Cars hit by bullets

Cars hit by bullets
HADLEY, Pa. -- Pennsylvania State Police said two vehicles traveling on a section of Pa. Route 358 in Perry Township were hit by gunfire within minutes of each other. Police said Clyde Roberts Jr. of Grove City was westbound on Route 358 around 8:15 p.m. Saturday and was just west of Clarks Mills when the rear hatch of his car was struck by a bullet.
Linda Tuzynski of Clarks Mills was westbound in the same area 30 minutes later when her car also was struck by a bullet, police said.
Anyone with information about either shooting is asked to contact the state police at (724) 662-6162.
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.
Funds for family
MERCER, Pa. -- A fire relief fund has been set up at Sky Bank to help the Philip Erdos family recover from a fire that destroyed their home on Lamor Road in Jefferson Township. A wood-burning stove was blamed for causing the fire shortly after noon Saturday.
John Bender, a friend of the family, established the Philip Erdos Family Fire Fund. The family of eight lost everything in the blaze and has been staying at a local hotel since the fire. Bender said the fund is designed to help them get back on their feet.
Contributions can be made at any Sky Bank office, he added.
Home burglarized
HERMITAGE, Pa. -- Police said cash, jewelry and prescription drugs were the targets of a thief who entered a mobile home in the 5000 block of Virginia Road between noon and 5 p.m. Tuesday while the residents were away.
Police said entry was gained through an unlocked door.
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.
Stolen off truck
SALEM -- Someone stole chrome, 20-inch wheels and tires from a 2004 Dodge Ram pickup truck parked at Patterson Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep Inc., 1965 N. Ellsworth Ave., Perry Township police reported.
Police were notified of the crime about 12:24 p.m. Wednesday.
The stolen items are worth about $4,017, police said.
Defibrillators on I-80
WEST MIDDLESEX, Pa. -- The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, the American Heart Association and state legislators want to make Interstate 80 safer in Pennsylvania. They are placing automated external defibrillators at safety areas along the highway, and one of them has been installed at the I-80 eastbound rest area near the Ohio line in Shenango Township.
The defibrillators use an electric charge to restart a heart that is beating irregularly or has stopped beating because of a heart attack.
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 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 on Tuesday and he thought maybe there was mold or mildew in it.
He said he just shook it and put it back in the refrigerator. Reports don't say if the grandmother drank the milk.