Wednesday, October 23, 2002
Taking donations
VERNON -- Donations of canned and dry food items, good used clothing and clean baby toys and clothes will be collected at Badger Middle School at state Routes 7 and 88 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
The items will be given to Hartford Community Church and the New Life Maternity Home in Vienna.
Meet the Doctors event
YOUNGSTOWN -- Mended Hearts, a support group for heart patients and their families, is offering a Meet the Doctors event from 7 to 9 tonight in St. Elizabeth Health Center's Finnegan Auditorium.
Physicians will discuss cardiology and cardiovascular surgery.
Help Me Grow programhas screenings for kids
BOARDMAN -- The Mahoning County Help Me Grow program is offering a health and developmental screening day Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Youngstown Hearing and Speech Center, 6614 Southern Blvd.
The program targets children up to age 5. A variety of health tests will be available, including speech, hearing, vision, nutrition, dental and developmental screenings.
A lead-poisoning questionnaire and safety and poison control information will be provided.
Call (330) 965-7912.
Indicted by grand jury
WARREN -- A federal grand jury in Cleveland has indicted Theotis M. Sanders, 24, of Delaware Street, on a charge of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
The case was investigated by Warren police and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. No other information was available from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Cleveland.
Murder trial beginsfor two area men
YOUNGSTOWN -- Trial has started in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for two men accused in the beating death of an East Side woman more than three years ago.
Christopher Love, 25, of Dale Street, and Robert Blackshear, 44, of East High Avenue, each face a murder count for the death of Olivia Hubbard, 44.
Jury selection began Tuesday in Judge Robert G. Lisotto's courtroom.
Hubbard was found in her Woodcrest Avenue home July 5, 1999, her face bloodied and swollen, after police received a tip that a woman had been beaten there. Blood was found on the sidewalk and porch leading to her house; doors and windows were locked.
She had last been seen earlier that day.
Hubbard's son, Thomas Jr., was shot to death in July 1998 at an Elm Street convenience store.
Facing drug charges
YOUNGSTOWN -- One man was arrested on charges of aggravated trafficking in crack cocaine and illegally possessing a weapon after a criminal conviction, and another was issued a summons on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.
Police said they cited Angelo Gonzalez, 44, of West Myrtle Avenue on the drug paraphernalia charge after seeing him leaving 1014 Parkwood Ave. at 3:21 p.m. Tuesday. They said they found a used glass crack pipe in a coat pocket on the front passenger seat of the car he had just entered.
Inside the house, police said, they found a .357 magnum handgun on the living room floor, 99 packets of cocaine and a larger rock of crack cocaine in the ceiling of a second-floor bathroom.
They arrested Robert Hornbuckle, 41, who resides there, on the trafficking and weapon charges. Hornbuckle has served jail time for receiving stolen property, police said.
Rotary Club schedulesHalloween Oldies Dance
MERCER, Pa. -- Mercer Rotary Club is having a Halloween Oldies Dance from 8 to 11 p.m. Saturday at Brand Springs Community Center on state Route 158.
DJs Jim Bickel and Tony C. will spin the tunes.
Halloween costumes are optional, but cash prizes will be awarded for most original, scariest and funniest.
Tickets can be purchased in advance at $10 each from Mercer Rotary members, National City Bank in Mercer or Mercer Mercantile and Soda Shoppe. Tickets at the door will be $15. The price includes munchies and mixers.
Proceeds will benefit the Brandy Springs baseball and softball facilities.