Police probe shooting

Police probe shooting
WARREN -- Police are investigating a shooting near Lynn Park on the city's south side about 1:15 p.m. Tuesday.
Police were told by witnesses a group of men in a sports utility vehicle were shooting at men in a Buick.
Detectives said this morning that as far as they know, no one was injured.
No arrests have been made.
Car theft attempted
YOUNGSTOWN -- A Hubbard Road woman had a gun shoved into her face Tuesday night as she went to her car at Belleria Pizza on Logan Avenue, police said.
One of the two would-be robbers told her not to do anything stupid and hand over her car keys. She complied. The suspects got into the car, but it wouldn't start.
When the security guard entered the lot, the suspects, both about 18 years old and wearing red shirts, ran off.
Trustees plan meeting
LIBERTY -- Township trustees will meet in special session at 6 p.m. Thursday in the township administration building, 1315 Churchill Hubbard Road, to discuss township business.
Plea in fireworks blast
GIRARD -- A Ravenna man has pleaded innocent to charges involving a fireworks explosion in which more than 15 people were hurt.
Van E. Burnett, owner of Burnett Display Co. of Ravenna, is charged with failing to conduct a proper site inspection and failing to secure equipment at Hubbard's Founder's Day celebration in Harding Park on July 21.
The charges stem from Burnett's failure to ensure that spectators would be a safe distance from the shells and the failure to secure racks that held the cylinders launching the shells.
More than 15 people went to area hospitals after a shell exploded near them during the display.
Burnett was released on a $10,000 personal recognizance bond and a pretrial hearing was set for 10:30 a.m. Nov. 13.
Badger receives grant
KINSMAN -- Joseph Badger School District has received a $4,000 grant from the Trumbull County Family and Children First Council to provide pupils with a broader insight into themselves and their community while focusing on improving self-esteem.
Alan Harris, high school principal, said this year's grant will be directed toward children in fifth through 12th grades.
The council is a federally designated organization that addresses the needs of children and families throughout Trumbull County.
This is Badger's fourth grant.
2 cited for crossing
SHARON, Pa. -- The Oakland Avenue Viaduct is closed, but a South Oakland Avenue couple walked across it around 4:20 a.m. today and got into trouble.
Police said an officer warned Lisa M. Gregory, 21, and Stephen R. Perozich, 26, who live two blocks south of the bridge, not to cross it when he saw them walking toward it.
They crossed anyway and were charged with criminal trespass, a minor misdemeanor, police said.
The bridge is being replaced and is closed because of safety concerns.
Theft at BP station
SHARON, Pa. -- Police said a thief took an undisclosed amount of cash from the BP gas station at North Water Avenue and Silver Street.
The burglary was discovered around 7 a.m. Tuesday.
Expunge request OK'd
YOUNGSTOWN -- A judge has approved a request to expunge the records of two former city policemen acquitted of robbery charges in January.
Judge James C. Evans of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court ordered Tuesday that all records of the arrest and trials of Mark Rakocy and Christopher Lombard be sealed and the matters be deleted from court records as if they'd never happened.
He ordered the city police and law departments, Mahoning County Prosecutor's Office, Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation and the FBI to seal records related to the matter.
Lombard and Rakocy were accused of roughing up a Struthers man in the bathroom of the Pulse bar on Market Street in March 2001, but a jury found them innocent.
Both were fired from the police department in July for violating its rules of conduct.