ALA. FUGITIVE CAPTURED

Ala. fugitive captured
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 33-year-old Alabama man wanted in a double homicide by the Shelby County Sheriff's Department in Birmingham, Ala., was apprehended at 1 a.m. Thursday in the 1600 block of Erie Street after a 37-hour manhunt, said Peter J. Elliott, U.S. marshal based in Cleveland. Roosevelt Ware Jr., who has family and friends in Youngstown, was taken to the Mahoning County Jail to await extradition to Alabama. He was apprehended by members of the U.S. marshals fugitive task force and Youngstown police with assistance from the FBI/Mahoning Valley Violent Crimes Task Force. Ware is accused of shooting a man and a woman to death April 1.
Explosion victim ID'd
GUSTAVUS -- The Trumbull County coroner's office has identified the mechanic killed when a tractor tire exploded as Joshua Surber, 24, of 33951 state Route 83, Millersburg, in Holmes County. Surber was working for a company changing the tire Wednesday afternoon on the Wakefield Creek Road dairy farm of Dave Hall. Dr. Jeffrey Bedlion, Johnston Township Fire Department medical director, said the tire, six feet in diameter, was off the tractor when it exploded. Dr. Bedlion said Surber was pronounced dead at the scene after suffering multiple injuries from the explosion.
Check 'N Go robbed
WARREN -- Police were searching for an armed man who robbed a check-cashing service at North Road and U.S. Route 422 on Thursday morning and fled on foot. A 5-foot-11-inch-tall, thin man with a mole on his chin, wearing a gray Philadelphia Eagles hoodie and carrying a black handgun, robbed Check 'N Go, 2000 North Road S.E., of a large amount of cash around 10:10 a.m., police said. The robbery occurred near the boundaries of Warren, Niles and Howland. The robber also took the establishment's surveillance videotape, police said.
Solicitation charges
YOUNGSTOWN -- After watching a woman described as a known prostitute "conduct her business" on the South Side late Wednesday night, police arrested Barbara J. Walter of North Meridian Road and John Pascarella of Boardman, reports show. They were taken into custody on West Indianola Avenue after Walter got into Pascarella's Dodge Neon, police said. Each was charged with loitering to engage in solicitation and released from the jail on a court summons. Pascarella, 29, of Shelby Road, was arraigned Thursday in municipal court and will be back in court May 12. Walter, 44, was expected to be arraigned today.
Motorcyclist killed
CENTER TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Duane Lucas, 61, of Hilliards, Pa., died early Thursday from injuries he sustained Wednesday afternoon when his 2003 Kawasaki motorcycle struck the front bucket and swing arm of a farm tractor on Pa. Route 8 at Muddy Creek Drive in Butler County, according to Pennsylvania State Police Butler barracks. Troopers said Lucas was traveling north on state Route 8 when the tractor, traveling east on Muddy Creek, pulled into the path of the motorcycle at the intersection. The tractor driver, John McCandless, 72, of Butler was not injured. Lucas was flown by helicopter to Allegheny General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:15 a.m. Thursday.
DUI group retrained
GOSHEN -- Members of the Mahoning County Operating Vehicle Impaired Task Force participated in refresher training Thursday afternoon to enhance skills needed in the detection and prosecution of impaired drivers. The training at the Goshen Police District on West South Range Road included instruction via a mock trial followed by practice of detection skills, according to Tracy Styka, task force coordinator. These police departments participated: Youngstown, New Middletown, Goshen, Canfield, Beaver, Smith and Jackson townships, Youngstown State University and Mill Creek MetroParks.
Seat-belt drive award
MINERAL RIDGE -- Weathersfield Township Police Department is one of five area departments that received an equipment award for participating in the statewide seat-belt drive. The township department received a new Doppler radar unit valued at $450. Police Chief Joseph Consiglio said the department plans to again participate in the "Click It or Ticket" seat-belt campaign May 2 to June 4.