Water shut-off in Girard

Water shut-off in Girard
GIRARD -- To repair a water main break, water will be shut off between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Friday from U.S. Route 422, west on Liberty Street, to River and Front streets.
Weathersfield officialsseek phone records
MINERAL RIDGE -- Weathersfield Township trustees want a judge to force a phone company to hand over records for use in an investigation.
A lawsuit filed Tuesday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court asks that Columbus-based Ohio Bell Telephone Co., also known as SBC Ohio, be ordered to turn over records for all incoming and outgoing phone calls July 23 to a phone number registered to Samual J. Verlenich, a township police officer.
Trustees say they requested the records verbally and in writing, but have received no response.
The suit says the records are needed to complete an internal police department investigation.
Chief Joseph P. Consiglio could not be reached.
5K race in Lordstown
LORDSTOWN -- The school district's athletic department is sponsoring a 5K race at 10 a.m. Sept. 21 during the Lordstown Apple Cider Festival.
Advance registration, postmarked by Sept. 15, is $10. After that date, the entry fee is $12.
Race day check-in begins at 9 a.m. at Trumbull Career and Technical Center, 1824 Salt Springs Road S.W. (the former Gordon D. James Career Center).
Registration forms can be obtained by calling John McCarthy, district athletics director, at (330) 824-2540.
Sentenced in drug case
WARREN -- A 36-year-old Dover Street man who pleaded guilty to several drug charges has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Judge W. Wyatt McKay sentenced Shawn Flowers during a brief hearing Wednesday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.
Flowers pleaded guilty to two counts of trafficking in heroin and one count each of possession of cocaine and possession of heroin.
Route 62 maintenance
MERCER, Pa. -- The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said there will be lane restrictions next week on U.S. Route 62 between Zahniser Road and the borough of Mercer.
Beginning Monday, PennDOT crews will pave Route 62 and also do some drainage work and install guide rails.
Work is scheduled to be done Aug. 29.
Short-change artists
HERMITAGE, Pa. -- Police are looking for two short-change artists who took cash from two businesses.
Police said the men got away with about $20 from Jerry Stigliano's Bookstore on East State Street and about $30 from Burger King on Hermitage Road between 8 and 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Police said one man was in his 50s, 6 foot 2 inches tall with gray hair, a mustache and no teeth.
The other man was 6 foot 1 with short hair and in his 30s. Both are black.
Victim's house shot up
YOUNGSTOWN -- A house on Rutledge Avenue, next door to where 3-month-old Jiyen C. Dent Jr. was killed in March by gunfire, was shot up about 9:45 p.m. Wednesday, police said.
The victim told police she has been subpoenaed as a witness in the earlier shooting case.
Trial for one suspect in Jiyen's murder, Wayne P. Gilliam, 21, of Euclid Avenue, was to begin today in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.
Arrested on warrant
YOUNGSTOWN -- Joseph L. Sanders, 31, of Dryden Avenue, made news in July when, instead of 180 days in jail for carrying a concealed weapon, he got three days and nine months' probation.
Sanders was arrested at 12:30 a.m. today on a warrant issued by Municipal Judge Robert A. Douglas Jr. for failure to comply with the terms and conditions of his probation.
Sanders was booked into the Mahoning County jail and was due in municipal court today.
Judge Douglas' July sentence elicited criticism from those promoting this summer's Gun Reduction Interdiction Project.
GRIP has been touted by U.S. Attorney Greg White and others as the way to get guns and their users off the streets, some to face federal prosecution.