Removed from school

Removed from school
YOUNGSTOWN -- An Austintown student was removed Tuesday from the alternative school on Cooper Street after reportedly shouting an obscenity and saying, "I hope someone blows up this place" and "I could kill someone."
A Mahoning County deputy sheriff released the 17-year-old Birch Trace Drive girl to her father.
The deputy said he would confer with a juvenile prosecutor about filing a menacing charge.
Threats reported
BOARDMAN -- Township authorities say additional intervention is being done within the juvenile justice system with a boy who allegedly threatened another pupil while riding a school bus home from Boardman Center Middle School last week.
The boy accused of the threats by a Wildwood Drive woman returned to school Tuesday after being suspended for three days but has been prohibited from riding the bus, police said. They would not elaborate because it is a juvenile case.
The woman told police that the boy told her son he was going to either slit her son's wrist or throat, and that he had been threatening or harassing her son and her daughter at school.
Vandalism at site
YOUNGSTOWN -- Vandals did about $7,500 damage to a construction site at 3613 Market St., where a Family Dollar general store is being built.
The damage was discovered. Magnum Investments in East Palestine is building the store.
Jail is up to standards
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Mahoning County misdemeanant jail was found to have 100 percent compliance with standards that focused on security and prisoner discipline. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's bureau of adult detention inspected the facility at Commerce Street and Fifth Avenue.
Lawsuit filed
GIRARD -- Alycia L. Homes-Naples, a custodian at Girard Intermediate School, has filed a $100,000 lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Youngstown, alleging that she was demoted because of her race.
Defendants are the school board and her unions.
The suit says Homes-Naples, of Davis Street, who is black, was demoted to assistant custodian and her pay reduced.
She was told the demotion resulted from a reduction in work force with the opening of a new intermediate school, but she was the only person negatively affected, the suit says.
Homes-Naples contends the unions did not arbitrate her claim.
Superintendent Anthony D'Ambrosio says the suit has no merit.
Accident injuries
NILES -- Two people are hospitalized after a traffic accident about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Police said Joseph Burkholder, 49, of Pennsylvania Avenue in McDonald, was turning from Summit Avenue onto Robbins Avenue when a van driven by Edward E. Faler, 48, of Abbey Street in Girard, drove through a red light and the two collided.
Faler, who was charged with failure to stop at a red light and DUI, was in stable condition this morning in St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown, where a passenger, Frank Gaskill, 49, of Genoa Avenue N.W. in Warren, was in critical condition.
Burkholder and his wife, Janice, 46, were treated.
Anniversary celebration
YOUNGSTOWN -- "A Shepherd's Celebration" of the 30th pastoral anniversary of Bishop Norman L. Wagner of Calvary Ministries International includes a banquet at 6:30 p.m. Friday in Mr. Anthony's in Boardman.
Speakers at the church include Bishop Horace Smith of Chicago at 7 p.m. Thursday, Pastor Marvin Winans with the Perfecting Praise Choir of Detroit at 7 p.m. Saturday, Bishop James Tyson with the Christ Church Choir from Indianapolis at 11 a.m. Sunday, and Dr. Carolyn Showell of Baltimore at 6 p.m. Sunday.