1 killed, 1 hurt in crash

1 killed, 1 hurt in crash
SALEM -- A one-vehicle crash in Green Township killed a Salem teenager and injured another. The Canfield Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said Matthew Lanning, 16, of South Lundy Street was killed when he and driver Roger Mullet were ejected from a Kia minivan. Mullet was treated at St. Elizabeth Health Center. The patrol said neither teenager was wearing a seat belt. The crash occurred at 11:32 a.m. Friday on Egypt Road as Mullet was driving southeast at an unsafe speed, the patrol said. Mullet lost control, the minivan went off the right side of the road, overcorrected and went off the left side of the road, striking a mailbox and a tree, then overturned onto its right side.
Meander bridge work
AUSTINTOWN -- The Ohio Turnpike Commission plans to rehabilitate two bridges over Meander Reservoir. The contract for the work may be awarded later this month, a turnpike spokeswoman said. The lowest bid submitted was for nearly $3.1 million. The bridges, one eastbound and one westbound, begin about 2.5 miles east of the turnpike's 218 interchange at Interstate 80. They are about 500 feet long. The spokeswoman said the work will just rehabilitate the spans. No lanes will be added.
Drug trafficking charges
YOUNGSTOWN -- A judge set bond at $70,000 for 39-year-old David Venable of Oxford Street, who faces two charges of aggravated drug trafficking.
The Youngstown Police Vice Squad executed a search warrant Thursday at 143 Seneca St., where they found Venable carrying a bag of drugs and drug paraphernalia, reports show.
Police said they found 44 bundles of heroin and eight large bags of crack cocaine, along with a digital scale and a coffee grinder.
Municipal Judge Robert A. Douglas Jr. set bond at $35,000 for each charge.
Students to perform
GROVE CITY, Pa. -- Students from Grove City College's Acting and Directing class will present three plays next week in the Little Theatre of Pew Fine Arts Center on campus.
They will perform "The Dumb Waiter" by Harold Pinter and "Cagebirds" by David Campton at 6 p.m. Tuesday. The following evening, students will perform "Bus Stop" by William Inge at 6 p.m.
"The Dumb Waiter" chronicles two hired assassins who get an unusual job in a very unusual house.
"Cagebirds" features six women locked in a room, self-absorbed and having no thoughts of freedom. When a "wild one" is thrown into the cage, she stirs up ideas and ruffles feathers.
"Bus Stop" opens as a blizzard causes a bus to stop in a small town. The passengers must spend the night in a local diner, where relationships are developed and examined.
The performances are free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
Pa. rifle season wraps up
HARRISBURG (AP) -- Pennsylvania's rifle deer-hunting season wraps up at sundown today, but it will be about three months until officials know how the harvest compares with the 409,000 deer killed last season.
Pennsylvania Game Commission spokesman Jerry Feaser said Friday a final number probably won't be issued until mid-March.
Figures on license sales will be available next week, but two months ago they were running 8 percent below the previous year.
As of Friday morning, there had been 12 hunting-related shootings since rifle deer season began two weeks ago. Two were fatal -- one was self-inflicted -- and of the 10 nonfatal accidents, four were self-inflicted.
Last year, there were 19 shootings during the entire two-week season.
Although rifle deer season is ending, Pennsylvania allows other forms of deer hunting in parts of the state through the end of January.
Metal hits truck, kills man
WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) -- A piece of metal from equipment on a tractor-trailer came loose and sailed through the windshield of an oncoming pickup truck, striking the driver in the face and killing him, state police said.
Shawn M. Collingwood, 36, of Canonsburg, died instantly in the accident Thursday, investigators said.
Collingwood was driving south on Route 221 when the northbound tractor-trailer hauling mining equipment went around a sharp bend and the piece of metal came loose, Washington County Coroner Tim Warco said.
The piece of metal, the size of a brick, continued through the pickup truck's rear window and was found about 40 yards from where the truck came to rest, investigators said.