Pastor's wallet taken

Pastor's wallet taken
YOUNGSTOWN -- A female pastor at the Salvation Army building on Fruit Street told police that her wallet was taken out of her purse by a man who entered the office and asked for prayer Sunday night. The pastor and a witness, both suspicious of the man, had asked him to step outside the East Side building around 8:40 p.m. After the suspect left, the pastor checked her purse and found the wallet missing.
Woman injured at bar
AUSTINTOWN -- A woman was hurt after being hit in the head with a beer bottle at a township bar. A 46-year-old Petersburg, Ohio, woman told police that she was struck by a woman whom she knows.
She said she and her husband were at Gina's, 169 S. Four Mile Run Road, at 1:15 a.m. Sunday when the suspect approached them and began acting strangely. She told police they decided to leave, and while they were in the hallway at the bar, the suspect attacked her from behind. She was hit twice in the head with the bottle before her husband could stop the attack. The suspect fled. The victim was taken by ambulance to St. Elizabeth Health Center. The suspect, a 25-year-old Austintown woman, has not been charged.
3 charged with DUI
MERCER, Pa. -- Pennsylvania State Police in Mercer County made three driving-under-the-influence arrests during a sobriety checkpoint and "Roving DUI Patrol" this past weekend. In addition to the arrests, 16 cars were stopped, four traffic citations written and 15 warning issued. The checkpoint is part of the state police Checkpoint Strike Force Initiative designed to reduce alcohol-related traffic crashes through the use of sobriety checkpoints across the state each week.
Fire in trash bin
AUSTINTOWN -- A trash receptacle fire inside the building at Cubbison and Olfield Graphics at 380 Victoria Road did no damage to the building but may have damaged an expensive piece of machinery. The fire happened Sunday around midnight. Township Fire Chief Andrew Frost said the fire department is not sure yet why the contents of the trash bin ignited. He said there was no damage to the building, but a computerized machine that is used to cut metal has to be checked for damage. It's worth $250,000, he said. Frost said there was a lot of smoke in the building, and the sprinklers went off.
Man suffers head injury
WARREN -- A 47-year-old Warren man is in stable condition in St. Elizabeth Health Center after suffering a severe head injury. Police found Clayton G. Yoho of Greenlawn Avenue Northwest lying in the parking lot of an apartment building at Park Avenue and Porter Street here early Sunday with a severe head wound. He was taken by ambulance to St. Joseph Health Center and then to St. Elizabeth's. Police described him as incoherent and said he was unable to sign a police report because of his injury. Police listed the event as a possible felonious assault.
Man reports carjacking
AUSTINTOWN -- A man told township police he was abducted in the parking lot of the Gatsby at 54 Westchester Drive. The man said he was leaving the establishment Friday after meeting a friend there and playing pool about 11 p.m. In the parking lot, he was hit from behind while getting into his car, he told police. Two men, one with a gun, forced him into his car and drove him to the first exit for the Meander Reservoir off Interstate 76. There, he said, the suspects drove him around back roads before ordering him out in a heavily wooded area. The carjackers fled in his car, he told police. Police said his car was found on state Route 225 in Paris Township, where it was involved in a hit-and-run accident.
Discussion on Internet
CORTLAND -- Lakeview School District will conduct a presentation and discussion with parents about what teen-agers and younger children are finding on the Internet. The event will be at 7 p.m. May 3 at the high school auditorium. MySpace.com and lesser-known sites for children and adults will be examined.