Infocision evacuation

Infocision evacuation
AUSTINTOWN -- The Infocision call center at 5740 Interstate Blvd. was evacuated for almost two hours Saturday as a partial power failure in the area knocked out its phone system and computers and caused its rooftop air conditioning motor to overheat and smoke, the fire department said. Some 100 workers were evacuated from the call center from 11:41 a.m. to 1:44 p.m., and several nearby restaurants and a motel lacked power, said acting Fire Lt. Bob Williams.
Fatal accident at WCI
WARREN -- A 62-year-old mechanical technician died in an accident at WCI Steel on Saturday morning, the company reported. The technician, who was not identified by name in a company news release, apparently was pinned and crushed during a maintenance project in the plant's hot strip mill shortly before 9:30 a.m., the company said. The victim had worked at the Warren plant since 1987 and in the steel industry since 1969. Nobody else was injured. WCI's safety department is investigating.
Policemen injured
YOUNGSTOWN -- Two police officers were injured late Friday during a chase near Himrod Avenue. One of the officers, Brian Booksing, was treated at the scene for cuts to his hands, and the other officer, Kelly Lamb, was treated at St. Elizabeth Health Center. The officers were chasing a Niles man whom police had tried to pull over for speeding about 10:20 p.m. The man, 30, of Fenton Street, is charged with failure to comply and failure to display a driver's license. Police said he failed to stop when they tried to pull him over near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Superior Street, and that he led them on a chase on Belmont Avenue and U.S. Route 422 before he crashed into a light pole and slid into a ditch on Himrod Avenue. The man then got out, jumped a fence and ran. Police arrested him after a short foot chase.
A change machine was found in the back of the man's car.
Charged with resisting
YOUNGSTOWN -- A man from Ninth Street, Campbell, is charged with assault on police, vandalism, driving under suspension and two counts of resisting arrest. Police said they found him about 3:20 a.m. standing next to a black car that had crashed through a fence and into a yard on Wilson Avenue. Asked what happened, the man cursed at police. The officers tried to place the man in the back of a cruiser. He began to struggle, however, and was handcuffed.
Police then made another attempt. He kicked at the officers and was sprayed twice with pepper spray. He then kicked one officer in the throat and jaw and another officer in the chest three times, according to reports. The man was again sprayed twice with pepper spray before he got into the car.
The man then kicked the inside of the police car's door and window. Later, the man tried to crawl out the car window as his eyes were being cleaned by paramedics. He was eventually placed in a police wagon and taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center.