Hearings set for men

Hearings set for men
NILES -- Two men will return to municipal court next week on charges of possession of criminal tools and receiving stolen property.
Police arrested Roger G. Morgan, 18, of Pershing Street Southwest, Warren; Donald E. Vasbinder, 18, of East Broad Street, Newton Falls, and a juvenile Wednesday evening.
Police responded to a call of an attempted car break-in at Boulevard Cinema in the Eastwood Mall complex, which has been the site of several vehicle break-ins recently.
Police say they saw two cars drive from behind BW3 at high speed. They parked in the employee area of Burger King, and police said they saw one man taking items from the back seat of one car.
When officers approached, they saw car stereos with cut wires and a pair of wire cutters, police said.
Judge Thomas W. Townley set bond at $5,000 for each man. Preliminary hearings are set for Wednesday.
The 16-year-old Warren boy was to be charged in Trumbull County Family Court.
Niles cleanup scheduled
NILES -- The city's cleanup will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 20.
Participants will meet at McKinley High School to pick up litter. The event is part of the Great American Cleanup.
Man pleads guilty
YOUNGSTOWN -- Edwin S. Scott, 42, of Elm Street, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to two counts of attempted murder.
The county prosecutor's office is recommending a 10-year prison sentence on each count. Judge Robert Lisotto delayed sentencing until after a background check.
Assistant Prosecutor Robert Andrews said Scott broke into the Ohio Avenue home of his former girlfriend, Mary Spann, and stabbed her once in the chest in her bedroom in May 1999.
He then went to the living room and stabbed Spann's friend, Robert Duke, about 20 times while Duke was on a couch.
When Spann tried to stop Scott from stabbing Duke, she was stabbed a second time, Andrews said. Both victims were hospitalized. Andrews said authorities aren't sure what caused Scott to attack them.
Sentenced in theft case
AUSTINTOWN -- A Lake Milton man has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from his arrest for damaging a soda machine and stealing four tires and rims.
Bruce L. Mollohan, 20, was charged with petty theft and criminal mischief. He was sentenced by Judge David D'Apolito in Mahoning County Court to pay a total of $200 in fines and court costs, serve six months' probation and complete 16 hours of community service.
He also was ordered to pay $210 restitution for the tires and rims and given a 30-day suspended jail sentence.
Mollohan moved a soda machine about 30 feet from its concrete slab in Lake Milton State Park on Jan. 1, turned it on its side and damaged the lock.
Facing multiple charges
HERMITAGE, Pa. -- A Delaware Township man is accused of assaulting several people and threatening to kill one person in the parking lot at Kennedy Catholic High School.
Gregory Knauf, 19, of Patricia Drive West was arraigned Tuesday on five counts of simple assault, three counts of recklessly endangering another person, and one count each of carrying a firearm without a license, possession of a weapon on school property, possession of prohibitive offensive weapons and terroristic threats.
Hermitage police said he is accused of bringing a handgun, brass knuckles and knives to the school parking lot March 23 and March 29. He was arraigned and released on $10,000 bond.
Assault on Avon lady
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- A 42-year-old Beaver Street man has been charged with simple assault and harassment after being accused of punching an Avon lady in the face.
The woman told police the man placed an order Wednesday and came back later demanding his cash back.
He got mad when the woman told him the order had already been placed and the money was gone, according to police.
Planting at Gettysburg
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- The National Park Service is planting shrubs at Gettysburg National Military Park this week in an attempt to restore the battlefield to the way it looked during the Civil War.
Some 16,000 shrubs are being planted in the "footprint of the old thicket." The shrubs will include blackberry, alder, sumac, elderberry and spice bush.