Arson on North Side

Arson on North Side

YOUNGSTOWN — A deliberately set fire at 1514 Kensington Ave. at 3 a.m. Wednesday destroyed the vacant North Side house, the city fire department said.

The first and second floors were on fire, with the second-floor bathtub barely suspended on joists, when firefighters arrived.

Damage was set at $10,000, a total loss, and demolition recommended.

Firefighters returned to the same house on a call of a second fire around 10 a.m.

Civil service meeting

BOARDMAN — The Boardman Township Civil Service Commission meets at 10 a.m. today in the conference room at the township government center, 8299 Market St.

Police ID pedestrian fatally struck by car

LIBERTY — The Ohio State Highway Patrol Warren Post has released the name of the 51-year-old pedestrian killed by a car on Belmont Avenue Tuesday evening.

The post said Frank Coscarelli, who had no permanent address, was crossing the five-lane street when he was hit. He was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center, where he died of his injuries.

The state patrol said Coscarelli was at fault for the accident, and the driver, Nicholas R. Badila, 27, of Campbell, was not charged.

Badila was not injured in the accident, which took place south of Fairlawn Avenue.

Flu shot clinic Friday at Clear Channel

BOARDMAN — Mahoning County District Board of Health is offering a flu shot clinic from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday at Clear Channel Radio Stations, 7461 South Ave.

The cost of the flu shot for adults is $25. The cost for children 6 months to 18 years of age is $14.65.

Medicaid and Medicare recipients are asked to bring their cards so the cost of the shot can be billed.

Individuals with driver’s licenses are asked to bring them to the clinic.

Driver cited in Howland

HOWLAND — A Warren man was cited for operating a motor vehicle while impaired, striking another car and then backing into an unmarked Trumbull County Sheriff’s Department cruiser.

The accident happened around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday when Daniel Clutter, 38, was driving north on Elm Road and moved left of center, striking the other car, driven by Robert Soltesz, 45, of Youngstown, the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Southington Post said.

Clutter then tried to back up his car and struck the cruiser driven by Mike Yannucci of the sheriff’s department, the OSHP said.

Clutter was cited. No one was injured.

Patient dies after wandering from hospital

PITTSBURGH — An 89-year-old dementia patient, wearing just a gown and slippers, wandered out onto the roof of a hospital and died in the freezing overnight temperatures, police said.

A UPMC Montefiore hospital worker found Rose Lee Diggs, who had last been seen Tuesday evening, unresponsive on the roof at about 9:15 a.m. Wednesday. Overnight temperatures in Pittsburgh dipped into the 20s.

“Medical staff, when they found her, brought her back into the hospital and performed aggressive resuscitative procedures and were unable to revive her,” police Lt. Kevin Kraus said.

Kraus said there were no signs of foul play, but that police plan to consult with the district attorney about whether criminal charges are warranted relating to Diggs’ leaving the hospital unnoticed. Diggs was suffering from exposure when she was found, the hospital said in a statement.