Parker Guest House is the Castro district's most stately gay- and straight-friendly digs occupying two Edwardian mansions.

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When asked for comment regarding whether Mr. Castro was the unnamed assemblyman and whether he had plans to resign, an individual who answered the phone at Mr. Castro's district office said the assemblyman's chief of staff would issue a press release by the end of the day.

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The 2004 incident was the first of four exhibitions of "bad judgment" that led to Castro's November firing by Cleveland's school district, according to records released Tuesday night.

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"I am very proud of my accomplishments and the many benefits that I have secured on behalf of my district over the last four years, " Mr. Castro said in a statement released by his attorney, Michael Farkas.

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Castro used to work as a bus driver for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, according to district spokeswoman Roseann Canfora.

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Ariel Castro used to work as a bus driver for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, according to district spokeswoman Roseann Canfora.

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Ariel Castro lost his job as a school-bus driver last fall for what Cleveland's school district called several demonstrations "of lack of judgment, " including one of leaving a child on a bus and another of making an illegal U-turn, according to records.

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