Boy hurt in car accident

Boy hurt in car accident
WAMPUM, Pa. -- A 5-year-old boy was flown by helicopter to St. Elizabeth Health Center on Sunday morning after being ejected from one of two cars that collided on Main Street, where both drivers reside. Robert Charles Shrock Jr., whose driver's license was suspended, was southbound at a high rate of speed, failed to negotiate a bend in the road at 10:44 a.m., went left of center and hit a northbound car driven by Steven H. Fleeson, whose driver's license was expired, Pennsylvania State Police said. Fleeson was treated at Ellwood City Hospital. The 5-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl were both ejected from the car Fleeson was driving. The 3-year-old was not injured. Shrock, who was not injured, was charged with causing an accident involving injury while not properly licensed, careless and reckless driving, going left of center and excessive speed.
Youngstown man facesfireworks charge
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 37-year-old city man faces a charge of illegal possession and sale of fireworks after police stopped the van he was driving in the 900 block of Canfield Road and confiscated the large boxes of fireworks they said it contained Sunday afternoon. Paul D. Sherl, of Hermosa Drive, was arrested on the charge after police stopped him at 3:22 p.m. based on a tip that a man was driving around in a blue van with flames painted on it and trying to sell fireworks. Police also took $825 in cash from Sherl.
Ellwood City mancharged in robbery
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- A 25-year-old Ellwood City man was jailed in lieu of $40,000 bond after being charged with the robbery of a jewelry store. Lodged in Lawrence County Jail was Andrew Domenick Boots, who was charged with stealing $6,219 worth of jewelry from King's Jewelry, Union Square, Union Township. He was arrested at 5:42 p.m. Saturday as he tried to leave the store in a vehicle, Pennsylvania State Police said.
Chase ends in arreston city's North Side
YOUNGSTOWN -- A city man faces charges of aggravated robbery, resisting arrest, failing to comply with the order of a police officer and obstructing official business after a Sunday morning episode at the Rescue Mission that led to a police chase. Donald Hudson, 29, of Cameron Avenue, faces the robbery charge after a man said Hudson demanded money and pulled a handgun on him at 9:23 a.m. The victim threw $30, his watch and cellular phone on the ground, but recovered these items as Hudson walked away. Police arrived at the mission at 962 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. and began chasing Hudson as he drove away. They later found Hudson's vehicle in the 3100 block of Fifth Avenue, and Youngstown and Liberty police arrested Hudson on Gypsy Lane after a foot pursuit on Stambaugh Golf Course.
Recycling phone books
WARREN -- Old phone books may be dropped off for recycling until the end of the month at a container installed in the parking lot of Wal-Mart on Elm Road.
The collection program is sponsored by Sprint and the Geauga-Trumbull Solid Waste Management District.
Group helps out troops
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A group that has shipped soldiers much-needed T-shirts and socks that absorb sweat and make the Iraqi heat more bearable plans to form a nonprofit group that would pool the efforts of people across the state or country to offer more soldiers the same comforts.
The group, Operation Troop Appreciation, began in March when 29-year-old Kristen Holloway heard that a friend's brother was being sent to Iraq along with 116 other members of the 759th Military Police Company of the Pennsylvania National Guard.
"We are all at war, but here in America we're living the same as we did before 9/11," said Holloway. "I felt I wasn't doing enough -- as a nation we're not doing enough -- to acknowledge the sacrifice of our troops."
Holloway collected money from relatives and friends from the University of Pittsburgh's business school to buy and send Under Armor T-shirts and socks to the entire battalion to help them manage the 120-degree Iraqi summer.
The group has also sent similar care packages to other Pennsylvania National Guard Units and plans to send packages to a West Virginia Army National Guard Unit.
The group has asked the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status, which organizers said could be granted as soon as the end of the year.