Boy faces charge

Boy faces charge
BOARDMAN -- A 13-year-old Poland boy faces a charge of gross sexual imposition, a fourth-degree felony, in Mahoning County Juvenile Court. Police filed the charge Friday against the Tamarisk Trail youth, who was released to one of his parents. The mother of a 13-year-old Boardman girl told police on Nov. 8 that her daughter had been sexually assaulted at Glenwood Middle School at 2:30 p.m. the previous day. Another Boardman mother told police on Friday that her 12-year-old daughter had been assaulted at the school around 8:45 a.m. last Tuesday.
House fire probed
POLAND TOWNSHIP -- Units of the Western Reserve Joint Fire District were investigating this morning the cause of a house fire on Spitler Road. Firefighters extinguished the blaze, which was reported at 7:55 a.m. No one was injured.
Union gives to Clark
BOARDMAN -- The International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Ironworkers Local 207 is challenging the building trades unions in Mercer County to match its contribution to families in Clark, Pa., who lost their homes in severe storms Nov. 10. "We voted to donate $100 per household to families who lost their homes in the tornado," said Ed Goldner, business manager of Ironworkers Local 207. Goldner said Clark borough officials told him 12 homes were destroyed. As soon as officials provide Goldner with the names of homeowners, he said he will issue the checks. The union is also challenging Mercer County-based businesses to match its contribution.
Bartender charged
YOUNGSTOWN -- Thomas F. Howlett Jr., a 22-year-old bartender at The Varsity Club, was due in municipal court late today, charged with selling alcohol to an underage person. Vice squad members sent a 19-year-old into the Market Street bar at 11 p.m. Saturday, then entered the business a few minutes later. Officers said they found the teenager sitting at the bar with a bottle of beer. Howlett, of Villa Rosa Drive, Canfield, was issued a court summons.
Solicitation charges
YOUNGSTOWN -- When Melva L. Coney jumped into the passenger seat of Rudolph C. Johnson Jr.'s Ford Ranger on Hillman Street on Saturday night, vice squad cops saw it. The officers followed the truck and stopped it near Garfield Street. Johnson, 66, of West Delason Avenue and Coney, 41, of Overland Avenue were charged with loitering to engage in solicitation. They were due in municipal court late today for arraignment.
Man dies after crash
AUSTINTOWN -- Samuel Charles, 37, of Main Street, Mineral Ridge, died Saturday night of injuries he suffered in a two-car crash on state Route 11, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. Charles was ejected from his vehicle after it was hit from behind, crashed into a guardrail, flipped and struck a tree around 3:10 a.m. Saturday, the patrol said. Charges are pending against the other driver, a 25-year-old Canfield man, whose blood-alcohol content was above the legal limit, the patrol said.
Kinsman House break-in
WARREN -- Vandals broke into the historical Kinsman House over the weekend. Police were called to the house Sunday morning by an employee of the Ohio State University Extension Service. Trumbull County's extension offices are housed in the building. The city-owned house on Mahoning Avenue was built in 1821 by Gen. Simon Perkins as a wedding gift for his daughter. The city hopes to restore the home as part of the second phase of its Riverwalk project. Wendell Lauth, a county historian, said some items in the house, such as furniture, were once owned by the house's original owners.