First Night tickets

First Night tickets
YOUNGSTOWN -- Tickets are still available for the city's First Night New Year's Eve celebration.
They may be purchased at the mayor's office, Bank One, Metropolitan and National City banks, the Oakland Center for the Arts, the Realty Building, Inner Circle Pizza on Lincoln Avenue and the Arms Museum.
Prices are $8 for adults and $5 for pre-college students and senior citizens. The adult price rises to $10 on New Year's Eve.
The kickoff ceremony will be at 5 p.m. in Phar-Mor Centre.
The ball drop will be at midnight at Home Savings and Loan Co., followed by a fireworks display at the B & amp;O Station.
Turnpike donation
BEREA -- The Ohio Turnpike Commission has sent $14,740 in donations to the World Trade Center Port Authority Memorial Fund after its "Caring About America" fund-raising campaign among its employees and the public.
The money, raised for families of victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, consisted of $11,247 given by turnpike employees and $3,493 donated by the general public in barrels at turnpike service plazas.
Turnpike employees also donated hundreds of holiday gifts for needy families at maintenance, toll plaza and administration buildings.
Iron suspected in fire
DEERFIELD -- The fire chief suspects a hot iron left on by an absent owner ignited nearby clothing, causing a fire that destroyed a mobile home and its contents Saturday evening.
Fire Chief Miles Felmly said the owner, who returned home after the fire was extinguished, said he wasn't sure if he had turned the iron off.
Felmly also said the home at 1543 state Route 225 had faulty wiring and inadequate fuse protection and estimated damage at $65,000 to the home and $20,000 to its contents.
The home, which had a built-on addition, was fully engulfed when firefighters arrived four minutes after a passer-by reported the fire at 6:25 p.m., he said.
Palmyra, Edinburg and Berlin Center firefighters assisted Deerfield firefighters.
Blaze damages house
YOUNGSTOWN -- A fire heavily damaged an occupied two-story wooden house at 195 W. Myrtle Ave. on Saturday evening.
Firefighters responding to the blaze at 6:13 p.m. initially thought someone was inside the house, but found nobody there, said Battalion Chief Terrence Jordon.
No cause or damage estimate was available, but Jordon said the blaze may have originated in the living room.