Moonda shooter at Atlanta penitentiary

Moonda shooter
at Atlanta penitentiary

The man who admitted he shot and killed a Hermitage, Pa., urologist after plotting the crime with the wealthy doctor’s wife has been moved from a jail in Ohio and is now incarcerated at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta.

Damian Bradford, 26, of Monaca, Pa., was being held at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center in Hubbard.

Bradford was sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison for the crime that claimed the life of Dr. Gulam Moonda, 69. The shooting took place on the Ohio Turnpike in May 2005.

Bradford reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors and testified against his former lover, Donna Moonda. She received a life sentence.

OSHP seeks truck

BROOKFIELD — The Ohio State Highway Patrol is still asking for the public’s help in finding a Ford F-150 pickup truck involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash Aug. 16 in Brookfield Township.

The patrol said the truck is a 1997 to 2003 model that is red or maroon. It has a sticker of a rebel flag across the rear window and damage to the lower portion of the driver’s side panel. It has Mickey Thompson aluminum rims.

The crash killed Michael D. Brown, 38, of Youngstown. He was driving his motorcycle west on state Route 82 shortly after 10 p.m. when a pickup traveling southbound on Collar Price Road drove into Brown’s path.

Anyone with information is asked to call the patrol at (330) 898-2311.

Photo contest dates

EAST LIVERPOOL — There is still time to enter the photography contest being sponsored by the Beaver Creek Wildlife Education Center in conjunction with Harvest Days at Beaver Creek State Park that will be held Oct. 6 and 7. All photos must have been taken in Beaver Creek State Park, and photos entered in the 2006 contest are not eligible.

All photos must be 8 by 10 inches and matted to no more than 11 by 14 inches. The two categories for the photos are “Nature” and “People in Beaver Creek State Park.” The entry fee is $5 per photo with a limit of three photos per person. Prizes will be awarded in three divisions: children, teen and adult.

Entries may be dropped off at the Beaver Creek Wildlife Education Center, Echo Dell Road from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday or Sept. 8, from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday or Sept. 9, noon to 4 p.m. Monday (Labor Day) and from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 7. The deadline for all photos will be Sept. 9. All photos will be on display in the meeting room at the Beaver Creek Wildlife Education Center during Harvest Days.

For more information, call (330) 385-2442.

Restaurant robbery

WARREN — City police are looking for two masked men who robbed the Chicken Coop Restaurant, 1805 Parkman Road, Tuesday night.

Two female employees told police they were taking the trash out the back door shortly after 9 p.m. when confronted by two men — one wearing a red bandanna over his face and brandishing a handgun and the other wearing a black ski mask. The women were ordered to the floor.

They told police the thieves demanded the keys to the safe, but the employees told them they didn’t have the keys. The thieves also ripped the phone line from the building.

They took about $200 from the office and drove off in one of the employee’s 1997 Buick Skylark with a yellow “child on board” sign in the rear window.

Raising funds for school

NILES — Summit Academy Warren Campus will be at Sam’s Club, 5555 Youngstown-Warren Road, collecting box tops from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday. Sam’s Club and Box Tops have partnered to make this possible.

All funds raised with this program go back to the students. The goal is $500 worth of box tops. When customers leave the store volunteers will clip the tops from their boxes. Customers may also bring box tops from home.

State awards grant

SHARON, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development has awarded $400,000 to the Community Action Partnership of Mercer County to assist neighborhoods targeted for revitalization in Farrell and Sharon.

The grant is provided through the state’s Elm Street Program, which provides assistance to residential and mixed-use areas close to central business districts through a neighborhood renewal strategy.