Fugitive arrested

Fugitive arrested
YOUNGSTOWN -- Lance Julious, who was featured Sunday in The Vindicator as the Mahoning Valley Violent Crimes Task Force fugitive of the week, was arrested Tuesday in Akron, U.S. Marshal Peter J. Elliott said Wednesday.
Julious, 26, of Youngstown, is charged with aggravated burglary. Elliott said the MVVCTF received a tip, then worked with the U.S. Marshal Service task force to arrest Julious. Elliott praised the cooperative effort. Julious was in the Summit County jail today, pending transfer to Mahoning County.
Poisoning alleged
YOUNGSTOWN -- A complaint that a 15-year-old girl put rat poison in chocolate milk to kill her grandmother at their Gypsy Lane house has been turned over to the police department's juvenile division.
The grandmother, 64, gave police a gallon container of chocolate milk, a glass with suspected rat poison residue and a box of rat poison when they arrived at 8:45 p.m. Wednesday.
The girl told police that she hates her grandmother but denied putting poison in the milk.
The teenager was turned over to an uncle who lives on the East Side.
The uncle told police that the milk was at least a week old when he drank some Tuesday and he thought maybe there was mold or mildew in it.
He said he just shook it and put it back into the refrigerator.
Reports don't say if the grandmother drank the milk.
Township cleanup
NEW SPRINGFIELD -- Springfield Township trustees announced that the annual township cleanup will be May 1-2. Residents should bring large items to the large trash receptacles at the township's three fire stations.
For free appliance or metal pickup, call R.G. Recycling.
Tires will be accepted from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 1 at fire station No. 3. Cost is 50 cents per car tire and 75 cents for larger tires.
Panel seeks members
HUBBARD -- Hubbard Township is looking for residents to serve on its zoning board of appeals.
No qualifications are needed.
The board approves or denies zoning variances, conducts public hearings on issues, and rules on appeals of zoning regulations.
Submit names to Trustee Jon Dowell, 2600 Elmwood Drive Ext., Hubbard 44425, or trusteedowell@hotmail.com.
Free gun safety kits
McDONALD -- The police department is distributing free firearms safety kits to village residents from 3 to 9 p.m. todayat Roosevelt Elementary. Police Chief Lou Ronghi said the 100 kits, which include a gunlock, are being provided by Project Child Safe, a nationwide child safety program.
Memorial scholarship
COLUMBIANA -- The family of Patricia Hura has established a scholarship in her memory. Columbiana school officials said Columbiana High School seniors can apply for the $1,000 scholarship, which will be given this spring and annually thereafter.
The scholarship is through the alumni association, and the Hura family will select the winner each year. Hura was Columbiana superintendent from January 2002 until her death from cancer in October 2003. She also had been a director at Trumbull County Career & amp; Technical Center, principal at Champion Middle School and a member of the Canfield school board.
CVB money at issue
WARREN -- The lawyer for Trumbull County commissioners has requested a meeting with the county convention and visitors bureau board to discuss returning $200,000 that has accumulated in its board's bank account over several years.
In a letter last month, first assistant prosecutor James Misocky threatened to sue the convention board if the money was not returned to a county-controlled account.
Ohio presidents
NILES -- Dr. George Knepper, a retired University of Akron professor, will present a program on President William McKinley and other Ohio presidents beginning at 2 p.m. Feb. 21 in the Clayman Community Room of the McKinley Birthplace Home and Research Center.
Knepper's specialty is Ohio history, and he is the author of numerous books and articles.
For information, call Patrick Finan, director of the McKinley Memorial Library, at (330) 652-1704 ext. 204.
College fair at school
YOUNGSTOWN -- Youngstown Christian School announces its first College Fair, to be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday in the gymnasium of the school, 4401 Southern Blvd. Eleven schools from Ohio and Pennsylvania will be represented. They include Christian, secular and business colleges, an art institute and a culinary institute.
Area high school students and their families are encouraged to attend.
For more information call (330) 788-8088.