Heart program planned

September 25, 2007 at 2:00a.m.

HERMITAGE, Pa. — Dr. Maninder S. Bedi, Sharon Regional Hospital's new electrophysiology specialist, is presenting a program on “Defibrillators and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy” at 1 p.m. Friday at the hospital’s new Diagnostic and Imaging Center, 2435 Garden Way, Hermitage. A light lunch will be provided.

For more information or to register for Friday's program, call (724) 983-5518 or (800) 346-7997.

Scrap tire drop-off

HOWLAND — The township will conduct a scrap tire drop-off for township residents from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 1-5. A maximum of eight passenger tires with rims removed can be dropped off at the public works department, 3600 N. River Road. For more information, call (330) 856-4037.

Genocide awareness

YOUNGSTOWN — The Genocide Awareness Project, a photo-mural exhibit that compares genocide conflicts with abortion, will be on the Youngstown State University campus Oct. 3 and 4. The display, sponsored by the YSU College Republicans, will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day outside DeBartolo Hall. The display includes 20 6-foot-by-13-foot panels that depict the similarities between historical forms of genocide such as Rwanda, Sudan and Nazi Germany to abortion.

“Though we realize the exhibit presents disturbing images, it is our goal to present the issue of abortion in a context most people do not normally think about,” said Alex Mangie, president of the YSU College Republicans.

Marijuana seized

BRACEVILLE — The Trumbull Ashtabula Geauga Law Enforcement Task Force and Ohio State Highway Patrol confiscated 125 marijuana plants in Braceville Township and three in Mesopotamia Township.

Sgt. Jeff Orr, TAG spokesman, said the OSP airplane spotted the plants about a week ago in two cornfields. The plane and TAG officials on the ground went to the locations Monday to seize them.

Orr said the agency would be going to Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to obtain a destruction order so that the plants could be burned.

No suspects have been identified. It appears the property owners were unaware of the plants, Orr said.

The Braceville location is near the Ohio Turnpike at state Route 303. The Mesopotamia location is just north of the village square near Donley Road.

Marijuana plants have a street value of about $1,000 each.

Sentenced for felonies

MERCER, Pa., — Two Trumbull County residents were sentenced recently in Mercer County Common Pleas Court.

Joseph Emerich, 23, of Stevenson Road, Masury, Ohio, was sentenced to three to 23 months in jail followed by two years’ probation for felony criminal trespass. On July 23, 2006, he broke into a building on Smith Avenue, Sharon, intending to commit a crime, court records say.

Tia Keck Karl, 27, of Ohio Avenue, McDonald, Ohio, was placed on three years’ probation for felony access device fraud. Between November 2002 and February 2003, court documents state, Karl used two credit cards without the owners’ permission to purchase $5,325 worth of merchandise in 23 transactions at businesses in Hermitage and Pymatuning Township.

Austintown house fire

AUSTINTOWN — A house fire caused $76,000 in damage at 138 N. Beverly Ave.

No one was hurt, said the township fire department.

The house, owned by Tom Opatken, caught fire around 1:20 a.m. Monday. The cause is under investigation.

Armed robbery

AUSTINTOWN — A 22-year-old Mineral Ridge man was robbed of his wallet at gunpoint at a business on Canfield-Niles Road at 10:06 p.m. Saturday, according to police.