Police find bodies
of college students
ATHENS: The bodies of two college students were discovered early Saturday at an off-campus apartment complex near Ohio University.

Athens police said authorities were called to the complex at 6:18 a.m., when they found the bodies of a male Hocking College student and a female Ohio University student.

The names and causes of death have not been released. The Montgomery County Medical Examiner's Office is conducting the autopsy.

— Associated Press
Man pleads guilty
in Skybus gun threat
COLUMBUS: A Northeast Ohio man who boarded a Skybus Airlines flight in January and threatened other passengers by suggesting he had a gun has pleaded guilty to interfering with a flight crew member.

Todd Tornstrom of Chesterland faces up to 20 years in a federal prison. He pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in Columbus.

Prosecutors say Tornstrom had been drinking. Once in the air, he told flight crew members that he was a Transportation Security Administration agent and that he had a gun. The pilot decided to return to Columbus after Tornstrom couldn't produce an identification badge.

The 35-year-old Tornstrom didn't have a gun. His attorneys say Tornstrom's talk of having a loaded gun was just talk.

Tornstrom, who owns an asphalt company in the Cleveland area, remains free pending sentencing.
— Associated Press
Legislator to host
town hall meeting

AKRON: State Rep. Stephen Dyer, D-Green, will host a town hall meeting 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday at the Tallmadge Public Library, 90 Community Road.

The purpose is to discuss legislative issues — including education funding and other initiatives. For details, call legislative aide Nancy Sully at 614-466-1790.
S. African to speak
at UA law summit
AKRON: Sathyandranath Ragunanan ''Mac'' Maharaj, a former South African freedom fighter who was imprisoned with Nelson Mandela, will be the keynote speaker at the sixth annual Street Law Student Summit at 9 a.m. May 5.

The speech will be at the University of Akron Student Center.

Maharaj now works at Bennington College in Vermont and heads the Democracy Project.

In South Africa, he miniaturized and secreted out of prison Mandela's biography. He later became the first South African minister of transport under Mandela.

He has been recognized as one of the most innovative ministers in charge of infrastructure in developing countries. And he helped negotiations between the United Nations and Iraqi groups that forged the Helsinki Accord for Iraqi reconciliation and self-governance in September.

The program is sponsored by the Akron Bar Foundation and Sternberg, Newman, Shifrin Inc. Reservations are required. Call Linda Foster at 330-253-5007. Fundraiser to help
judicial candidate
AKRON: Lynne Callahan, who is running for Summit County common pleas judge in November, will have a Cinco de Mayo Plus 2 fundraiser Wednesday.

The Mexican-themed event will be from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Chummery, 1343 Weathervane Lane in the Merriman Valley.

Callahan is an Akron municipal judge.

Tickets are $50 each. For information, call 330-376-5756 or visit http://www.JudgeLynneCallahan.com. Senior Citizen Prom
Wednesday in Ellet
AKRON: The Ellet High School National Honor Society is sponsoring its annual Senior Citizen Prom from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday.

The event will be at Ellet Community Center, 2449 Wedgewood Drive.

Entertainment will include refreshments and crowning of the king and queen. Admission is free. For reservations, call the center at 330-375-2809.

Councilman to host
wine, cheese benefit
AKRON: Summit County Councilman John Schmidt will hold a wine and cheese fundraiser from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Dontino's Italian Restaurant, 555 E. Cuyahoga Falls Ave.

Cost is $50 or $250 to be a sponsor. For more information, call 330-923-9876. Outdoor art exhibit
celebrates diversity
WOOSTER: Diversity will be celebrated through an art exhibition in the 2008 Embracing our Differences Ohio outdoor art exhibit at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute.

Renee Powell, the only African-American woman to earn a Class A membership in both LPGA and PGA professional golf associations and the first to compete on the LPGA tour, will be the keynote speaker.

Her father, William Powell, also an accomplished golfer, developed Clearview Golf Course, the first public golf course to be designed, constructed, owned and operated by an African-American.

The 1.5-acre exhibit of 39 billboard-sized graphics and accompanying quotations focus on diversity. The exhibit is open to the public during daylight hours through June 14.

Admission and parking are free. The exhibit is handicapped accessible.