Wreck kills man

Wreck kills man
MERCER, Pa. -- A Shaker Heights, Ohio, man was killed in a one-car accident on Interstate 80 in Wolf Creek Township, about 10 miles east of here. Mercer County Deputy Coroner Scott Black identified the victim as Jeffrey E. Siff, 44, of Ardmore Road, but Pennsylvania State Police said his last name is Siss.
Neither Black nor the officer who handled the crash could be reached this morning to clarify.
State police said the man's car left the road at about 5:30 p.m. Friday. The car rolled over four times and the man was ejected, they said. Police said a 47-year-old woman in the car is being treated at UPMC Pittsburgh. Her condition was not available this morning. A 7-year-old girl in the car was treated at United Community Hospital in Grove City.
Black said the man died of blunt force trauma to the head and chest.
Donations in jail
BROOKFIELD -- The Rev. Dan Cesene reached his goal of $10,000 in donations while confined to a makeshift jail atop the township administration building for 72 hours.
The pastor of Faith Assembly of God Church in Brookfield collected $10,077 for missionary work in Africa and Mexico.
Dressed in black and white jail garb, he began his self-imposed confinement Thursday morning, reaching his goal by 7:50 a.m. Sunday.
Schools receive grants
Two local schools were among 15 state-chartered, nonpublic schools receiving grants from Ohio SchoolNet.
Immaculate Conception in Youngstown and St. Patrick in Hubbard were each awarded $8,000 Ohio SchoolNet Telecommunity Internet grants for use in equipment purchases, professional development and content development.
The program provides grants to fund two-way interactive distance learning and Internet-based teaching and learning projects.
The grants are wholly funded through agreements among the Department of Education, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio and nine local telephone companies across Ohio, including SBC/Ameritech locally.
Armed robbery
YOUNGSTOWN -- A Youngstown woman told police she and her friends were robbed at gunpoint while leaving a local bar.
The 19-year-old woman said she was walking with friends at 1:50 a.m. Friday from the Varsity Club on Market Street to their vehicles in the rear parking lot when three black men approached.
According to reports, one man pointed a handgun at the woman's stomach and said, "Give me everything you have. You're about to die."
As the woman handed over $56 in cash, one of the men said to her he "did not know this was going to happen."
The men -- two of whom were wearing red shirts and the third wearing a blue-and-white checkered shirt -- fled in a white, four-door Ford Tempo.
Mailbox explosion
YOUNGSTOWN -- Arson investigators are trying to determine the cause of a home mailbox explosion.
A Rosewood Avenue woman told police she heard the blast at 1:45 a.m. today, then heard her mother and 7-year-old daughter screaming.
According to reports, when the woman came downstairs where the others had been sleeping, she found her mailbox, which was attached to the front of her home, had exploded through the wall, smashing a living-room table and imbedding glass and metal fragments in the wall.
The back door of the mailbox landed in the kitchen.
Narrow miss
YOUNGSTOWN -- A Florencedale Avenue man told police a bullet missed him by only a few feet in his residence.
According to reports, the 74-year-old man was in his bathroom at 1 a.m. today when he heard shots fired from the house behind his.