Dog Days registration

Dog Days registration
EAST PALESTINE -- Volunteers for Dog Days, a community project day, are asked to register at the city park from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. Saturday.
Those who can't report at that time may come later.
Dog Days seeks to rally help for tasks such as painting park benches, maintaining the city's hike-bike trail and cleaning creeks that flow through the city.
Salem Butler exhibits
SALEM -- Hand-painted stained-glass designs from 1890 to 1930 will be on display through May 31 at the Salem branch of the Butler Institute of American Art,
On view through July 4 is an exhibition featuring photographs created on a journey to Beijing by associates of the Youngstown State University Art Department.
The museum, 343 E. State St., is free and open to the public. Its hours are from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday.
Grants for center
LISBON -- Columbiana County officials are hopeful federal grants in the next two years will help pay for a new emergency management center.
The county recently was awarded a $67,500 federal grant that is likely to be the first of three annual awards, emergency management director Jay Carter explained this morning.
The agency is in about 1,800 square feet it rents for $1,200 a month along state Route 45 in Center Township; it needs about 5,000 square feet, Carter said.
Estimated cost of a new facility is about $600,000. More grants will be sought to help pay for it, he said.
Firearms indictment
PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- Arian O'Connor of Youngstown has been indicted by a grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearms laws. O'Connor, 25, an inmate in Mercer County Jail, is accused of having a .9 mm handgun in his possession Sept. 27, 2002, according to the indictment. Because he is a felon, federal law prohibits him from having a firearm. He could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
Charged in bank robberies
CLEVELAND -- A federal grand jury has indicted a 40-year-old man, whose last known address was the Travelers Motel in Boardman, in three bank robberies in which a total of more than $73,000 was taken, the U.S. attorney said.
George W. Penson III was charged with the armed robberies of Sky Bank in North Lima, in which $29,576 was taken March 17, and of FirstMerit Bank in Akron, in which $21,417 was taken April 4, and in the robbery of Consumers National Bank in Lisbon, in which $22,418 was taken April 10. The case was investigated by the FBI and Beaver Township, Akron and Lisbon police.
Driving, drug charges
YOUNGSTOWN -- Robert L. Price, 26, of New Castle was charged with DUI, driving under suspension and possession of marijuana after he crashed his car into a porch at 29 McGuffey Road on Tuesday evening, police said. When asked his name, he gave his birth date. When asked again, he gave a portion of his Social Security number, police said. When asked to sign a form refusing treatment by an ambulance crew, Price wrote a phone number instead, reports show. The arresting officer said he smelled marijuana on Price and found $1,491 and a large bag of suspected marijuana in his pants pockets.
Woman escapes fire
FREDONIA, Pa. -- Fire Chief George Benninghoff said Patsy McCullough of Delaware Township escaped a fire at her home by crawling out a second-story window. McCullough, of 35 District Road, was trapped in her bedroom when the fire broke out just before 1 a.m. Tuesday. She was treated at UPMC Horizon in Greenville for smoke inhalation. Benninghoff said the fire started in the living room. Damage was extensive, and the cause is undetermined but not suspicious, Benninghoff said.
Hartzell memorial fund
YOUNGSTOWN -- Contributions for the Patrolman Michael T. Hartzell Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 28 memorial fund can be made at any Farmers National Bank. Hartzell, 26, was shot and killed April 29, in the line of duty.