Packard Museum to present car show



Packard Museumto present car show
WARREN -- The National Packard Museum's 13th annual car show, "Packards at Speed," will be July 27-28.
This year's show has two components: a Packard show and an All-Makes Cruise-In.
Other activities and highlights include a collection of Packard racing and specialty vehicles. Entertainment will be provided by the W.D. Packard Dixieland and Jazz and Swing bands, the Flintstones and the Stephen Foster Chorus.
There will be tours of the Delphi Packard Electric Systems plant and Gene Tareshawty's Packard Youngstown collection.
The Packard Promenade and the All-Makes Cruise-In will be on the South Lawn of Packard Music Hall on July 28, and both are in conjunction with Allied Forces Car Club.
The National Packard Museum is open from noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Route 18 access roads
HERMITAGE, Pa. -- The $13.5 million widening project on Pa. Route 18 will require shutting down a couple of access roads for some overnight work this week.
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said some nighttime paving will be done on both Dutch Lane and Lamor Road approaches to Route 18. The paving includes some grade adjustments to the roadway elevations at their intersections with Route 18, and that will require that they be closed.
Lamor Road will be closed at Hofius Lane on the west and Route 18 on the east from 9 p.m. Monday until 7 a.m. Tuesday.
Dutch Lane will be closed at Clarksville Road on the west and Route 18 on the east between 7 p.m. Tuesday and 6 a.m. Wednesday.
Lindy Paving Co. of New Castle is doing the work, widening Route 18 from two to five lanes.
Abduction, car crash
YOUNGSTOWN -- Police said they arrested a 49-year-old Warren man around 9 a.m. Saturday after he abducted a Superior Street woman, crashed the car in which she was riding into a pole, and fled with her purse.
Police reports said the woman was getting her handbag out of a car parked in the 2700 block of Hammaker Street when the suspect approached and entered the vehicle, then drove off with the woman in the car.
The woman told police her abductor then crashed the car into a pole near the intersection of Seneca and Oakland, then fled with her purse.
An eyewitness described the man and police apprehended him moments later. The woman suffered minor injuries in the crash.
Two men found dead
YOUNGSTOWN -- Two 42-year-old men were found dead Saturday afternoon; police said neither death appeared suspicious.
The first body was discovered around noon in a home on Salt Springs Road on the city's West Side. That man stayed at a friend's home Friday, police said, and failed to wake up.
About a half-hour later, the body of another 42-year-old man was discovered in a home on Woodcrest Avenue on the city's East Side. Police said that man also was discovered by a friend.
Neither name is being released pending notification of relatives.