Powder in the mail

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 the home. 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.
Teens thrown from car
ELLWOOD CITY, Pa. -- Three teen-agers were thrown from a car after it crashed into an embankment and rolled over three or four times on River Road in Wayne Township, Lawrence County. Michael Battaglia, 16, was flown to Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh, where he was in critical condition this morning. Driver Seth Michael, 16, and other passengers Tony Kimmel, 17, Andrew Riley, 16, Nathaniel Sommers, 16, and Scott Mulhollen, 16, were treated at Ellwood City Hospital. All are from Ellwood City. Police didn't specify who had been thrown from the car. Police said they were on River Road at 10:37 p.m. Sunday when Michaels lost control of the 2001 Oldsmobile Alero. Police are still investigating.
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.
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.
Man still in critical
YOUNGSTOWN -- Andrew J. D'Apolito remained in critical condition today in St. Elizabeth Health Center, recovering from injuries to the back of his head. D'Apolito, 44, of Southwoods Boulevard, Boardman, was found around 2:45 a.m. Sunday, semiconscious in a parking lot at Market Street and Woodland Avenue.
He told the ambulance crew that he had fallen. Police reports show that he might have been hit with a blunt object. D'Apolito had cuts to the back of his head and facial scrapes and bruises. Police had his pickup truck towed and held for the crime lab.