Charged in stabbing

Charged in stabbing
YOUNGSTOWN -- A South Side woman is being charged with felonious assault after police alleged she stabbed her live-in boyfriend in the side with a paring knife Saturday afternoon. Officers went to the East Earle Street address just after 3 p.m. and found the man lying in the woman's lap with his eyes closed, bleeding from his side.
The woman, police reports say, told officers she stabbed the man after he hit her during an argument. When asked if she had been drinking, the woman told officers she had "a thousand beers."
Assault and theft
YOUNGSTOWN -- Police are investigating an assault that took place on the city's South Side on Saturday afternoon. A 42-year-old Summer Street man told police that a man beat him in the face with a pistol and stole his television set.
The man told police he arrived home just before 6 p.m. and found an unidentified man in his home, but would give no further information, including the brand of television set that was taken. The back window of a car in the home's driveway was found shot out.
Shelter fund-raiser
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- The Women's Shelter/Rape Crisis Center of Lawrence County is selling 2002 lottery calendars to benefit the shelter. Each calendar has a three-digit number valid for all of 2002 with the chance to win $25 each day, as well as two $50 days and one $100 day each month. Winners are based on the Pennsylvania lottery three-digit number. To order, call the agency office at (724) 652-9206.
Man sought in shooting
YOUNGSTOWN -- Police are looking for a 22-year-old city man accused of shooting at his ex-girlfriend's boyfriend several times early Saturday at the woman's West LaClede Avenue home.
The woman told police her boyfriend was sitting in a Ford Explorer parked in the driveway just after 2:30 a.m. when the ex-boyfriend came from behind the home and started shooting at the truck. The woman told police the ex-boyfriend had made threats to the boyfriend in the past.
The boyfriend, reports said, drove to his Boardman Township home and was not injured. Police recovered five shell casings from the driveway and found 11 bullet holes in the man's vehicle.
Fatal car accident
CLEVELAND -- A Lisbon man is in critical but stable condition in Cleveland MetroHealth Medical Center with injuries he suffered early Saturday in a car accident that killed a Hanover Township man.
Larry Warner Jr., 19, of Camp Boulevard, Hanover, was pronounced dead at Salem Community Hospital. Chad Pahanish, 22, of state Route 46, Lisbon, was flown to Cleveland from Salem Community Hospital.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol post in Lisbon said a car carrying Pahanish and Warner north on Whinnery Road in Butler Township veered off the left side of the road around 1:33 a.m.
The car hit an embankment and a ditch, rolling before coming to a stop upright. Warner was ejected from the car.
Troopers would not say who was driving. The car was traveling at about 55 miles per hour in an area posted 45 mph.
Golf course purchase
BEDFORD, Pa. (AP) -- The Bedford County Redevelopment Authority is buying the golf course at the Bedford Springs Hotel for $2.4 million. The county is still seeking state funds to pay for the $60 million renovation of the landmark hotel, about 85 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The hotel was built in 1805 and used as President James Buchanan's summer White House.
Fire at dealership
YOUNGSTOWN -- Investigators are looking into a fire that caused $35,000 damage to an auto dealership in the 700 block of Meridian Road Saturday evening.
Fire department officials said the blaze started just before 6 p.m. in the rear of the building, which contained about 15 cars. Investigators are not yet sure of the cause. The estimated damage includes loss of property inside the business.