Fire at Warren home

Fire at Warren home
WARREN -- Firefighters are investigating a blaze that caused damage to a two-story wooden-frame home at 146 Campbell Place. The fire broke out at 4:35 a.m. Sunday. Firefighters said a young boy who lived at the home was treated at Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital. Firefighters did not have the boy's name or age late this morning.
Robberies in Niles
NILES -- Police are investigating two robberies that occurred Sunday and early today.
An employee at Days Inn, Youngstown-Warren Road, told police than a man came into the hotel lobby at 1:30 a.m. Sunday. He handed the employee a note that read, "Give me money, don't get hurt," and displayed an object that the employee believed was a fake gun.
The employee went into a back room of the hotel, and the man left. He was described as a white man with a camouflage jacket with a hood tight around his head. A man matching the same description entered the Dairy Mart on Robbins Avenue early this morning and demanded money from the clerk. He displayed a wooden object that the clerk believed was a weapon and the clerk gave him about $70.
Warren man shot
WARREN -- Police are investigating the shooting of a 46-year-old man. Capt. Tim Roberts said Richard Ham of 1357 Union Street S.W. was at home around 9:44 p.m. Saturday when someone shot him once in the stomach.
Ham was in serious condition late this morning in the intensive care unit at Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital, hospital officials said. No arrests have been made, Roberts said.
Powder in the mail
YOUNGSTOWN -- Tests of a powder in a piece of foreign mail that erroneously ended up at Youngstown State University have come back negative for a biohazard, said Leonard A. Perry, YSU's director of environmental and occupation health and safety.
Delivery of all on-campus mail at YSU was suspended Thursday, pending results of the tests, by the Ohio Department of Health in Columbus. The envelope leaking the substance, which was bound for New York but had the wrong ZIP code, was found by a university employee Thursday morning and turned over to the Ohio State Highway Patrol for transport to Columbus. The university's 12,250 students are on holiday break.
Baby sitter charged
SHARON, Pa. -- A Spearman Avenue man faces a charge of endangering the welfare of a child after a 4-year-old he was supposed to be watching was found wandering outside wearing only a shirt, socks and underwear, police said. Officers discovered her at Spearman Avenue and Quimby Street at 2:15 p.m. Friday. The temperature, with the with wind chill, was 14 degrees, police noted. Police said Barton Frezzell, 43, was baby-sitting the child at his house in the 800 block of Spearman Avenue, but left. Police did not say how long the child was left alone. Frezzell was in the Mercer County Jail in lieu of $15,000 bond this morning. The child was released to the care of her mother, police said.
Driver robbed
HERMITAGE, Pa. -- Police said a man driving on Hozel Road was robbed, possibly at gunpoint. Police said the 45-year-old man saw a Jeep Grand Cherokee stopped about 1:45 a.m. Sunday, and as he approached it, someone broke his windshield. The person then came up behind him and stuck something in his back, possibly a handgun, police said. Another person went through the man's car and took about $200 and a cellular telephone, they said.
Charged in stabbing
SHARON, Pa. -- Bradley Goodall, 40, of Smith Avenue, Hermitage, faces charges of aggravated assault and making terroristic threats. Police said Goodall and another man got into an argument at 9:22 p.m. Friday in the 1300 block of East State Street when Goodall pulled out a knife and stabbed the man in the stomach.
Police said the wound appeared to be superficial and the man refused treatment. Goodall remained this morning in the Mercer County Jail after failing to make $30,000 bond.