DUI checkpoint

DUI checkpoint
NILES -- The Trumbull County DUI Task Force will conduct a sobriety checkpoint from 10 tonight to 3 a.m. Saturday in the Niles-Weathersfield area.
Man pleads guiltyin abduction, robbery
WARREN -- Michael McDonald has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for abducting a man from a drugstore parking lot, forcing him to make a bank-machine withdrawal, then leaving him tied to a tree.
McDonald, 18, of 635 Lener Ave. S.W., pleaded guilty Thursday before Trumbull Common Pleas Judge John M. Stuard to receiving stolen property and using a firearm in the commission of a felony.
He initially faced charges of aggravated robbery and kidnapping.
Cousins found deadon the same day
NILES -- Two cousins died in their homes this week.
Gregory Tauro, 63, of Erie Street, and Robert Tauro, 49, of Ravine Court, were found dead Wednesday.
Police reports indicate Gregory died before 8:20 a.m. of apparent natural causes. The report said he'd complained for several days of chest pains but refused to go to the hospital.
Police were called to Robert's home around 5:30 p.m. on a report of attempted suicide. His cause of death has not been determined.
Robert, a California entertainment lawyer, is the son of the co-founder of Tauro Brothers Trucking in Niles and the brother-in-law of Frank DeJute, a former director of the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District.
Gregory was retired from Niles city schools.
Extra police patrols
CHAMPION -- Extra, random police patrols are on the roads here through the end of June.
Made possible by grants from the Governors Highway Safety Office and the Trumbull County DUI Task Force, the extra patrols will target impaired drivers and seat-belt and child safety-seat violations.
Suspected impaired drivers can be reported to (800) GRAB-DUI, cellular *DUI or township police at (330) 675-2730.
Niles sets May 21 date for mosquito spraying
NILES -- Spraying for mosquitoes throughout the city is set to start later this month.
Spraying will begin after 6 p.m. May 21. In case of inclement weather, the date will be May 22.
Anyone with respiratory problems should stay inside with windows closed.
Food should not be prepared or left outside during the spraying.
All pets should be taken inside.
Zoning meeting canceled
MINERAL RIDGE -- The regular monthly meeting for the Weathersfield Board of Zoning Appeals scheduled for Thursday has been canceled for lack of an agenda.
The zoning commission's regular meeting is Wednesday at 6 p.m.
Boy on bike hits carbacking out of driveway
NILES -- A 6-year-old Cherry Street boy suffered minor injuries when the bike he was riding collided with a car.
According to reports, the boy was riding on the sidewalk in the 100 block of Lafayette Avenue around 3:30 p.m. Thursday and ran into a car being backed out of a driveway by a 37-year-old woman.
The boy was checked at the scene by ambulance personnel and released to his grandmother.
Car cruise-in canceled
SHARON, Pa. -- The car cruise-in scheduled for Saturday at the Penn State Shenango campus has been canceled.
Girl dies a day afterColumbiana accident
YOUNGSTOWN -- Amanda Radman, the 16-year-old girl who was critically injured in a Wednesday afternoon traffic accident near Columbiana, died Thursday in St. Elizabeth Health Center.
Radman, of Kelly Park Road, Fairfield Township in Columbiana County, was westbound on that road around 5:40 p.m. when she failed to stop at Middleton Road, colliding with a minivan, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
Store employeesburned in flash fire
CANFIELD -- Two Do-Cut True Value store employees were listed this morning in stable condition in the Akron Burn Center.
Chief Bob Tieche of the Cardinal Joint Fire Department said Stanley Kosocowski, 42, and David Scott Crinsic, 23, were burned about 12:50 p.m. Thursday at the South Raccoon Road store in a flash fire.
Kosocowski was burned over18 percent of his body, and Crinsic received burns to 25 percent of his body, Tieche said.
The fire was extinguished by other Do-Cut employees.
The cause probably will not be determined for a few weeks, Tieche said.
The fire didn't cause any damage to the business.