• AREA METRO BRIEFS
Schools start book drive

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The Saginaw News, in this space, promptly corrects errors of fact and responds to requests for clarification.

• Gang leader gets more than 31 years
The reputed leader of the Sunnyside Gang, a major drug organization on the south side of Saginaw, will spend the next several years in federal prison.

• Volunteers to board up 20 eyesores
Volunteers from four neighborhood associations are uniting to board the windows and doors of 20 abandoned Saginaw homes today.

• Canvassers up for count
The ''courtesy knocks'' start Monday as about 100 U.S. Census Bureau workers begin their canvass of Saginaw County's households.

• School's out ... when?
At a time when many students have started the countdown toward summer vacation, Saginaw School District officials still are trying to settle on when it starts.

• Familiar site to fall
Inside the plaster-walled rooms at 245 S. Main in Frankenmuth, generations of students learned and countless tourists shopped for knick-knacks.

• In five years, home fell apart
A cluster bomb did not fall on the home at 2101 Parkwood at Webber on Saginaw's East Side, nor did a rogue tornado cross its path.

• Child porn found on computer
THE SAGINAW NEWS

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• Windsor, Brampton win openers
Windsor and Brampton won the opening games of the Ontario Hockey League conference finals series on Wednesday.