Sunday, October 13, 2002
Nearly run over
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 31-year-old Florence Avenue man told police he was nearly run down by a large, dark car after asking a man to stop urinating on the brick wall in front of his home.
According to police reports, the resident came outside after midnight Friday and saw a man urinating. When the resident said he would call the police, an argument broke out with a second man driving the car.
Reports say the driver tried to run over the resident three times by pulling into the driveway. The car was later stopped and towed by police. No arrests were made.
Robbed on West Side
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 51-year-old North Richview Avenue man told police he was robbed of $1 at gunpoint Friday night.
Reports say the man had just gotten out of his car on Waverly Avenue when the robber demanded his wallet. The thief took the dollar and car keys before running off.
Christmas gifts for kids
WARREN -- Catholic Charities will conduct its annual registration for Christmas gifts for Trumbull County children Oct. 21, 23, 25 and 31 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at its offices at 175 Laird Ave. N.E.
There also will be a sign-up for working families only on Oct. 28 from 5 to 7 p.m.
Applicants must provide proof of income, receipts of monthly expenses, medical card or birth certificate and social security information on everyone who lives in the home.
Call the agency at (330) 393-4254.
Lawsuit over cookie
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Eat'n Park Family Restaurants has filed a federal lawsuit saying Silver Lake Cookie Co. of Islip, N.Y., is infringing on the chain's trademarked "smiley face cookie."
The Pittsburgh-based chain, which has more than 75 restaurants in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, including Boardman, says it came up with the cookie first. "That's debatable," a Silver Lake official said. "We've been selling that cookie for 20 to 25 years."
Eat'n Park officials say in the lawsuit they got a trademark on the cookie's design in 1993 and the chain has been selling the cookie since 1985.
Eat'n Park wants a federal judge to order Silver Lake to stop selling the cookies.
Remark criticized
ERIE, Pa. (AP) -- An Erie city councilman is being criticized for calling a water authority chairman a "Palestinian."
Khalil Rabat was the target of the remarks made by Councilman Mario Bagnoni and an unidentified caller to "Taxpayer Hotline," a call-in show, Monday.
The Erie Times reported that the caller complained the water authority, run by somebody with a "funny" name he couldn't remember, was fluoridating the water.
Bagnoni and Council President James Thompson deduced the caller was talking about Rabat, prompting Bagnoni to say, "He's a Palestinian. He's from Palestine."
The caller responded: "Oh, that's lovely. You know, all this 9/11 problems, and this guy's telling me he can put anything in my water."
Thompson has apologized to Rabat, but Bagnoni refused.
"I don't know why he is upset. ... I don't care. Tell him to go get an attorney," Bagnoni said. "I didn't mean it in the intent that he took it, for God's sake."