Needle 4th-grader used to prick pupils was clean

Needle 4th-grader usedto prick pupils was clean
WARREN -- A needle used by a McGuffey Elementary fourth-grader last year to poke other pupils has come back clean.
Detectives said tests determined the hypodermic needle was clean.
Last November, several McGuffey pupils accused the boy, 9, of pricking them with the needle on the bus and the playground and in a restroom.
The boy was suspended from school but wasn't charged.
School contract extended
LIBERTY -- The township board of education and Liberty Association of School Employees have reached an agreement to extend their contract from Sept.1 through Aug. 31, 2005.
The extension announced jointly by Lawrence C. Prince, superintendent, and Robert Diroll, president of the Liberty Association of School Employees, includes no increase in base salary and a provision that current programs and staff will remain in place for the duration of the agreement.
The agreement was reached six months in advance of the expiration date.
The extension will provide educational stability and continuity for another school year, the officials said, despite the financial hardships placed on local school districts by the state funding formula.
The agreement was approved by the LASE membership at a meeting Feb. 26 with board approval at a meeting early today.
Innocent plea in shooting
WARREN -- A 24-year-old woman has pleaded innocent to charges of attempted murder, felonious assault and kidnapping.
Chinique Davenport of Quinn Street, Youngstown, was arraigned on the charges Thursday before Judge Andrew Logan of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.
She is being held in the Trumbull County jail in lieu of a $150,000 bond.
Prosecutors say that in May 2003, Davenport kidnapped Tim Wylind, no age available, of Lordstown, shot him and left him in a wooded area in Hubbard Township.
Vote set on Issue 2 grant
MINERAL RIDGE -- Weathersfield Township trustees will meet in special session at 9 a.m. Thursday to vote on who will be in charge of a $124,200 state Issue 2 grant the township is to receive.
The grant will help fund a safety upgrade to include repaving, ditch work and berm work on about a half-mile of Niles Carver Road, from Salt Springs Road to the Niles city limits at the railroad tracks.
The township's share of the project will be $55,000, which will come out of the general fund.
Project funds are to be awarded after July 1, township Administrator David Pugh said, adding work will begin this summer.
The resolutions to appoint who will be in charge of overseeing the project will include naming MS Consultants of Youngstown as project manager and James Stoddard, township trustee chairman, as chief executive.
Reservists to be deployed
VIENNA -- Twenty-eight Air Force reservists, 18 from the 910th Airlift Wing and 10 from Maxwell Air Force Base, are scheduled to leave Sunday afternoon from the Youngstown Air Reserve Station for a 90-day tour in Kyrgyzstan.
Free fingerprintingoffered for children
WARREN -- City police will offer free child fingerprinting and identification from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in council chambers in the Municipal Justice Building, 141 South St. S.E.
Firefighters will provide fire safety education while children wait for their turn to be fingerprinted.
Yoga class for adults
WARREN -- St. Joseph Health Center offers a seven-session Beginning Yoga class for adults Mondays from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. or 7 to 8:15 p.m. from March 8 to April 26.
The cost is $57.
Call (877) 700-4647 for more information and to register.
Liberty trustees meeting
LIBERTY -- Township trustees will have a special meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the township administration building.
Trustees will consider hiring two part-time clerical workers.
At 7 p.m., trustees will discuss two zoning matters.