Pancake breakfast

Pancake breakfast
HARTFORD -- The Hartford Fire Association will have its monthly pancake breakfast from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at the fire department, state routes 7 and 305. Donations are $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, and $3 for children ages 5-12. Children under 5 eat free.
Man guilty of selling crack
YOUNGSTOWN -- A Mahoning County Common Pleas Court jury found William M. Jones, 30, of West LaClede Avenue guilty Friday of one count of trafficking in drugs and three counts of trafficking in crack cocaine. Jones will be sentenced later by Judge R. Scott Krichbaum. Jones was indicted in September for selling Vicodin last May and for selling various amounts of crack cocaine in May and July. Three of the four charges stemmed from sales within 1,000 feet of a school.
Woman dies in car wreck
MERCER, Pa. -- Shelly Jo Snyder, 34, of Harrisville, Pa., died on Pa. Route 79 in Springfield Township at 2:45 a.m. Friday when her car hit a guardrail, according to the Pennsylvania State Police Mercer barracks. Snyder was traveling southbound when she lost control and her car hit the end of the guardrail and flipped over. She was wearing her seat belt. She was pronounced dead at the scene by Mercer County Coroner Bradley McGonigle.
Trial date set for man charged with murder
WARREN -- A trial date has been set for a Niles man charged with death-penalty murder charges in the death of a 76-year-old Weathersfield man Nov. 21 in his home. The trial is scheduled for Oct. 9 for Alan M. Francis, 42, before Judge John Stuard of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court. Francis is accused of killing John P. Crocker of Emerson Avenue. A pretrial hearing is set for 9 a.m. April 7. Francis has pleaded innocent to charges of aggravated murder, aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary.
$5,000 in food stolenfrom restaurant
YOUNGSTOWN -- Along with hundreds of pounds of food worth $5,000, the VCR and video security tape were stolen from Main Moon restaurant on Belmont Avenue. Police said the business was entered through a closed coin-operated laundry. The thief or thieves pried open a rear door at the laundry and then knocked holes through walls to get into the restaurant. Food reported taken includes 700 pounds of beef, 300 pounds of pork, 300 pounds of chicken, 200 pounds of spare ribs, 100 pounds of shrimp and 250 pounds of vegetables. Copper plumbing worth about $200 also was taken from the laundry, police said. The break-ins were discovered Thursday morning.
Pizza parlor broken into
BOARDMAN -- Police are investigating a break-in at a Market Street restaurant. Officers were sent early Friday to Uptown Pizza. They found a window that had been broken with a brick and a window screen at the business pried off. The business owner said that $18 in change from a restaurant cash register was the only thing missing.
Man charged with robbery
BOARDMAN -- A 22-year-old Youngstown man was charged with robbery in an October crime at Gabriel Brothers. Terence J. Cleveland of Williamson Avenue remained in the Mahoning County jail after being processed on the warrant. Cleveland is accused of punching a security guard at the store who tried to stop Cleveland from leaving the parking lot. The guard told police that he saw Cleveland conceal two pairs of jeans, put on a pair of Timberland boots and walk out of the store.
Victim identifies suspectin purse-snatching case
YOUNGSTOWN -- A woman who had her purse snatched while walking to her car in a parking lot at St. Elizabeth Health Center on Belmont Avenue positively identified Roderic Jennings as the robber, police said. Hospital police caught Jennings around 10:15 p.m. Thursday on Covington Street, roughly 25 minutes after the theft, and had the victim come to the scene for identification. Jennings, 43, of Delaware Avenue, was arraigned Friday in municipal court. Judge Robert P. Milich set bond at $20,000. Jennings will be back in court Jan. 12 for a preliminary hearing.
Benefit concert tonightfor injured bartender
BROOKFIELD -- Local musicians are having a concert tonight at the Yankee Lake Ballroom to raise money for a female bartender at Quaker Steak & amp; Lube in Sharon, Pa. The doors open at 6 p.m., and the first band will start playing at 7. Tickets are $5 each and available at the door. The bartender, known as "Red," has a severely broken leg as the result of a Nov. 28 hit-and-run accident outside the Sharon restaurant. She cannot return to work until about April, said Frank Fordeley, a musician and music store owner co-sponsoring the event with Nummies Motors.