Trumbull fair board has new members

Trumbull fair boardhas new members
BAZETTA -- Richard R. Roscoe of Gustavus was the top vote-getter at Trumbull County Fair Board elections Saturday.
Eight candidates ran for five seats on the fair board. A total of 200 votes were cast, officials say. Seats on the board have three-year terms.
Roscoe, fair board president for the past four years, received 172 votes. Other successful candidates were incumbent Jack Lammers of Hartford with 138 votes; incumbent Terry Evans of Cortland, 130 votes; Ray Testa of Warren, 124 votes; and Rich Houk of Newton Falls, 115 votes.
Unsuccessful candidates were incumbent Don Urcheck, Craig Gernentz and Melvin Liddle.
Shots fired at officers
YOUNGSTOWN -- Someone fired at least two shots at police officers making a traffic stop on the North Side early Sunday, though nobody was hit.
Police were responding to a call just before 2 a.m. on Lora Avenue about gunfire coming from a party where there were a number of teenagers.
Officers heard several shots when they arrived and stopped a vehicle nearby with six people in it. Officers said that during the stop they heard at least two shots whistle past them from behind, hitting a tree.
A woman at a Lora Avenue home later told police a 17-year-old youth fired a gun in the house near several other people, then fired shots at the officers from the porch.
Police: Man ran into wife
YOUNGSTOWN -- A man angry that his wife wouldn't give him money to buy beer ran her down with his van, police say.
Police charged Kevin Burkey, 40, of Youngstown-Poland Road, Struthers, with felonious assault. He remained in the Mahoning County jail this morning.
Police said Burkey was at a gas station-store on Youngstown-Poland Road about 9:30 p.m. and wanted to buy beer. His wife, Debra, told police that she wouldn't give him money for the beer and that she got out of the van.
Burkey became angry and accelerated the van, hitting his wife and knocking her unconscious, then fled the scene, witnesses told police. Police arrested him later at his home.
Debra Burkey was treated at St. Elizabeth Health Center.
Theft from office
YOUNGSTOWN -- The sheriff's department is investigating a break-in over the weekend at a Mahoning County office.
Burglars broke into the building at 815 Industrial Road that houses the county's facilities management office, said Maj. Michael Budd. Stolen were computer equipment and a white 1990 Chevrolet truck marked "facilities management," he said.
The theft was discovered by county workers about 7 a.m. today, he said.
Treated for gunshots
YOUNGSTOWN -- A city man was treated for two gunshot wounds after being shot in his car Saturday on the East Side.
Larry Blue, 24, of Parmalee Avenue, told police he was stopped at a sign at Victor and Atkinson avenues about 2:30 p.m. A car drove past and seven shots were fired into the driver's side, hitting him in the left arm and left leg.
Blue drove himself to his girlfriend's house, and she drove him to St. Elizabeth Health Center.
Blue told police he isn't sure who fired the shots, or why.