Couple sues doctor

Couple sues doctor
WARREN -- A Liberty Township couple has filed a $5 million lawsuit against a local doctor and Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital alleging medical malpractice.
Linda and Thomas Arens, Mansell Drive, filed the lawsuit Thursday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court. The suit is assigned to Judge Andrew Logan. Dr. Janet L. Shiley, Niles-Cortland Road, and TMH are named as defendants. Officials at TMH declined to comment. Dr. Shiley could not be reached to comment.
According to the lawsuit, Mrs. Arens, who is vice-president of nursing at TMH, had surgical procedures performed at TMH by Dr. Shiley on Nov. 1, 1999. The suit further notes that she then had severe and permanent injuries and was hospitalized more than six months at another hospital.
Clothing giveaway
BROOKFIELD -- Fellowship Baptist Church, 546 S. Stateline Road, Masury, between Columbia and Ohio Streets, is collecting good, clean used or new clothing to be distributed at a clothing giveaway from 1 to 6 p.m. Thursday,and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 4at the church. Anyone wishing to donate is asked to bring clothing to the church by Wednesday. For more information or directions, call the church.
Paving pact awarded
NEW SPRINGFIELD -- Springfield Township trustees have awarded Gennaro Pavers Inc. of Warren a contract to pave Kibler and Beaver-Springfield Roads this summer. Gennaro submitted a low bid of $43,014 for about two miles of road. No start date has been set, but the paving is scheduled to be completed by August. The next lowest bid among the five submitted came from Romano Paving and Excavating of Bessemer, Pa. at $44,019.
Officials OK loan
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- City officials approved a $200,000 low-interest loan for Faddis Concrete Products, a Philadelphia-based company that will be on West Washington Street. The five-year, Enterprise Zone loan will help pay for $600,000 worth of new machinery. Fifteen to 35 workers will be hired. In other business, the city is receiving a $174,900 Department of Community and Economic Development grant to help start a home for homeless adults who are chronically mentally ill.
Accident injures teen
WINONA -- A Leetonia teen-ager was in satisfactory condition this morning at Aultman Hospital, Canton, after a two-vehicle accident Thursday in Butler Township. According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol Lisbon post, Candace R. Exline, 18, of Lowmiller Road, Leetonia, was a passenger in a pickup truck driven by Russell Sinsley III, 19, of 8th St., Salem. The patrol said Sinsley was driving south on Woodsdale Road between Hoopes and Coffee School roads around 5:20 p.m., and tried to pass a southbound van driven by Christopher Grope, 18, of Indian Creek, Poland.
Sinsley's pickup struck Grope's van as he turned it left into a private drive, the patrol said. The van then went off the road and struck a tree, the patrol said. Sinsley and Grope were treated at Salem Community Hospital. Sinsley was cited for improper passing, the patrol said.
Mercer County history
MERCER, Pa. -- A new written history of Mercer County, the final piece of the county's 200th birthday celebration last year, has arrived.
The first copies of the 600-page volume were expected to be on hand for presentation to the project's 89 sponsors at 3 p.m. today in the courthouse rotunda. The rest of the 2,500 books should arrive next week, said Bill Philson, executive director of the Mercer County Historical Society and a member of the Mercer County Bicentennial Commission, which organized the county history.
Philson said the new version covers the county's 200 years from 1800 to 2000. Copies are available at the pre-publication price of $50; the cost will go to $75 on May 15.