Power Pull contest

Power Pull contest
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- Lawrence County Fairgrounds will be the host of the Pennsylvania Power Pull Spring Nationals on Saturday. The event, sanctioned by the American Tractor Pullers Association and sponsored by McClymonds Transit of Portersville, will feature more than 30 high-powered tractors competing in two diesel tractor divisions. The vehicles will compete on twin side-by-side tracks in front of the grandstands.
Additional events will be on a separate track. Gates will open at 4 p.m., and the first pull begins at 7 p.m. Parking is free, and the refreshment stands will be open. Tickets at the gate are $12 for adults and $8 for children younger than 12. Advance tickets are $10 and $6. For details, call (724) 654-7747.
Community Health Fair
FARRELL, Pa. -- Child Care Information Services of Mercer County will have a Community Health Fair from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday at the E.J. McCluskey Gym in the Farrell school complex on Roemer Boulevard.
"It's a Family Affair" is the theme for the event, which will draw about 40 social service agencies, physicians and hospitals that will provide programming information to the public.
There also will be entertainment, clowns and games throughout the day.
The program is designed to provide health-care information for the entire family, from infants to grandparents, said Christal Graham-Jones, resource and referral specialist for Child Care Information Services.
Fatal accident at WCI
WARREN -- A 62-year-old mechanical technician died in an accident at WCI Steel 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 that 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.