Assault charges
Assault charges
YOUNGSTOWN -- Police charged John Platt, 42, of 97 E. Florida Ave., with three counts of felonious assault after his neighbor and her sisters were shot at.
Alicia Thompson of East Florida told police that Platt had been outside about 11:10 p.m. Friday threatening to shoot her and her dog and to blow up her car when she started it.
Thompson's sisters Tania and Tamara Thompson arrived. The three were on the porch when several shots were fired at them. No one was injured.
Police said they found a clip to a pistol in Platt's house but did not find the weapon.
Platt was also charged with a misdemeanor count of menacing.
Information for seniors
JOHNSTON -- Trumbull County commissioners will have an informational meeting at 7 p.m. April 4 at the Johnston Community Building, 4424 Greenville Road (state Route 88).
They will advise northern Trumbull County residents about the services that will be available with the proceeds of the senior citizens levy approved by voters in November 2005.
The session is targeted for residents living north of state Route 88 in the townships of Mesopotamia, Bloomfield, Greene, Gustavus, Kinsman, Farmington (including West Farmington village), Bristol, Mecca, Johnston and Vernon.
Among the speakers will be Barb Klingensmith, director of Country Neighbor, an Orwell-based service provider that was awarded 173,630 of the 2.6 million in annual funds to provide in-home services and home-delivered meals to the area.
Relay for Life fundraiser
ALLIANCE -- Dancing to Save Lives is the name of a charity invitational that the Mount Union College Dance Team will hold 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. next Sunday in the college gymnasium.
The goal is to collect donations for Relay for Life.
Four other schools will participate: Heidelberg, Hiram and Marietta colleges and Kennedy Catholic High School from Hermitage, Pa. The event is free and open to the public, though donations for Relay for Life are welcomed and appreciated.
First-aid, CPR classes
WARREN -- Trumbull County Red Cross will conduct first-aid classes from 6 to 10 p.m. April 19, May 17 and June 14; and a child and infant CPR class from 6 to 10 p.m. April 11, May 15 and June 13. The child and infant CPR class will teach care for life-theatening injuries, both conscious and unconscious choking and CPR for newborns through age 12.
Both classes will be at the Red Cross Chapter House, 661 Mahoning Ave., Warren. For more information or to register, call (330) 392-2551.
FBI academy graduate
YOUNGSTOWN -- Sgt. John Beshara, a corrections supervisor with the Mahoning County Sheriff's Department, has graduated from the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Va. Beshara, who was among 263 law enforcement officers to graduate this month, became a deputy sheriff in April 1989, a corporal in November 1993 and a sergeant in February 2002.
Diversity symposium
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. -- Westminster College Diversity Symposium will feature a lifestyles panel at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the McKelvey Campus Center Mueller Theater.
The panel will be moderated by Dr. Neal Edman, Westminster dean of student affairs, and includes: James Radnor and Reid Ahl, a same-sex, binational family; Connie McGinnis, mother of two adopted Chinese daughters; and Shannon Smithey, whose husband's family emigrated from Japan in the beginning of the 20th century and was interned during World War II.