Union gives to Clark

Union gives to Clark
BOARDMAN -- The International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Ironworkers Local 207 is challenging the building trades unions in Mercer County to match its contribution to families in Clark, Pa., who lost their homes in severe storms Nov. 10.
"We voted to donate $100 per household to families who lost their homes in the tornado," said Ed Goldner, business manager of Ironworkers Local 207. Goldner said Clark borough officials told him 12 homes were destroyed. As soon as officials provide Goldner with the names of homeowners, he said he will issue the checks.
The union is also challenging Mercer County-based businesses to match its contribution.
Charges of gun theft
SHARON, Pa. -- Police have arrested a second man on gun theft charges. Robert F. Little, 31, of Mill Road is charged with theft, conspiracy to commit theft and receiving stolen property.
Little and Brian Clark are accused of taking five rifles and three pistols from a Logan Avenue home Oct. 29. Clark was arrested last week. Little was arrested at 8 a.m. Friday on the 400 block of A Street.
Police said Little is in jail after failing to post $10,000 bond.
Woman robbed at Y
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- Police are searching for a man who took a gym bag from a woman outside the New Castle Community Y.
Police said the man asked a 70-year-old woman for money about 9 a.m. Saturday and she refused. He walked around for a few minutes and then grabbed her bag, dragging her for a few feet before she let go. Police said the man then ran off with the bag toward North Street.
The gym bag contained about $30 cash and a swimsuit.
Bartender charged
YOUNGSTOWN -- Thomas F. Howlett Jr., a 22-year-old bartender at The Varsity Club, was due in municipal court late today, charged with selling alcohol to an underage person.
Vice squad members sent a 19-year-old into the Market Street bar at 11 p.m. Saturday, then entered the business a few minutes later. Officers found the teenager sitting at the bar with a bottle of beer.
Howlett, of Villa Rosa Drive, Canfield was issued a court summons.
Solicitation charges
YOUNGSTOWN -- When Melva L. Coney jumped into the passenger seat of Rudolph C. Johnson Jr.'s Ford Ranger on Hillman Street on Saturday night, vice squad cops saw it.
The officers followed the truck and stopped it near Garfield Street. Johnson, 66, of West Delason Avenue and Coney, 41, of Overland Avenue were charged with loitering to engage in solicitation. They were due in municipal court late today for arraignment.
Man dies after crash
AUSTINTOWN -- Samuel Charles, 37, of Main Street in Mineral Ridge died Saturday night of injuries he suffered in a two-car crash on state Route 11, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said.
Charles was ejected from his vehicle after it was hit from behind, crashed into a guardrail, flipped and struck a tree about 3:10 a.m. Saturday, the patrol said.
Charges are pending against the other driver, a 25-year-old Canfield man, whose blood-alcohol content was above the legal limit, the patrol said.
Kinsman House break-in
WARREN -- Vandals broke into the historical Kinsman House over the weekend. Police were called to the house Sunday morning by an employee of the Ohio State University Extension Service.
Trumbull County's extension offices are housed in the building.
The city-owned house on Mahoning Avenue was built in 1821 by Gen. Simon Perkins as a wedding gift for his daughter.
The city hopes to restore the home as part of the second phase of its Riverwalk project.
Wendell Lauth, a county historian, said some items in the house, such as furniture, were owned by the house's original owners.