Historian to speak on press inventors

Historian to speakon press inventors
NILES -- Trumbull County historian Wendell Lauth will speak on the "Harris Automatic Printing Press Co. -- A Niles Success Story" at 7 p.m. Jan. 13 in the auditorium at the Niles McKinley Memorial Library, 40 N. Main St.
The program is part of the Famous Niles Residents series, a part of the Ohio Bicentennial celebration by the library and the Niles Historical Society.
Lauth will talk of the company the Harris brothers started at the beginning of the 20th century, the automatic printing press the men invented and how their invention revolutionized the printing industry.
The event is free and open to the public.
Escape School
HUBBARD -- Escape School, a program about child abduction, will be presented at 7 p.m. Jan. 7 at the Hubbard Public Library, 438 W. Liberty St.
The free program for preschool to middle-school pupils and their parents will be the third offered at the library.
Areas that will be covered include being smart, not scared; skills to avoid and escape abduction; how to differentiate between good and bad strangers; common lures used by abductors; and how to get away, escape from a car and get help.
The program is sponsored by the library, National City Bank, Wood-Kortright Funeral Homes Inc. and Brookfield Head Start. The presentation is limited to about 75 parents and children.
To register, call (330) 534-3512. There will be a parent committee meeting of Brookfield Head Start at 6:30 p.m. before Escape School at the library. For information about the committee, contact Mindy Metzger, (330) 448-0145.
Sexual assault charges
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- A 15-year-old city boy faces charges in juvenile court on two separate sexual assaults. Matthew Mangino, Lawrence County district attorney, said the first charge stems from August. The boy is accused of rape and involuntary sexual deviant intercourse involving a 12-year-old girl in a wooded area near Britain Hill public housing complex in New Castle. The second set of charges, involuntary sexual intercourse and indecent assault, involve a 16-year-old girl. Mangino said the boy is accused of assaulting the girl on a back stairwell near the cafeteria of New Castle High School in late November. The district attorney said authorities became aware of both matters in late November. The boy has been released to his family.