Fire at vacant house

Fire at vacant house
YOUNGSTOWN -- The fire department has listed as suspicious a pre-dawn fire today at 41 E. Delason Ave., a vacant house on the South Side. The fire, which started in a lounge area, was reported at 3:38 a.m. Damage to the two-story wooden house was estimated at $15,000. County records show the value of the property as $11,900.
Flu shots to be offered
POLAND -- Flu shots will be offered from 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesday at Sunrise Assisted Living, 335 McKinley Way West. The shots will be given by Senior Independence Home Health Care. Medicare will be billed for shots for people age 65 and older. An $18 fee will be collected from people under 65, and they will receive receipts enabling them to seek reimbursement from their health insurance plans.
Woman's death probed
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Sunday afternoon death of a 54-year-old woman at her East Ravenwood Avenue home has been listed as suspicious. Detectives, the crime lab and a coroner's investigator were sent to the home after a report of an overdose. Police found Sandra D. Walsh dead on a bed. Walsh had been drinking with friends the night before and was given a prescription sleeping pill, reports show.
Boy fires gun into air
YOUNGSTOWN -- Four shots fired into the air about 8 p.m. Sunday outside Bennett Elementary School came from a .38-caliber handgun taken by a 13-year-old boy from under his mother's bed at their Cameron Street home, police said. The boy admitted to police that he took the gun and fired it to impress his friends. The boy was taken to the juvenile justice center.
School vandalized
YOUNGSTOWN -- Two buildings at Legacy School Academy for the Arts at Mount Calvary Church on Oak Hill Avenue were broken into and vandalized Sunday evening, police said. Screens were cut and windows broken. Desks were turned over and ransacked.
Bar manager charged
YOUNGSTOWN -- The manager of The Splash Bar on Steel Street was arrested about 1 a.m. Sunday on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon after advising police that he had a .45-caliber gun in the waistband of his pants. Eric Ross, 35, of Vienna Avenue, Niles, was released from jail after posting a $5,000 cash or surety bond about 1 a.m. today after a municipal judge set the bond about 10 p.m. Sunday, said Maj. Michael Budd at the sheriff's department. Police were sent to the bar, at 702 Steel St. on the West Side, in response to loud music complaints, illegal parking and a large crowd in front of the business. Ross was issued a loud-music citation, and the loaded gun was taken as evidence.
School windows broken
POLAND -- For the third time in three weeks, someone has thrown rocks through the back windows at Poland Union Elementary School. A school custodian told police he discovered the damage Sunday with eight rocks lying inside the building just below the broken window. Police reports say the window has been broken on three consecutive Saturday nights.
Furniture stolen
BOARDMAN -- More than $10,000 worth of miscellaneous furniture was stolen from Furniture Wholesalers Bedding Carpeting and Furniture on South Avenue over the weekend, police reports say. Store employees told police Saturday that a loaded trailer had been broken into and merchandise taken.
Indecent exposure
BOARDMAN -- Township police are looking for a man accused of public indecency and criminal damaging after an episode at Barnes & amp; Noble Booksellers on Saturday morning. A 29-year-old township woman told police a man wearing a gray baseball cap and red sweat pants approached her while she was looking at books at the store. The man exposed himself before driving off in a newer Pontiac Grand Am, the woman told police.