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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:00 PM

Crime article spurs talk of censorship at high school newspaper

School district says it respects student press, won’t restrict news coverage

By COURTNEY SERVAES, Herald Staff Writer

Dawn Rottinghaus is used to traditional front page stories — a welcome back story, a feature on foreign exchange students.

So when the editors of Wellsville High School’s student newspaper, The Eagle Cry, decided to run a city crime story about Chad McCracken — a Wellsville man accused of a number of drug-related crimes following an August arrest — she was a little hesitant.

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