Civic center board asks council to OK budget

Civic center board askscouncil to OK budget
YOUNGSTOWN -- The civic center board has made a second request of city council for a six-month administrative budget.
The board is asking council to approve the $175,000 budget soon. The first request was made in November, but no council action was taken.
Of the total, $100,000 is requested for legal fees. The rest is for operating the office.
Washington trip setfor teen ministry
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Teen Ministry of Tabernacle Baptist Church will travel to Washington, D.C., for the 11th annual Youth Convocation Jan. 18 to 20, which is being sponsored by Metropolitan Baptist Church.
The cost is $150 per person and must be paid by Saturday.
Contact Lawrence Thomas for further information at (330) 793-0753 or the Tabernacle church office at (330) 747-9624.
Armed robbery at KFC
YOUNGSTOWN -- A gunman ordered employees to the floor and stole money from a safe at the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant at 3299 Canfield Road on the city's West Side, police said.
The man, who wore a black ski mask, entered the restaurant at about 9 p.m. Tuesday, carrying a gun and threatening to shoot anyone who moved from the floor. He then ordered a manager to get up, retrieve money from a safe and place it in a bag. He then fled.
Police reports show that two managers and three other employees were in the restaurant at the time.
Robbed at home
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 19-year-old South Side man reported to city police that he had been robbed at gunpoint in his home by a man he knew.
The Auburndale Avenue man said the acquaintance entered his home at about 11:40 a.m. Tuesday looking for a cousin, who is a friend of the alleged victim's.
He said the man, described as a South Sider in his 20s, then pulled out a 9 mm handgun and demanded money, saying he needed to feed his children. The robber took money and a loaded rifle.
Gunfire at drive-through
YOUNGSTOWN -- An employee at the South Side Big A Drive Thru on Glenwood Avenue told police that he had been fired upon as he worked at about 5:20 p.m. Tuesday.
The employee, 27, said he and the gunman, a Glenwood resident, had an argument in the drive-through area about a half-hour before the gunman returned, hiding behind a neighboring building, and fired five or six shots toward him as he waited on a customer.
Prostitution chargesagainst woman, 50
YOUNGSTOWN -- Undercover officers arrested a 50-year-old South Side woman in a North Side neighborhood on prostitution charges after she offered to perform oral sex for $20, police said.
The woman was charged with felony soliciting for sex after she told officers and a county jail nurse that she was HIV positive.
She also faces charges of possession of drug paraphernalia after police found a crack pipe in her purse.
Break-in attempt at bar
YOUNGSTOWN -- Robbers attempted to break in to a city bar that was temporarily closed down as a nuisance by a county court order last month, police reports show.
Smokey Joe's has been padlocked by the city pending a court hearing on the matter.
Police responded to an alarm at the 2722 Market Street building at about 9 p.m. Tuesday. They discovered that a padlock had been cut from a rear door, police reports show.