Lordstown talks

Lordstown talks
LORDSTOWN -- The board of education was to meet at 4:30 p.m. today to vote on a new contract with its teachers.
Patrick Pollifrone, president of the Lordstown Teachers Association, said teachers ratified a new pact last Friday. Pollifrone and the district were not releasing the details.
If the LTA approves the agreement, it will then go before the state-appointed financial planning and supervision commission, which meets at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the high school. The oversight commission was appointed after the district was placed under a fiscal emergency.
Teachers have been working without a contract since Aug. 1, 2000.
In October 2000, the district's nonteaching staff approved a three-year agreement with no pay raises. They will, however, receive raises equal to any other union.
Man pleads guilty
WARREN -- An 18-year-old man has pleaded guilty to three robberies.
Jamur D. Brown, of Sixth Street, Campbell, entered the guilty pleas Monday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to three counts of aggravated robbery. Judge W. Wyatt McKay said Brown will be sentenced after a background check.
Chris Becker, an assistant prosecutor, said he plans to recommend that Brown serve nine years in prison.
Becker said Brown robbed an ice cream truck Sept. 4 and on that same day he also robbed a man who was at a pay telephone on Idlywild. Becker said Brown also robbed Shop Rite on North Park on Sept. 12.
Meetings canceled
MINERAL RIDGE -- The December meetings of the Weathersfield Township Zoning Commission and the Board of Zoning Appeals have been canceled for lack of an agenda. The commission was to meet Wednesday and the appeals board Thursday.
Couldn't wait for Santa
SALEM -- A 3-year-old Salem boy is safe and sound today after being found wandering alone. He told authorities he had gone toy shopping. A motorist brought the youngster into the police station around 11:40 p.m. Monday after discovering him walking in the middle of East State Street near the east side commercial district. The youngster was dressed in pajamas and a jacket but no shoes. He had been spending the night with his grandmother who lives on the 200 block of Roosevelt Avenue, which intersects with East State. After everyone was in bed, the boy got up and left the house to go toy shopping, police determined.
Perry trustees meeting
SALEM -- Perry Township trustees reappointed Jim Newman and Ed Butcher to five-year terms on the zoning appeals board and zoning board, respectively. Trustees also gave 3-percent pay raises to all full-time employees of the road department and police force.
Charged in thefts
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- Pennsylvania State Police said two West Virginia men are accused of stealing thousands of dollars' worth of merchandise from two Mercer County stores. They were arrested at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Union Township Wal-Mart, police said Monday.
According to police, James L. Neely, 31, and Billy Joe VanScyoc, 31, both of Moundsville, W.Va., had in excess of $5,000 worth of stolen merchandise from the Wal-Mart and Lowe's stores in Hermitage, Pa., in their car.
Police said they also found a map that marked several Wal-Mart stores and other retail stores in the tri-state area that appear to have been either past or planned targets of retail theft involving both men.
Both men were arraigned by District Justice James Reed. They both face charges of retail theft, receiving stolen property and conspiracy to commit retail theft.
Treated for stab wound
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 22-year-old South Side man told police he was stabbed with a steak knife at a house on Pasadena Avenue by a woman he used to date.
Police were called to interview the victim at St. Elizabeth Health Center, where he was being treated for a stab wound to the lower stomach.
The Cameron Avenue man said he knew only the woman's first name and that she is in her 20s.