Man and wife charged with domestic violence

Man and wife chargedwith domestic violence
CANFIELD -- A married couple was arrested late Thursday night after a fight in the El Patio Motel on West Main Street.
The husband, 38, and wife, 42, were both charged with domestic violence. Both list the hotel as their residence.
The husband told police that his wife started throwing items in their hotel room because he wouldn't let her go to a bar. The wife said the husband started throwing items after she told him he couldn't go with her to the bar.
The hotel room was in "complete disarray," police said, and the husband had fresh cuts on his arm and hand. The man's shirt was ripped, and police said the woman smelled of alcohol.
Concert to benefitresidents of shelter
MERCER, Pa. -- Mercer Free Methodist Church will sponsor a Make A Difference Day Concert at 6 p.m. Saturday at 519 Grant St. The concert, provided by musician Chuck Thorpe and members of the Mercer County Jamboree, will benefit residents of Alternatives for Women: Advocacy, Resources and Education's shelter for the victims of domestic violence.
Those attending the concert are asked to bring nonperishable food items for the AWARE shelter and, after the program, they will be invited to participate in the inventory and packing of all of the items collected.
Those planning to help with that task are asked to bring a snack and a beverage to share with others.
The goal is to attract enough participants to make this "a Mercer community event," said Gail Habbyshaw, project coordinator.
City seeks bidsfor meeting place
CAMPBELL -- Plans for a $141,000 city community center at Roosevelt Park were approved by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and will open for bids today.
Mayor John Dill said he hopes the one-floor building, which is being paid for through a $96,000 ODNR grant along with $15,000 from Mahoning County and $30,000 from the city, will be built by the spring.
He said the center should seat about 200 people, includes a kitchen, heat, air-conditioning and an outdoor pavilion.
"I think it's been a long overdue project in the city," he said. "We need an indoor meeting place for everybody."
The center will be available for rent, Dill said, but rental rates haven't been set yet.
Cemetery vandalism
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Four youths are being blamed for desecrating one of Pittsburgh's largest and oldest Jewish cemeteries by damaging more than 100 headstones and burning at least a dozen U.S. flags.
Allegheny County police say two boys and two girls vandalized Beth Hamedrash Hagodol-Beth Jacob cemetery in McKees Rocks either late Monday or early Tuesday by toppling, shattering and damaging grave markers. They also put the flags in a pile and set them ablaze.
One of the suspects, a 12-year-old boy from McKees Rocks, was arraigned on a charge of institutional vandalism and was being held at Shuman Juvenile Detention Center on Thursday, said county police Sgt. Bob Downey. Authorities said it doesn't appear to be a hate crime.
Worker reinstated
WARREN -- A union leader working for the city got his job back this week after being accused of misusing sick time.
Lee DeJacimo, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 74, was reinstated before a grievance hearing, after admitting a reduced charge of unauthorized use of sick time. He returned to work Wednesday.
DeJacimo, a laborer in the water department, was fired recently after he left work sick in September and showed up later that night on the sidelines of a Harding High School football game. He contends complications from diabetes sent him home but that he felt better after taking medicine and sleeping awhile.
DeJacimo maintains he was ill but admitted the lesser charge because it was best for his family. He says he was also fired in April when the city told him there was no work available to accommodate an injury he had. He was later reinstated.