Swimmers to perform

Swimmers to perform
McDONALD -- The McDonald High School Royal Swan Club Swim Show has performances today and Saturday at 7 p.m. in the high school pool. Tickets are $3 at the door.
Show for kids in Niles
NILES -- Elvis & amp; The Purple Gang will perform at 12:30 p.m. Monday in Mount Carmel School.
The anti-drug, anti-alcohol show for elementary school children is free to the public.
Call Howard Mancini (330) 652-5547.
The Gang is Frank Fordeley of Fordeley's Music and Instrument Repair in Champion.
Openings in zoning
MINERAL RIDGE -- Weathersfield Township trustees are taking applications to fill openings on the zoning commission and the zoning board of appeals. Terms start Jan. 1 and can run up to Dec. 31, 2007.
Applications can be picked up at the administration building, 1451 Prospect St., weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Completed r & eacute;sum & eacute;s should include at least three references and should be submitted to David Pugh, administrator, at the township building by Dec. 6.
No trial for Jackie
YOUNGSTOWN -- A Mahoning County judge has ruled that Jackie Colon is not mentally competent to stand trial in the December 2000 killing of a 3-month-old baby.
Jackie, 16, is being held in the county juvenile detention center on a charge of murder. Judge Theresa Dellick of juvenile court handed down a ruling Thursday based on a psychiatric evaluation.
Judge Dellick said Jackie's case now will be sent to probate court, where Judge Timothy P. Maloney will determine whether she should be committed to a mental institution.
Authorities say Jackie threw 3-month-old Alex Zalovcik out a second-story window and then stabbed him to death while he lay on the concrete.
Bank thefts probed
AUSTINTOWN -- Police are investigating a report that a former teller at First National Bank stole a total of $6,150 from the accounts of three bank customers, including his grandmother, in the past few months.
A bank manager told police the former teller forged the signatures of the customers on withdrawal slips at the First National Bank branches in Austintown, Boardman and Youngstown.
Threats investigated
YOUNGSTOWN -- Councilman John Nittoli, D-7th, told police Thursday he was intimidated by an Alamo Place resident.
Nittoli, 73, said he went to a house in the 3700 block to investigate zoning complaints and was approached by an angry 35-year-old resident who said he can do anything he wants on his property and said "If you keep messing with me, you won't have a house."
The resident also threatened to sexually assault Nittoli's wife and drove past the councilman's house several times, police said.
Officers went to the house on Alamo but didn't find the resident at home.
Child-rape case
LISBON -- Sentencing is set for Jan. 17 for a Unity Township man who has pleaded guilty in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court to raping a 6-year-old girl and possession of child pornography.
Robert Clemmer, 30, of West Main Street, faces up to 10 years on the rape charge and up to 38 years for the child pornography offense.