Plum Borough School District Superintendent Timothy Glasspool tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (https://bit.ly/2huyFDn) courts have determined officials can’t prevent the student from wearing the sweatshirt unless it disrupts the school day. Glasspool says the student has been asked not to wear the sweatshirt but has refused in part because his father believes he has a right to wear it.
Robert Williams is the father of the 11th-grader offended by the sweatshirt. He says Confederate flags “imply things that aren’t very nice” and represent slavery and bondage.
Record shop owner guilty in addict-fueled shoplifting ring
PITTSBURGH (AP) _ The owner of a since-shuttered Pittsburgh record store has pleaded guilty to using heroin addicts to shoplift books, videos, and other products that he then resold online.Fifty-one-year-old Anthony Cicero pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of organized retail theft in return for state prosecutors dropping more serious charges, including running a corrupt organization, also known as racketeering.State prosecutors alleged Cicero sold more than $2 million worth of stolen items online since 2008. Some of the stolen items were stored at his Slipped Disc record store in Oakland, a trendy Pittsburgh neighborhood home to The University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.As part of a plea deal, Cicero will pay $175,000 restitution and spend six months on house arrest and 10 years on probation.