Supreme Court delays voter-purge arguments

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is delaying its early November argument over Ohio’s effort to purge its voter rolls because one of the lawyers for the challengers is ill.

The court announced the change on Friday, less than two weeks before the scheduled Nov. 8 argument.

A lawyer for voters challenging Ohio’s voter purge told the court in a letter that lawyer Brenda Wright is on medical leave and unable to work. Wright had been set to argue the case.

No new argument date has been set. jury in northeast Ohio’s Stark County deliberated two hours Thursday before returning guilty verdicts against 27-yearold Brent Fields in Owen Buggey’s death last October.

A medical examiner ruled the boy died from septic shock caused by blunt force trauma to the abdomen.

Fields lived with his girlfriend and her four children in Canton and often cared for them. The girlfriend, Ruth Buggey, previously pleaded guilty to complicity to child endangering and obstruction of justice for lying to authorities about what happened to Owen.

Fields testified at trial that he would discipline Owen and his three older siblings to teach them right from wrong but never meant to harm them. middle school teacher found dead in her suburban Cleveland home was shot and stabbed.

The husband of Melinda Pleskovic, 49, said he found her Monday night inside their Strongsville home with stab wounds to her back.

The Cuyahoga County medical examiner said Friday that Pleskovic died of “gunshot wounds and sharp force injuries.”

Police reports show the family had been complaining about a series of pranks and minor crimes at the home in the months leading up to the slaying. Officers investigated a report last week about an unknown man trying to force open the back door.

Pleskovic was a sixth-grade teacher and taught in the Strongsville school district for 27 years.

Investigators are asking the public to be patient.