Fishing for bombs?

Fishing for bombs?
AUSTINTOWN -- It could have been a bomb, but it wasn't.
A suspicious package found behind a New Road apartment building Wednesday morning was nothing but a tackle box, according to township police.
Police received a call about 7:50 a.m. Wednesday from a resident of Four Seasons Apartments in the 4200 block of New Road who found the box outside an entrance and thought it was suspicious.
Police called the Youngstown Bomb Squad to X-ray the package.
It appeared to contain suspicious objects, police said, so the bomb squad opened the box using a special water tool designed to prevent explosions. Officers found nothing but fishing tackle inside.
Canfield teachers talks
CANFIELD -- Contract negotiations between teachers and school officials will continue Oct. 14.
The meeting was set during a negotiation session earlier this week. A tentative meeting was also slated for Oct. 20.
"Of course, we hope that everything will be settled Oct. 14 and we won't have to have that [Oct. 20] meeting," noted Dante Zambrini, superintendent.
Accused of selling heroin
BOARDMAN -- Police arrested a Jose A. Flores, 31, of Kendis Circle on a charge of trafficking in heroin. He was secretly indicted last week by a Mahoning County grand jury and picked up on a warrant Tuesday at the Community Corrections Association facility, where he was being held on an unrelated charge.
Candidates forum
YOUNGSTOWN -- The North East Home Owners organization will have a forum for candidates running for seats on city council and the city school board at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 9 at Price Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 920 Dryden Ave.
The forum was originally scheduled for today.
Cases sent to grand jury
GIRARD -- The Trumbull County grand jury will hear cases against two area men accused of trying to rob Brine Pharmacy on N. State Street last week.
Scott A. Rindfuss, 36, who has addresses in Youngstown and Niles, and William J. Coudriet, 52, of Warren Avenue, Niles, appeared Wednesday in Girard Municipal Court.
Rindfuss is charged with aggravated robbery, kidnapping and possession of criminal tools, and Coudriet is charged with complicity to aggravated robbery and complicity to kidnapping.
Both are in the county jail with bond set at $50,000 each.
Big winner in Lisbon
LISBON -- Casey L. Reynolds, 24, of Lisbon has won the top prize, $1,000 a week for life, in the Ohio Lottery's Win for Life instant game. She filed a claim this morning at the lottery's regional office in Austintown. She bought the ticket at Farm Bills Too, 7662 state Route 45.
Reynolds says she plans to take the honeymoon she and husband Brian never had and buy a new car.
After taxes totaling 28.5 percent, Reynolds will receive a yearly lump sum check for $37,108 for the rest of her life.
Trucker faces charge
WARREN -- A truck driver, who Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers say caused a six-vehicle pileup, has been charged with a misdemeanor count of vehicular manslaughter.
Jagdeep Singh of New York was charged Wednesday and will appear in municipal court in the next few weeks, court officials said.
The patrol said Singh collided with several vehicles Aug. 26 on state Route 82 at Howland-Wilson Road in Howland. The crash killed Vickie L. Dietrich, 50, of Poland, and sent several others to area hospitals.
Dredging legislation
WARREN -- The U.S. Senate has approved legislation that provides $942,000 for the final piece of a feasibility study on the dredging of the Mahoning River.
The funding must be reconciled in committee with the House-passed version of the bill. The money will fund the final phase of a $3 million study that focuses on removing contaminated sediment from 31 miles of the river between Warren and the Pennsylvania line.
Dredging the river is expected to cost about $100 million and take 12 to 15 years.