Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Shooting threat reported
AUSTINTOWN -- Police are investigating a report that a Youngstown teen with a gun threatened to shoot a Washington Square Drive teen at 11 p.m. Monday.
The Washington Square Drive teen told police he was at his girlfriend's apartment, also on Washington Square Drive, when the Youngstown teen, of East Auburndale Avenue, threatened to shoot him. Police came to the apartment, took statements and left.
Officers also were called to the Washington Square Drive teen's apartment about 1 a.m. today after the teen was involved in a fight with his girlfriend and his sister. That also is under investigation.
Issue 2 discussion
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Southern Boulevard Block Watch has invited Mahoning County commissioners and candidates for commissioner to their next meeting to explain their stances on Issue 2, the half-percent sales tax renewal on the Nov. 2 ballot. The meeting is 7 p.m. Wednesday at St. Dominic's Parish Center, 3403 Southern Blvd.
Motorcyclist charged
WEATHERSFIELD -- A 23-year-old Mineral Ridge man whose motorcycle collided with a Weathersfield police car has been arrested on traffic charges related to the crash. The Ohio State Highway Patrol arrested Edward J. May of Austintown-Warren Road on charges of driving under the influence and failure to yield from a private drive. The crash happened Aug. 21 on Depot Road. May spent several days in St. Elizabeth Health Center after the crash. May is to appear in Niles Municipal Court on Thursday for an arraignment.
2 charged in forged check
HUBBARD -- Two men are charged in connection with forging a check and cashing it. Timothy Fulton, 29, of Jacobs Road, is in the Trumbull County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bond on a charge of forgery. He appeared Monday in Girard Municipal Court with a preliminary hearing scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. John Zumrick, 35, of South Bridge Street, Struthers, was charged with forgery and passing a bad check, said Detective Robert Altier. He is in the Mahoning County Jail. Altier said the men are accused of taking Fulton's mother's check and cashed it for $1,000. There are more checks that haven't been returned.
Professor's space talk
YOUNGSTOWN -- Space veteran Al Sacco, now a professor of engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, will visit Youngstown State University.
Sacco, whose visit is part of an American Chemical Society tour, will deliver a speech titled "Be An Astronaut: See the World -- What It's Really Like" at 7 p.m. Oct. 29 in Room B031 in Cushwa Hall.
He will recount his 16-day trip on the space shuttle Columbia and include a visual tour of his training, launch and flight. He will also discuss research opportunities at NASA, his experiments in zero gravity crystal growth and future NASA projects.
A dinner with Sacco in Kilcawley Center on the YSU campus will be held before his presentation. The public is invited. Call (330) 847-2284 for details.
Darfur and genocide
YOUNGSTOWN -- "Darfur and the Politics of Genocide" will be presented by Dr. Eric Reeves, professor of English language and literature at Smith College at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Ohio Room of Kilcawley Center at Youngstown State University.
The United Nations estimates more than 1.5 million people have been driven from their homes in the Darfur region of western Sudan and up to 50,000 people killed by fighting, disease and famine.
Reeves has worked as a researcher and consultant to numerous human rights and humanitarian organizations working in Sudan. His writings on Sudan have appeared in numerous newspapers across the United States.
The free lecture is sponsored by the YSU Judaic and Holocaust Studies Program and co-sponsored by the YSU history and African Studies departments, the William B. and Hilda Clayman Endowment, the Frances and Lillian Schermer Charitable Trust and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Youngstown.