Benefit garage sale

Benefit garage sale
Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital's Relay for Life teams will have a garage sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 13 at 221 Wae Trail, Cortland. Proceeds benefit the county's Relay for Life efforts.
Guilty of assault
YOUNGSTOWN -- Warren V. Wright, 22, of Gypsy Lane, was found guilty of felonious assault Friday by a jury in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. Jurors deliberated 12 hours Thursday and Friday before returning the verdict.
Wright faces up to eight years in prison, plus a mandatory three years because jurors also convicted him of a firearm specification, which means he used a gun to commit the crime. Judge Robert Lisotto ordered Wright held without bond in the county jail pending sentencing. A sentencing date has not been set.
Prosecutors said Wright shot 32-year-old Maurice Willis of Estate Circle outside the Pourhouse Bar on Mahoning Avenue in March 2000. Willis is serving a two-year sentence at Belmont Correctional Institution in St. Clairsville for unrelated drug charges.
Plea in road rage case
CAMPBELL -- Anthony Mymo of Niles pleaded innocent to five charges before Judge John P. Almasy in municipal court here Friday to an alleged road rage incident police said Mymo instigated while crossing the state line from Pennsylvania to Ohio on Tuesday.
Mymo faces one charge of carrying a concealed weapon, two charges of aggravated menacing, and two traffic citations, one for refusing to take an alcohol breath test and one for having an open alcohol container in his vehicle.
Police said Mymo, 54, was driving on Pa. Route 208 toward Ohio when an 18-year-old Hubbard man tried to pass him. The 18-year-old told police Mymo wouldn't let him pass and said Mymo flashed a gun out the window as they entered Ohio and motioned with the gun to pull over.
Police said they found a loaded gun and an open beer container in the vehicle. Mymo has been scheduled to appear Nov. 6 in municipal court.
No water complaints
CAMPBELL -- This summer marked the first time in 12 years that the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency received no complaints about the city's water quality, said Vincent Romeo, water treatment plant superintendent.
Romeo said the EPA usually fields calls each summer regarding taste and odor concerns with Campbell water.
He added, however, that that has changed since his department completed a $3 million upgrade at the plant, which allows crews to choose their water source. The plant traditionally took its water from McKelvey Lake in Youngstown but now takes water from Hamilton Lake in Struthers.
Inmate dies
MERCER, Pa. -- An inmate at the State Regional Correctional Facility in Findley Township died of natural causes in the prison Friday. An attending physician pronounced Albert Douglas, 55, dead at 2:15 a.m., said Gilbert A. Walters, superintendent of the minimum security prison. Douglas was serving 21/2 to 10 years in prison for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. He had been at the Mercer prison since June 1999.
Two men rob clerk
JACKSON CENTER, Pa. -- Pennsylvania State Police said two men robbed a clerk at the Keystone Junction service station at gunpoint. Police said the men entered the store on U.S. Route 62 in Jackson Township around 2:50 a.m. Friday and ordered the clerk to open a safe. The clerk handed over an undisclosed amount of money and one of the men then struck him in the back of the head before fleeing, police said. The robbers were described as black, one about 5 feet 10 inches tall with a muscular build, cleanshaven with a bald head; the other, about 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighing more than 250 pounds, police said.
Seeking DNA tests
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- Attorneys for Thomas Kimbell are asking for additional DNA testing before his upcoming retrial. Kimbell was convicted in the 1994 stabbing deaths of 34-year-old Bonnie Lou Dryfuse, her daughters Jacqueline, 7, and Heather, 4, and a niece, Stephanie Herko, 5, but was granted a new trial by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last year after a judge determined Kimbell's attorney was not allowed to cross-examine a key witness. Kimbell's attorneys say a new form of DNA testing that was not available before Kimbell's first trial should be done on several items from the Pulaski Township trailer where Dryfuse and the children were killed. They claim it will bolster their argument that Kimbell is not the killer. Lawrence County Common Pleas Court Judge Dominick Motto will consider the matter at a hearing at 9:30 a.m. Oct. 22. Kimbell is expected to go to trial in January.