Alcohol suspected in one-vehicle crash

Alcohol suspected in one-vehicle crash
FREDONIA, Pa. -- Pennsylvania State Police said alcohol is suspected of playing a role in a one-vehicle crash that left a Stoneboro man in serious condition today in UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh. Kenneth L. Walter, 31, was hurt when his pickup truck ran off District Road in Fairview Township and ended up in a ditch as he drove west about 4 a.m. Friday. He was first taken to UPMC Horizon in Greenville and later transferred to Pittsburgh.
Agriculture department OKs grants for society
SHARON, Pa. -- The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has approved two grants for capital improvements for the Mercer County Agricultural Society. Both will help improve the Stoneboro fairgrounds. A $7,784 grant will cover the cost of a restroom upgrade, and $7,207 will go for the construction of the Rabbit Barn. The money comes from the state's Pennsylvania Agricultural Fair Program.
Fire in vacant house
SALEM -- Firefighters were out before 7 a.m. today putting out a blaze at a vacant house at 388 Columbia St. No injuries occurred. Additional details weren't available.
$1,100 stolen from house
SALEM -- A house break-in was reported to police over the weekend. A home on the 800 block of Sunset Drive was entered, and $1,100 in cash was stolen.
The homeowner was uncertain when the crime occurred. It was reported at 11:45 a.m. Sunday.
$20,000 damage in arson
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- City firefighters were out until early today fighting a fire at an east side home. Fire Chief James Donston said the house at 405 R. Spruce St. was vacant. It is owned by Scott Burgen, who is incarcerated at the Lawrence County jail, Donston said. The fire, which officials said was deliberately set, started in the front living room and extended to the second floor about 11 p.m. Sunday. There was about $20,000 damage, he said.
Faulty wire blamed in fire
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. -- A faulty wire is the cause of the blaze that left 35-year-old Heath E. Fry dead, the Pennsylvania State Police said. Fry was found in the Wilmington Township house where fire broke out at 6:40 a.m. Friday. His cause of death is still undetermined, police said. Fry's body was found in a laundry room in the back of the house. Fire Marshal Trooper Mark Baer said the fire started in an outlet on a living room wall.
Crafters' Place 2003
HERMITAGE, Pa. -- The Notre Dame Parent Teacher Organization will have Crafters' Palace 2003 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Notre Dame School Social Center, 2335 Highland Road. Admission is $1, and the event includes a soup sale, a bake sale and a Chinese auction.
Feministic presentation
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. -- The Guerrilla Girls, a group of women who have been reinventing feminism since 1985, will bring their thought-provoking presentation to Slippery Rock University at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday as a way of fighting discrimination with facts and humor.
The free presentation, open to the community, will be in Swope Recital Hall. The group of anonymous women takes on the names of dead, women artists and appears in public wearing gorilla masks. Then the groups uses humor to convey information, provoke discussion and show that feminism can be funny. The masks are worn to focus on the issues rather than the personalities of the participants, the group says.
Men stabbed, beaten up
LORDSTOWN -- Police are investigating a stabbing Sunday evening that has left two men hospitalized.
Allan Dluhos, 23, of 1330 Salt Springs Road, was being treated this morning at St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center, where John Biviano, 38, who gave a Waseka Lane, Boardman, address was being treated after he was beaten up, police said.
Police Chief Brent Milhoan said Biviano went to Dluhos' home shortly after 6:30 p.m., where Biviano's estranged wife was staying. Reports allege that Biviano cut Dluhos in the face and stabbed him in the back during a confrontation, and then Dluhos beat up Biviano.
Milhoan said Biviano will be charged with aggravated assault.