Trial postponed

Trial postponed
LISBON -- A 16-year-old to be tried as an adult in the beating of a schoolmate will not stand trial until summer.
Judge C. Ashley Pike of Columbiana County Common Pleas Court granted a postponement in the case Friday to allow attorneys more time to prepare.
Tommy Hart of state Route 45, Leetonia, was to have gone on trial Tuesday on a felonious assault charge.
The trial is now set for July 29. Hart is in the county jail on $50,000 bond.
He is accused in the Dec. 10, 2002, beating of a 14-year-old schoolmate in Leetonia High School locker room.
Charged with assault
CAMPBELL -- Police have charged Trina D. Cole, 18, of Youngstown with assault after she was accused of spraying pepper spray into the home of her son's father, exposing several young children to its effects.
According to police reports, Cole went to the home to collect her child's clothing about 6 p.m. Thursday.
When the father would not cooperate, she sprayed him, reports said. Six people were affected, including a 3-month-old baby and three toddlers.
Searching for man
STRUTHERS -- Police are looking for a man who asked an 84-year-old Elm Street woman to hire him to trim her hedges and then stole her telephone after she declined.
According to police reports, the woman allowed the man into her home to make a phone call after telling him he could not trim her shrubs.
She was unsure if anything else had been taken.
Stolen car found
CAMPBELL -- Police recovered a stolen car after a man called to say he had been robbed.
The man told police two women held him up about 2:15 a.m. Friday in front of the Monroe Market, 112 Monroe St.
When police arrived, the victim had disappeared but the car he had been driving, a brown Cadillac DeVille reported stolen in Warren, was still in the lot.
Police were not able to locate the driver or anyone who matched the description of the women.
Memorial for attorneys
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Mahoning County Bar Association will have a memorial service at 11 a.m. Tuesday to honor local attorneys who died during the past year.
Judge Beth A. Smith of domestic relations court will give the memorial address in her courtroom on the fourth floor of the courthouse.
Attorneys being honored are Samuel W. Penrod, Thomas P. Wellman, Wilbert B. McBride, Lawrence J. Damore, William E. Cunahan, Michael Yurchison, Kenneth C. Schafer, Joseph Schiavoni, J. Morris Abramovitz and Judge Joseph E. O'Neill.
Herbal therapies seminar
YOUNGSTOWN -- A seminar to help health-care professionals gain a better understanding of herbal therapies encountered in everyday health-care settings will be Thursday from 8 a.m. to noon in the Chestnut Room of Kilcawley Center at Youngstown State University.
The speakers include two professors from the Mylan School of Pharmacy at Duquesne University, a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center nutritionist and others.
The fee is $45.
Call Eastern Ohio Area Health Education Center at (330) 941-2390 to register.
Officer reprimanded
SALEM -- A city police patrolman has been given a written reprimand and a one-day suspension after wrecking his cruiser for the second time.
Patrolman Charles Shafer, 39, was charged with failure to yield in a two-vehicle crash Monday. No serious injuries resulted.
Shafer was cited for failure to control in a February 1998 accident. He was given a written warning and a one-day suspension for that.
Police Chief Michael Weitz said Friday that sterner discipline was not given because it's been several years since Shafer's last accident.
He is to appear Monday in Columbiana County Municipal Court.
Labor disputes settled
LISBON -- Two labor disputes have been settled with Columbiana County deputies.
The State Employment Relations Board has ruled there was no evidence to support a union grievance that a deputy was harassed into dropping a formal complaint he filed last fall over a staffing issue, Sheriff Dave Smith said Friday.
The deputy, who had not complained to SERB, told the panel he had not been harassed.
In a separate matter, Smith acknowledged he violated the union contract earlier this month when he took a prisoner from Wellsville to the county jail.
That sort of work is to be done by a deputy. Smith said he did it because he was at an arrest scene and a deputy wasn't immediately available.