Teen injured in fall

Teen injured in fall
STRUTHERS -- An Edison Avenue teen is in critical condition in St. Elizabeth Health Center, Youngstown, with head injuries from a fall about 10 p.m. Thursday.
Fire department reports say Jason Gilpin, 17, was riding on the roof of a car in the 5th St. Plaza parking lot when he fell off. He was unconscious when emergency workers arrived.
Court orders sheriffto rehire deputy
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Mahoning County Sheriff's Department has again been ordered to rehire Antonio Owens as a deputy.
Owens was fired after he pleaded guilty to falsification in 1999. He appealed, and an arbiter ruled he should have been suspended instead of fired and ordered that he be reinstated.
The county appealed that ruling, which was upheld in a decision Thursday by magistrate Robert W. Bannon of common pleas court.
Bannon ruled that Owens should receive back pay and benefits with interest and that any mention of dishonesty be removed from his personnel file.
The county has 14 days to object to the ruling and ask for a review by Judge James C. Evans of common pleas court.
Cemetery cleanup
LIBERTY -- The township will begin cleaning up Church Hill Cemetery on April 2.
All fall and winter decorations, including flowers, must be removed.
Also, plantings and decorations that violate regulations will be removed during the mowing season.
Girard cleanup
GIRARD -- A citywide cleanup will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 7.
The cleanup is being sponsored by the mayor's office, Trumbull County Solid Waste Management District and Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
Mayor James Melfi said volunteers are asked to report to the justice center.
Partial closing of road
A section of New Buffalo Road, between Pine Lake Road and state Route 165 in Beaver Township, will close Monday while workers from the Mahoning County Engineer's Office repair a broken culvert.
The road will be closed for about two weeks.
Teen hospitalizedwith gunshot wounds
YOUNGSTOWN -- Brandon Moore, 15, of Magnolia Avenue was in stable condition today in St. Elizabeth Health Center with gunshot wounds to his right arm and chest.
Moore told police he was hit in the 1500 block of East High Street while walking home from his girlfriend's house.
The boy said the gunman jumped out of bushes and demanded money. When the boy didn't answer, the shooter fired.
Search for mother
HOWLAND -- A township detective is looking for a woman in Columbus who may be the mother of a dead baby found in a Brookwood Drive N.E. home last weekend.
Police Chief Steve Lamantia said Detective Paul Monroe went to Columbus on Thursday.
Lamantia said the Trumbull County Coroner's Office still doesn't know the cause of death. Coroner officials said it will take about a month to get autopsy results.
The badly decomposed body was found at the house by Anthony B. Lentine Jr. around 5:15 p.m. Saturday.
Officials say the body was in the house for about a year. The infant was wrapped in plastic garbage bags and was found in an unheated crawl space behind a closet.
Police believe a relative of Lentine's in her 20s may have given birth to the baby.
Tax abatement OK'd
YOUNGSTOWN -- Mahoning County commissioners approved an eight-year, 57-percent property tax abatement Thursday for Formetco Inc., which is moving to Austintown from Crescent Street in Youngstown.
The Atlanta-based company makes billboards. Matt Xander, vice president of finance, said it employs six people here and plans to hire at least seven more after its relocation and expansion.
It is moving to the former Western Reserve Sports Complex on Maple Avenue, which has six acres and a larger building.