NO INJURIES IN FIRE

No injuries in fire
YOUNGSTOWN -- A young couple and their 3-year-old son were uninjured in a fire at their home in the 100 block of South Jackson Street.
A report noted that the fire department responded at 6:17 p.m. Wednesday and extinguished the blaze in a second-floor bedroom. The fire started near an overloaded electric receptacle, the fire department said.
Charged with robbery
BOARDMAN -- A Midlothian Boulevard man was charged with robbery, accused of fighting with store security after shoplifting merchandise.
Police were called Wednesday afternoon to Value City Department Store, Boardman-Poland Road, where a shoplifter, later identified as Jerome J. Turner, 20, had fought with a security officer and fled the store.
A witness called police saying they had seen a man get into a red car in the store parking lot and lie in the back seat. Police checked the inside of red cars in the lot and found Turner on the floor of a Ford.
The security guard identified Turner, and Turner was arrested. He told police that while he tried to steal shorts from the store, he didn't assault the security officer.
He was taken to the Mahoning County jail.
Victim is critical
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 33-year-old Campbell man was in critical condition Thursday after surgery in St. Elizabeth Health Center, where he was taken after being shot.
The victim, Clint S. Rosa, who stopped police on patrol late Wednesday night on McGuffey Road at Lansdowne Boulevard, had blood on his face and upper part of his chest.
Rosa told police he had gone to sell a radio at a house on Bennington Avenue, where he got into an argument with another man and was shot. Rosa told police he could not identify the person who shot him.
Abducted man stable
WARREN -- A city man was in satisfactory condition in Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital on Thursday after being assaulted and abducted early that morning.
Richard Newbrough, of Nottingham Road Northwest, told police he was pistol-whipped by an assailant known to him, and then forced into a vehicle at gunpoint. He was then taken to Lovers Lane Northwest and beaten again, the police report said.
Newbrough was taken to the hospital at 2:45 a.m. by the Warren Township Fire Department.
$5,000 grant given
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Ohio Attorney General's Office gave $5,000 to Hope House Visitation Center to continue its efforts to help families develop healthy parent-child relationships.
Hope House on West Earle Avenue is a private, nonprofit organization that provides a safe, child-friendly environment for supervised visitation, custodial/noncustodial exchanges, and education on positive parent-child relationships.
The funding is made available through various charitable gambling settlements by the state, according to the attorney general's office.
Drug and gun charge
BOARDMAN -- Police charged a Youngstown man with drug trafficking and carrying a concealed weapon after a traffic stop.
An officer stopped the car driven by Jamar L. Spivey, 21, early Thursday, when a registration check determined that the registered owner had an expired driver's license.
Police said they found seven small plastic bags of suspected marijuana on Spivey. They also found two knives in the car. Spivey was released after posting bond.
Future cadets
U.S. Rep. Ted Strickland of Lisbon, D-6th, has announced that these area high school students from his district have been offered appointments to U.S. military academies: Anthony M. Galka, Poland, Merchant Marine Academy; Ben Hicks and Joshua Summer, both of Canfield, Military Academy at West Point; Bryan Watson, East Liverpool, Air Force Academy.
Flag unveiled
CANFIELD -- City council was presented with a new Tree City, USA flag at its meeting this week.
Nancy Brundage, secretary of the Canfield Parks, Recreation and Cemetery Board, presented the new flag for this year, Canfield's 25th year of participating in the program. The program is sponsored by the National Arbor Day Foundation.
To become a tree city, four criteria must be met: the city must have a board to oversee tree management; $2 per capita must be spent on trees; the city must have a tree ordinance; and the city must promote Arbor Day.