Man hit with bowling ball

Man hit with bowling ball
BOARDMAN -- A 21-year-old Struthers man received stitches and other treatment at Beeghly Medical Park on Monday after being struck in the head with a bowling ball at Camelot Lanes bowling alley on Boardman-Canfield Road.
Police said two men started fighting in the bowling alley and Christopher J. Daniel made an attempt to break up the dispute. One of the brawling men hit Daniel in the head with a bowling ball. Daniel went to the hospital and then called police. Police say they have an idea who Daniel's attacker was and are still investigating.
Employees suspected
AUSTINTOWN -- Police are checking a report that two employees of Wal-Mart on Mahoning Avenue worked together to steal about $1,300 worth of merchandise from the store during the past month.
Police were told that one employee took the merchandise from the store and gave it to the other employee to exchange. The second employee exchanged the merchandise for credit on store gift cards, which the two employees spent. Wal-Mart security told police the two employees may have committed similar thefts at other area stores.
Emergency alert system
BOARDMAN -- Safety forces from the Mahoning Valley were to meet today to finalize procedures for activating the Emergency Alert System. Mahoning County Sheriff Randall Wellington was to lead the discussion, which was at the Home Builders/Remodelers Association of Mahoning Valley in Boardman. Wellington said the update deals primarily with homeland security issues and the inclusion of the Amber Alert child-locator system in the local plan. He said officials from Mahoning, Columbiana, Trumbull and Lawrence counties were expected to attend.
African culture
YOUNGSTOWN -- The fourth annual Jabali African Cultural Celebration will be at 7 p.m. Friday in Kilcawley Center's Chestnut Room at Youngstown State University.
The event will feature a keynote address on "African Popular Culture in America" by Debora Johnson-Ross, professor of political science and international studies at McDaniel College in Maryland.
The evening also will include an African dinner, dance and musical entertainment by African students from YSU.
Rainbow Rental theft
LIBERTY -- An employee of Rainbow Rental, 3620 Belmont Ave., was strong-armed of store receipts Monday night. The assistant store manager told police he was making a night deposit at the National City Bank on Belmont about 7 p.m. when a man approached on foot and slammed him against the wall until he gave up the deposit bag. The robber fled on foot.
Blaze began in battery box
GIRARD -- Fire officials have determined that a Sunday afternoon blaze at the United Parcel Service building started in the battery box of a truck.
Fire Chief Kenneth Bornemiss said Monday that the cause of the $1 million fire has not been determined but it appears to have been accidental. He said seven delivery trucks and three tractor-trailers were destroyed.
There were no injuries, and UPS employees spent Monday sorting packages outside the Trumbull Avenue building.
Man held on $1M bond
WARREN -- A 48-year-old Youngstown man who has pleaded innocent to an aggravated murder charge is being held in Trumbull County jail in lieu of a $1 million bond. Daryl Brown entered the plea during an arraignment Monday in the courtroom of Judge John Stuard. His co-defendant, Wayne Gilliam, 21, who is in Lorain Correctional Institution, is expected to be arraigned today.
Brown and Gilliam are accused by Liberty police of killing Niles J. Emmert, 25, during a drug-related robbery March 15, 2001, at Emmert's Madison Avenue apartment. The weapon was an assault rifle. Gilliam was served with the charges Friday in prison, where he's serving a sentence of 54 years to life for the murder of a 3-month-old boy on the East Side.
Beaver trustees meeting
NORTH LIMA -- Beaver Township trustees have their regular monthly meeting at 6:30 tonight. At a special meeting last week, they made several adjustments, including budgetary transfers, to their 2003 spending plan.