Child-porn case

Child-porn case
BOARDMAN -- Jon Scott Bloyer, 43, of Sigle Lane, charged with seven counts of pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor after police found photos in his home, will face a preliminary hearing at 10 a.m. Monday in Boardman Area Court.
Dave Matz, president of the Boardman Spartans little league football team, said Bloyer was an announcer for the team, but had no contact with the children.
Matz said a meeting will be at 8:30 p.m. Monday behind Center Middle School to discuss Bloyer's involvement with the organization.
Hit-and-run victim
HUBBARD -- The Ohio State Highway Patrol has identified the victim of a Friday morning hit-and-run as Michael Keckler, 53, a truck driver from Edison, Ohio, in Morrow County.
Keckler was struck by a truck shortly before 7:30 a.m. while walking in a rest area off the westbound lane of Interstate 80 in Hubbard Township at the Ohio-Pennsylvania line.
The patrol said he suffered extensive injuries.
The truck that struck Keckler has not been found.
Fire damages house
NILES -- Damage was estimated at $13,000 to a vacant, two-story frame house at 213 W. Park Ave., where fire erupted Friday morning.
The cause of the 8:41 a.m. fire is under investigation, the fire department said.
The most recent resident had moved out, but still hadn't picked up all her belongings, firefighters said.
The blaze started in a second floor bathroom.
Trustees special meeting
NORTH LIMA -- Beaver Township trustees will have a special meeting at 6 p.m. Monday in the administration office to evaluate personnel and discuss hospitalization and budget issues.
Suspected West Nile death
COLUMBUS -- A 77-year-old Franklin County man died Monday of complications related to probable West Nile virus.
With the addition of a probable case in a 33-year-old woman from Lorain County, his is the ninth case of human WNV reported in Ohio in 2003, and the first death, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
There were three reported cases at this time last year. The first WNV death of 2002 occurred Aug. 12.
ODH Director Dr. J. Nick Baird said WNV is spread by the bite of an infected mosquito, not infected birds or people. He said less than 1 percent of mosquitoes carry the virus and less than 1 percent of people bitten by infected mosquitoes will become severely ill.
Those older than 50 and those with other health problems are most at risk for complications such as encephalitis, inflammation of the brain, or meningitis, inflammation of the covering of the brain and spinal cord.