ANTI-GANG PROGRAM--Attorney General Betty Montgomery gestures, as she is joined by Lt. Gov. Maureen O'Connor and police officers from around the state, during a news conference concerning funding to fight gangs, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 1999. In the forground are weapons and clothing items confiscated from gangs. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)

TOO YOUNG TO DIE--Bill Crimi, executive director of the Prevention Institute, gestures during a news conference concerning a report that highlights harm which can occur when youths have access to guns, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 1999. The Prevention Institute, funded through a grant from the Joyce Foundation, is a center of study and research to improve the community's understanding and practice of healthy behaviors. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)

GOOD NEWS--Attorney General Betty Montgomery reacts with a smile and a phone call to House Speaker Jo Ann Davidson, R-Reynoldsburg, as the AP's John McCarthy informs her that the Supreme Court had dismissed a lawsuite as "frivolous" which was filed by Rep. Dianne Grendell, R-Chesterland, against Davidson, Senate President Richard Finan and House Finance and Appropriations Committee Chairman E.J. Thomas, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 1999. Montgomery said that the rulling was "good news." (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)