Halloween parade

Halloween parade
LEETONIA -- The annual Halloween parade sponsored by the volunteer fire department will form at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Elm and Main streets.
First, second and third prizes will be awarded in the following categories: most original, ages from birth to 7; most original, ages 8 to 15; hobos; clowns; cowboys, cowgirls and Indians; devils, witches, ghosts and goblins; television and Disney characters.
Firefighters will treat all participants to refreshments at the fire station.
Hearing continued to Jan.
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- A hearing in the civil suit filed by former New Castle Schools business administrator Roger Havey was continued to Jan. 4. The hearing was set for Monday before Lawrence County Common Pleas Court Judge J. Craig Cox.
Schools Solicitor Charles Sapienza asked for the continuance because he was due to start a trial in United States District Court on Monday. Havey, of Aliquippa, appealed his dismissal as schools business administrator by the school board. Havey was fired in 2003 after school board members determined he changed a state police document to eliminate a theft conviction in 1990 in Elk County.
Baby formula theft
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- A Niles man is accused of taking 42 containers of baby formula from Giant Eagle on Wilmington Road. Neshannock Township Police said Eric Baun, 27, of Deer Trail Road was arrested Thursday after they found Baun fighting with employees in the parking lot.
Police said they discovered the baby formula, valued at $571.56, on Baun. He was arraigned by District Justice Samuel Battaglia and released after posting $2,000 bond.
Open house at landfill
NEW SPRINGFIELD -- Waste Management Inc.'s Mahoning Landfill, state Route 617, will host an open house from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday.
The free community event will feature guided tours of the facility and a complimentary gift bag for each person attending. Refreshments will be served and participants can enter a raffle prize drawing and meet the staff of Waste Management's Mahoning Landfill.
For more information about the open house, call (330) 549-5357.
Former astronaut to speak
MEADVILLE, Pa. -- Former astronaut Dr. Albert Sacco will give a talk called "Be an astronaut: See the Word," at 7 p.m. Thursday in Ford Memorial Chapel at Allegheny College.
Sacco was a payload specialist on the space shuttle Columbia and also was principal investigator for some of the scientific experiments related to the International Space Station.
He is chairman of the George A. Snell Engineering Department and director of the center for advanced microgravity materials processing at Northeastern University in Boston.
Sacco's visit is sponsored by the Youngstown and Erie Sections of the American Chemical Society and is hosted by Chemii, the Allegheny chapter of student affiliates for the ACS. The talk is free and open to the public.
1998 Sebring stolen
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- Police said a 1998 Chrysler Sebring was stolen from McGrath Avenue sometime overnight from Sunday to Monday. Police said the owner left the keys inside the car when she arrived home at 11 p.m. Sunday. The car was gone when she returned outside at 1:30 p.m. Monday.
I-680 to temporarily close
YOUNGSTOWN -- A portion of Interstate 680 northbound will be closed from midnight tonight to 6 a.m. Wednesday as part of a project to upgrade and replace overhead signs and supports.
Motorists will be able to detour onto the Glenwood and Mahoning Avenue exit ramp, cross Edwards Street and return to I-680 via the northbound entrance ramp at that location.