Renovation grant for YSU

Renovation grant for YSU
YOUNGSTOWN -- The state Controlling Board awarded $168,000 to Youngstown State University to help pay for renovations at Bliss Hall. The funds will be used for the building's ongoing renovation project, which includes the construction of advanced painting and sculpture studios, a ceramics studio including kilns, a foundry, a wood workshop, a computer laboratory, offices, a warehouse, an outdoor sculpture court, laboratory preparation rooms, tool storage rooms and restrooms. Rep. Sylvester D. Patton Jr. of Youngstown, D-60th, and state Sen. Robert F. Hagan of Youngstown, D-33rd, are Controlling Board members.
Two fights on street
YOUNGSTOWN -- East Auburndale Avenue was the scene of two fights on Monday. In the first, one woman fled before police arrived at 1:30 p.m. Police issued summonses to Leora N. Heriot, 22, and Faith Mitchell, 28, charging them with assault. Two other women who live on the street, both 26, were slightly injured. At 5:20 p.m., police were called back to the street for a large fight. They found a 16-year-old Potomac Avenue girl bleeding from the head. Witness told police that teenage girls were responsible and used sticks and cans of food to strike the victim.
Chase ends in arrest
YOUNGSTOWN -- Eddie Dukes led police on a slow speed chase on the North Side Monday night, bouncing off two cruisers as he tried to escape, reports show. Dukes, 68, of Bissell Avenue, was arrested on charges of felonious assault, DUI, driving under suspension, failure to obey a police order and resisting arrest. Police said he has had three DUIs in the past six years. The pursuit began on Ohio Avenue when Dukes drove his pickup truck into the path of a cruiser. Police pursued the pickup, which Dukes intentionally backed into one cruiser then another during the 25 mph chase, reports show. Dukes had to be removed from the pickup near Florencedale Avenue and sprayed with pepper spray during the arrest.
Stolen car recovered
POLAND -- Police recovered a stolen car from a back parking lot near the Sheridan bike path after a concerned citizen notified them about a suspicious vehicle. The car, reported stolen in Youngstown, was recovered about 8:35 a.m. Friday.
Candidate to speak
POLAND -- State Sen. Eric Fingerhut, the only announced Democratic candidate for the 2004 U.S. Senate race, will speak to the Democrats of the 17th and 6th Districts, a local political organization, at 7 p.m. Thursday at Bruno's Restaurant on U.S. Route 224. The public is invited to attend. Fingerhut, of Cleveland, plans to run next year for the seat held by U.S. Sen. George Voinovich, a Republican. Talk show host Jerry Springer is considering a run as a Democrat.
Man faces charge
AUSTINTOWN -- A man arrested for felony domestic violence was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center Monday after he cut his wrist and stabbed himself twice in the hand. Norman Hettrick Jr., 34, of Hubbard, was released from the hospital early today and taken to Mahoning County jail. He also is charged with resisting arrest.
A 30-year-old woman at the Westgate Motel on Mahoning Avenue told police at 6 p.m. Monday that Hettrick punched her after she told him she didn't have Oxycontin. Police said they spoke with Hettrick, who was combative. They then used pepper spray and handcuffed him. They found he had used the edge of a beer can to try to cut his wrist. An ambulance crew bandaged the wounds, and Hettrick was taken to jail. There, Hettrick grabbed a pen from a jail nurse and stabbed himself twice in the hand, reports state.
Pepper spray used
CANFIELD -- Police used pepper spray on a girl arguing with another girl Monday at the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center. Police said the two argued outside the lunchroom at about 2 p.m.