Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Fire at Beulah Temple
YOUNGSTOWN -- Someone tried to burn down a rear door on the east side of Beulah Temple United Holy Church of America, 523 Griffith St., police said. A worker who left the church Friday returned around 11:45 a.m. Saturday, smelled smoke in the building and discovered the damage. The dollar estimate of the damage wasn't known.
Symposium at YSU
YOUNGSTOWN -- Kala Stroup, president of American Humanics Inc. and a leader in higher education for more than 40 years, will speak Tuesday at Youngstown State University. Stroup will attend a community breakfast at 7:30 a.m. in the Ohio Room of Kilcawley Center. Her presentation, titled "Nonprofit Sector as an Economic Force in Our Society," will begin at 9:30 a.m. Also at the symposium, YSU leaders will talk about the university's new certificate program, which prepares students for roles in nonprofit organizations. For more information, call (330) 941-3068.
Biology seminar set
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. -- Dr. John Doctor, biology professor at Duquesne University, will give a free talk on tissue engineering at a biology seminar at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Phillips Lecture Hall of the Hoyt Sciences Resources Center of Westminster College. Doctor earned his undergraduate degree from the College of the Holy Cross and his Ph.D. from the University of California, and has done postdoctoral study at the University of Wisconsin. He has earned numerous awards for his research.
Official charged in DUI
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The city's former deputy mayor has been arrested and charged with drunken driving. Sal Sirabella, 53, was arrested Nov. 8 after returning home from a relative's house, where he'd been watching the Pittsburgh Panthers football game. "I thought I was fine, but obviously I wasn't," Sirabella said. "I shouldn't have been driving." Sirabella said he wasn't speeding and had been pulled over randomly. "I accept responsibility. ... And I'm sorry," he said.