Pajama-clad boys found along road

Pajama-clad boysfound along road
AUSTINTOWN -- Township police picked up a 4-year-old boy and his 5-year-old brother who were walking in their pajamas along North Four Mile Run Road early today.
Police reported that a woman who had seen the boys on Forest Hill Drive near Mahoning Avenue called police at about 5:20 a.m.
When police picked up the boys, they said they were walking to their baby sitter's house on Belle Avenue.
Police went there and learned that the boys lived with their father on Cannon Road. There, the boys' 8- and 11-year-old sisters answered the door and told police their father was sleeping.
The father said the boys, who had learned to unlock the door, had sneaked out of the home.
Evidence shared
CLEVELAND -- U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., of Poland, D-17th, and Richard E. Detore of Virginia have been told which evidence federal prosecutors intend to use against them at trial in February.
In a notice of compliance filed Monday, prosecutors informed U.S. District Judge Lesley Brooks Wells that the congressman and his co-defendant received a list of the trial exhibits.
Traficant faces 10 counts, including racketeering, bribery and tax evasion. Detore is accused of conspiracy to violate the federal bribery statute while employed by J.J. Cafaro at U.S. Aerospace Group.
Among the evidence to be used are documents related to Cafaro, who has pleaded guilty to bribing Traficant in return for the congressman's influence to promote USAG's laser-guidance technology.
Bank's charity drive
YOUNGSTOWN -- Home Savings and Loan Co. is collecting donations for local charities throughout northern Ohio. To encourage the public to share, Home Savings will put the names of those who contribute on snowflakes to be hung on Christmas trees in each branch bank.
Charities that will benefit in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties include: Salvation Army, Struthers United Methodist Church Food Bank, Hospice of the Valley, Christina House, Austintown Local Schools Needy Family Program, Rescue Mission, Beatitude House, St. Vincent de Paul Society, Sojourner House, New Lease on Life, Social Concerns of East Palestine, Lisbon Lions Club, The War Station, Children's Rehabilitation Center and Associated Neighborhood Centers.
Special meeting
CRAIG BEACH -- The village planning commission will have a special meeting at 7 tonight to discuss housing, Issue II and EDATA projects, and contracting for the Village Street project. The meeting will be in the village building.
Board work session
BERLIN CENTER -- Western Reserve Board of Education will meet in a special work session at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the high school.
Arrested in thefts
AUSTINTOWN -- A 70-year-old Birchwood Drive man has been charged with two counts of theft after being accused of stealing Christmas decorations from two discount stores on Mahoning Avenue.
A Wal-Mart employee told police the man walked into her store at about 2:05 p.m. Friday and picked up an empty Wal-Mart bag. He then placed six boxes of Christmas ornaments and two paper cardinal decorations in the bag and walked out of the store, the employee said.
At 2:30 p.m., police received a report that the man tried to take two packages of ornament hangers and two extension cords from Kmart. He was confronted by police in the parking lot.
Schoolboy with knife
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 13-year-old Hillman Middle School boy was taken to the juvenile justice center Monday after a utility tool with a 3-inch fold-out knife was found on him.
The East Ravenwood Avenue boy told the principal that he brought the tool to school to help a friend fix a bike. The boy had been seen pulling the weapon out of his pocket in the cafeteria.
Police arrested him on a charge of conveyance of a dangerous ordnance onto school property.