Youngstown 2010 kudos

Youngstown 2010 kudos
YOUNGSTOWN -- The city's 2010 plan is getting more national attention. The plan was part of a story featured in Wednesday editions of USA Today, titled "As older cities shrink, some reinvent themselves."
Last week, the American Planning Association picked Youngstown 2010 as the winner of its 2007 National Planning Excellence Award for Public Outreach.
The plan outlines a vision for revitalizing the city.
A recent article in The New York Times Magazine lauded the plan as one of the 74 best ideas in a variety of topics. Formulation of the plan involved input from 5,000 people and a marketing and public education campaign.
Drugstore robbed
BOARDMAN -- Police are investigating an armed robbery at 4:29 p.m. Thursday at Brown's Drug Store and Gift Shop, 5106 Southern Blvd. Police said a man in his 20s, armed with a black handgun, stole about 3,000 worth of OxyContin pills. The man fled west toward Market Street. No one was injured.
Man remains missing
YOUNGSTOWN -- James Higham of Youngstown will have been missing five years on Jan. 3, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Alexandria, Va., is asking for the public's help in locating him.
Higham's photo is shown age-progressed to 20 years. He was 16 when he went missing. He is biracial. Higham is white and Asian. He has a mole on his right cheek near his nose, and he may dye his hair another color. Higham's nickname is Jimmy.
The public is urged to call (800) THE-LOST (800) 843-5678) with any information they have concerning Higham's disappearance or his current whereabouts. Calls are kept confidential and may be made anonymously.
Sentenced in robbery
YOUNGSTOWN -- James Morar Jr., 36, of East Midlothian Boulevard, will serve two years in prison for the July 7 robbery of the East Wind Chinese Fast Food restaurant on Market Street. Morar pleaded guilty to a charge of robbery in October and was sentenced Thursday by Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. Morar was given credit for the 175 days he's spent in jail since his arrest in the case.
South Side man shot
YOUNGSTOWN -- DewaylonR. Bruton of Hillman Street, shot in the right thumb, lower back and left leg, was in satisfactory condition late Thursday at St. Elizabeth Health Center.
Bruton, 22, told police he was shot somewhere on West Glenaven Avenue late Wednesday night. He made it to a house in the 500 block of West Warren Avenue, and residents there called police. At the hospital, police were given eight packaged-for-sale rocks of suspected crack cocaine that had been found on Bruton.
The crime scene was found in the 500 block of West Glenaven, where police collected 22 shell casings in the street and between two houses that had been fired from three guns.
E. coli concerns
SHARON, Pa. -- Pennsylvania health officials say they do not believe the E. coli infection that caused the death of a Mercer County child will affect anyone else.
Richard McGarvey, spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Health, said Thursday all doctors and hospitals in the county were alerted after the child, who officials are not identifying, died last weekend.
There have been no new cases since the child was first diagnosed a few weeks ago, he said. McGarvey said they have not been able to pinpoint the origin of the E. coli infection, but testing did reveal it was not the same strain as those affected in other parts of the country from spinach and food from Taco Bell. He said the child was younger than 10.