Monday, March 19, 2001
Piano studentsreceive awards
YOUNGSTOWN -- Megan Mill, a student of the Lisa Czifra Piano Studio in Canfield, was awarded a 75-point gold cup and three others won 60-point cups at the annual Ohio Federation of Music Clubs district festival Saturday at Youngstown State University.
The gold cup is the highest award given and the 60-point cup is second-highest. Megan, a Boardman High School senior, won for her solo and concerto performances and also played in the honors recital.
The 60-point cups went to Ariel Kessler, a student of Fanny DeDomenico Piano Studio in Boardman and a Boardman High junior; Maria Amicucci of Audrey Rhinehart Piano Studio in North Jackson and a junior at Howland High School; and Erin Best, a student of Carol Walters and a senior at Lakeview High School in Cortland.
Worker thwarts robbery
NILES -- A worker at a West Third Street business thwarted a robbery. The man told police that two white men came into Profecto Pizza about 4 p.m. Friday. One man had a gun and their faces were covered, one with a blue bandana and the other with a white cloth. They called the employee by his first name and asked where the money was. The employee replied that it was in his pocket, next to his 9 mm gun and told them to get out of the store. The men ran out and got into an older, green Cadillac which drove on Third Street toward Fifth Street.
Charged in slashing
NILES -- A Warren man was to appear in court this morning, accused of slashing another man. Fred Wix, 52, of Garden Street was in the city jail this morning, charged with felonious assault. Randy Crawford, 30, of East Madison Avenue, told police that he and Wix got into an argument about 2 a.m. Sunday in the kitchen of a West Park Avenue home. The man told police that Wix pulled a knife and slashed his face, neck and hands. Crawford ran home and was treated at Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital. Police arrested Wix later Sunday morning at a North Main Street home.
Found in stolen truck
NILES -- A Maple Street man was to appear in municipal court this morning, accused of receiving stolen property, driving under suspension and drug abuse-marijuana. A West Federal Street man reported his Ford Ranger stolen from his home about 8 p.m. Saturday. A police officer spotted a vehicle that matched the description of the stolen truck traveling on Henry Street. The officer followed the truck onto several streets before stopping it at the East Park Avenue-Pratt Street intersection. Police arrested Ron Henderson, 31, who was driving the truck. Police said they found a small bag of suspected marijuana on Henderson and he had no driver's license.
Armed robbery
LIBERTY -- Township police are investigating an armed robbery at the Knights Inn. An employee told police that she was in the lunchroom about 9:15 p.m. Sunday when she heard a noise at the front desk. She went to check and found a man in a ski mask who was brandishing a handgun.
According to police, the man gave the employee a trash bag. She put an undetermined amout of money in the bag and returned it to him before he fled the motel at 1600 Motor Inn Drive off state Route 193.
Suicide attempts
WARREN -- City police responded to three suicide attempts in a four-hour period this weekend, reports state. Police Chief John Mandopoulos said all of the people threatening to commit suicide were men and all were taken to a local hospital for psychological examination. The chief noted that the first call was at 7 p.m. Saturday from man who lived in the 1700 block of Mahoning Avenue and said he was going to kill himself, his wife and three children. Police persuaded him to surrender. The second call came at 9 p.m. from a man on Linwood Avenue who threatened to kill himself. Police got the man out of his home and took him to the hospital. At 11 p.m. a man in the 300 block of Hall Avenue called police and said he had explosives wired to a bathroom door. Police got him out of the house. No explosives were found, Mandopoulos said.