Guilty of child-sex charge

Guilty of child-sex charge
WARREN -- A Trumbull County jury found a Youngstown man guilty Thursday of 19 counts of gross sexual imposition involving an 11-year-old girl.
Hervey H. Dunn was found innocent of five rape charges, however, which could have resulted in a sentence of life in prison. Dunn, 43, of Sunshine Street, remains free on bond.
He will be sentenced by Judge Wyatt McKay of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court at a later date.
School board mulls levy
NEWTON FALLS -- The city board of education will meet in special session at 7 a.m. Tuesday in room 101 of the high school, 907 Milton Blvd., to consider placing a levy issue on the March primary ballot.
Libraries will be closed
WARREN -- All branches of the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library will be closed Dec. 21, 24, 25, 28 and 31. Regular hours will resume in January.
Meeting time changes
CORTLAND -- The Lakeview school board has changed the time of its Monday meeting to 5 p.m.
All meetings are in the high school media center.
Drive-thru gets OK
MINERAL RIDGE -- Weathersfield Township Board of Zoning Appeals on Thursday approved a conditional use permit for a drive-thru beverage center on a vacant lot at 2160 Youngstown-Warren Road (U.S. Route 422), located next to the former Scandals nightclub.
The owner of the planned new business, Peter Snyder, who attended the board's meeting, did not give a time frame for when the drive-thru will be constructed and opened.
Plans are for the business to operate from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday, with the possibility of additional hours until 11 p.m on Friday and Saturday. The drive-thru will be closed on Sundays.
Lottery tickets also will be sold, and three people are expected to staff the drive-thru.
Thiel College Walk-A-Thon
GREENVILLE, Pa. -- The Thiel College Walk-A-Thon for Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh got under way this morning. Collectors were out working the borough's intersections gathering donations at 7 a.m., and the walkers were to leave the borough headed south at 9 a.m.
The two-day trek, covering 100 miles from here to Pittsburgh, will end around 5 p.m. Saturday at Children's Hospital. This walk is the successor to the annual Phi Theta Phi annual walk-a-thon that raised more than $1 million for the hospital over 35 years. The fraternity was disbanded by Thiel last year and the college picked up the walk-a-thon.
The effort includes 40 collectors, 10 walkers and 15 counters, said Steph Erdice, student service specialist with the college's student services department. They will work their way through numerous municipalities along the route, collecting as they go.
The goal is to raise $50,000.
Ordered items stolen
SALEM -- An East Third Street woman said items she ordered off the Internet must have been stolen from her front porch.
She told police Thursday that the parcel delivery company said the items were delivered and left on her front porch because she was not home.
She did not find the items, three video games valued at $50 each and a digital camera worth $100.
Crash injures woman
PULASKI, Pa. -- A Farrell woman was in critical condition this morning at St. Elizabeth Health Center after a car crash Thursday afternoon on Pa. Route 208.
Pennsylvania State Police said Gayellen L. Crawford, 32, of Market Avenue was traveling east and tried to pass another car. She lost control of her 1989 Oldsmobile and it went off the road and hit a tree. Police said firefighters had to extricate Crawford from the car before she was taken to the hospital.
Her passenger, Dennis R. Phillips, 29, of Douglas Street, Warren, Ohio, was treated at the hospital.
Home repair charges
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- A Youngstown man is charged with theft and receiving stolen property after failing to do some home improvement work.
Neshannock police said John E. Newsome of East Dewey Avenue went to a home on Buena Vista Way in November and asked if the owners needed their gutters cleaned and some remodeling work.
Police said the homeowners paid Newsome in advance and the work was not done. Charges were filed this morning in Lawrence County.