Gunfire injures man

Gunfire injures man
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 27-year-old man was wounded by gunfire on Idora Avenue during the weekend.
Jason Williams of Brentwood Avenue was released after treatment at Forum Health Beeghly Medical Park. Williams told police he was driving a car with two passengers in the 400 block of Idora when he heard four or five shots fired about 11:45 p.m. Saturday.
He was struck in the right arm. Police found a shell casing at the scene.
Opened fire on house
CAMPBELL -- Police say they have no suspects in a shooting in which 14 bullets struck a Jackson Street house.
Police said someone opened fire about 7 p.m. Saturday at the house. Two men inside at the time were not injured.
Girard levy meeting
GIRARD -- A levy committee for the construction of a new junior/senior high school will hold its first meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday in the high school library.
All Girard school district residents are invited to attend.
Purse theft reported
YOUNGSTOWN -- A city woman told police she was asleep on her living room couch with her two young children when she heard a loud commotion. She said she awoke to see her 13-year-old son chasing a man she recognized as a neighbor out of their house in the 100 block of North Evanston Avenue. The 13-year-old told police he came home around 11:30 p.m. Friday and found the neighbor, a 22-year-old man, standing in the living room holding his mother's purse. He said he chased the man out of the house but couldn't catch him.
Some credit cards, two birth certificates, some Valium pills and identification cards were taken from the purse.
Senate Bill 10 OK'd
HARRISBURG -- The Pennsylvania Senate has approved Senate Bill 10, legislation that would re-authorize a popular fire/EMS grant program for five years, said Pa. State Sen. Bob Robbins of Greenville, R-50th, a co-sponsor of the measure.
The bill is headed to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for consideration.
Since 2000, the General Assembly has regularly appropriated 25 million to the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency to provide grants to volunteer fire and EMS departments. This program is not guaranteed and has lapsed in the past, however.
The five-year authorization would set in place the mechanism to allow for funding on a steady basis, providing a safety net for local volunteer fire departments and ambulance corps, Robbins said.