Police are investigating whether a high-ranking state Judicial Department official was involved in a hit and run accident over the weekend that left a 9-year-old boy severely injured.

Used by generations of school administrators as a learning tool for students deemed unruly or disruptive, suspensions may create just the opposite result, a report finds.

While the Boardman Lane site, in the Westfield section of the city, remains a possible location, the Army will now also look at smaller sites than it originally needed.