach Joe Paterno is fighting for his job amid “eroding” support from Penn State’s board of trustees and a widening sex-abuse scandal and possible cover-up centered on former assistant and one-time heir apparent Jerry Sandusky.
COLUMBUS — Voters in Ohio have approved a ballot measure intended to keep government from requiring Ohioans to participate in any health care system.
COLUMBUS (AP) — Votes on immigration, union rights and President Obama’s health care law could hold hints of the American public’s mindset, four years into an economic downturn and one year from the presidential election.
Concerned residents this week asked Delaware City Council to address dangerous traffic on Troy Road, citing incidences in which they believe motorists — including school bus drivers — are putting lives at risk. Danessa Higgins appeared distraught when she retold how two buses “flew” down the road while she and a young child were attempting to cross the street.
Concerned that it is not getting its fair share of bed taxes from a pair of hotels in the Polaris area, the agency responsible for promoting tourism in Delaware County has set in motion a request it hopes will prompt the Ohio Attorney General’s Office to shed light on the issue.
Delaware County commissioners on Thursday unanimously rejected a fact-finders report that recommended giving unionized Delaware County Sheriff’s deputies a 3 percent raise this year, and a 2.75 percent increase in 2012. “Any wage increase of less than 3 percent would likely result in deputies’ real income being less in 2011 than it was in 2010,” fact-finder Alan M. Ruben wrote in a 78-page report.
EXETER, N.H. — Despite a new rival’s surge, Mitt Romney is campaigning as though he’s still the GOP presidential front-runner, focusing his criticisms on President Barack Obama, taking few risks and keeping most proposals vague enough to leave ample maneuvering room.