Fill dirt wanted?

Fill dirt wanted?
COLUMBIANA -- The Ohio Department of Transportation is compiling a list of people in the Columbiana County area who would like to receive fill dirt from road maintenance projects during 2002.
There are approximately 60 people already on file from previous years.
Anyone else interested in receiving dirt this year should pick up a work agreement at ODOT's Columbiana County garage on U.S. Route 30, one mile west of Lisbon, between 7 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Alerted to fire
LEETONIA -- A Miller Road man escaped a fire at his home thanks to an alert Ohio Edison employee.
Firefighter Scott Garlough said George Brown of 38245 Miller Road was asleep when a fire started in the basement of his ranch home around 11 a.m. Wednesday. Garlough said the Ohio Edison employee was working on lines in front of Brown's home, noticed smoke coming from the basement and awoke Brown.
Garlough said firefighters suspect an electrical problem in the basement started the fire. He did not have a loss estimate.
Blaze contained
LEETONIA -- Firefighters believe a bird's nest which fell on a furnace pipe started a fire at Simonds Leather, 38027 Old State Route 344. Firefighter Scott Garlough said Leetonia firefighters were on the scene Tuesday morning about 90 minutes. He did not have a loss estimate, but said the fire was contained to an exterior wall near the chimney. Columbiana firefighters also responded and Lisbon firefighters were on standby because of a possible threat to a nearby barn, Garlough said.
Family homeless
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- A family of five was left homeless this morning when their house caught fire about 7:10 a.m. Michael D. Antoniotti said his two stepchildren alerted him to the smell of smoke when he was leaving for work and he went back inside the house and saw smoke in the area near the oil furnace. Antoniotti said he got his wife, Shirley, and stepdaughter, Sherry Montgomery, 21, out of the house. The other children, Christina, 13, and Travis 14, were outside because they were preparing to leave for school, he said. The house is on Countyline Road in Hickory Township. Firefighters from Hickory and Shenango townships were still fighting the blaze at 8:30 this morning. The structure was engulfed in smoke and flames when firefighters arrived. "Thank God Teenie [Christina] came and told me right away. If it wasn't for her I would have driven off to work. Both of my kids did the part they were supposed to do and learned in school," Antoniotti said.
Home burglarized
HERMITAGE, Pa. -- Police said a burglar stole an undisclosed amount of cash from a home in the 2300 block of Twelve Oaks Drive between March 11 and 5 p.m. Wednesday. Entry was gained by breaking a basement window, and police said the intruder was apparently injured by the broken glass as they found drops of blood throughout the house. The residents had been away from home since March 11.
Charged in gunbattle
SHARON, Pa. -- Police have arrested a fourth man in a gunbattle in Farrell on Feb. 19.
Police said Lamar Wilder, 22, of Fruit Avenue, Farrell, was picked up in an apartment in the 800 block of Spearman Avenue in Sharon shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday on a warrant charging him with attempted homicide. Police said he is accused of being involved in a gunbattle with a group of men from Warren at Roemer Boulevard and Broadway Avenue on Feb. 19. No one was hurt, police said.
Southwest Mercer County Regional Police arrested three Warren men the night of the gunbattle.
Sept. 11 woes
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- Drug and alcohol problems that have resulted from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will get some funding. Lawrence County commissioners approved an agreement with the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Bureau of Drug and Alcohol for the county to provide treatment, prevention and intervention services as a result of Sept. 11. Money will be doled out as it is needed and no dollar amount was set by the state, said Charleen Micco, county administrator and chief clerk.