Giancola denied

Giancola denied
YOUNGSTOWN -- Judge Maureen A. Sweeney has denied a request to let Annette Giancola live with her brother in the city instead of in a group home.
The judge overruled on Monday a motion filed last week by Giancola's lawyer. Judge Sweeney, of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, noted that no documentation supporting the motion was submitted nor was an oral hearing requested.
Giancola drowned her 3-year-old twins, Jonathan and Rebecca, in the bathtub of their Canfield Township home in 1997. She was found innocent by reason of insanity and sent to a psychiatric hospital.
She was allowed to return to living in Mahoning County in May 2004.
West Side houses shot
YOUNGSTOWN -- Shots were fired at two occupied houses in the 1500 block of Manhattan Avenue around 3:45 a.m. Monday, police said. No injuries were reported. At least seven rounds hit the front of one house where a woman was sleeping on the living room couch. Her son and daughter were in bedrooms upstairs.
The motive may involve a cell phone the daughter found and returned to a man who then damaged her car, police said.
The second house on Manhattan was hit once, with the bullet going through the front window. Two bullets also penetrated windows of a pickup truck parked in the street.
Gas station robbed
YOUNGSTOWN -- A white blanket used to wrap either a rifle or shotgun was left at the Logan Gas Mart on Logan Avenue after a robbery Sunday morning, police said.
The robber, dressed in black jeans and a black hooded sweatshirt, unwrapped the long gun and placed the barrel through an opening in the bullet-resistant glass at the counter, demanding money and a carton of cigarettes.
The clerk handed over about $300, but the carton of cigarettes would not fit through the opening so the clerk began to push packs through. The robber took two packs, then fled on foot.
South Sider stabbed
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 25-year-old East Philadelphia Avenue man told police he was stabbed and robbed when he accepted a ride home late Sunday on the South Side. The victim said the driver pulled a knife after turning onto Cleveland Street from Glenwood Avenue.
The victim said he was stabbed in the right shoulder after giving up an undisclosed amount of cash from his pocket. The injured man ran to a porch on Cleveland to call police, and the robber drove off.
The victim was treated at St. Elizabeth Health Center.
Emergency management
VIENNA -- The Trumbull County Emergency Management Executive Board will meet at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Office Of Emergency Management at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport, 1453 Youngstown-Kingsville Road.
Robber hits BP station
AUSTINTOWN -- Police are looking for man who robbed the BP gas station at 5502 Mahoning Avenue on Saturday evening.
An armed robber entered the store about 9:40 p.m. and ordered an employee to empty the cash register, police report. The man tried to get the employee to open the safe, but she couldn't, the report said. The robber made her get on the floor and then fled with about $170.