OHIO

OHIO

Cleveland police say 2-year-old shot in foot

CLEVELAND — Authorities say a 2-year-old has been shot in the foot.

Police say the toddler, her mother and her mother’s boyfriend were outside Saturday night when a silver or gray Buick pulled up and the car’s passenger began arguing with the boyfriend.

Police say the passenger fired at least two shots at the boyfriend, and one struck the child. Police say no one else was injured.

The driver of the car and the passenger sped off.

The child was taken to Rainbow Babies And Children’s Hospital in Cleveland.

Police would not release the name of the victim or her mother.

Times tough for disabled seeking employment

HAMILTON — The weak economy is especially hard on people with disabilities looking for work, who face unemployment rates many times higher than the state average.

With so many people out of work, even entry-level jobs such as bagging groceries are hard to find.

Andrew Callsen, 21, who has a form of autism, says he’d rather work than take government assistance, but openings are few in the county with 10.6 percent unemployment.

“I want to have a job because I want to pay back society for all of the stuff they have given me,” said Callsen, who has Asberger’s syndrome.

Callsen, who lives in Madison Township in Butler County, is working with Goodwill Easter Seals Miami Valley, hoping to land a job in the horticultural field.

The national unemployment rate is 9.4 percent, but U.S. Census data puts that figure at more than 62 percent for those with disabilities.

Ohio’s unemployment rate jumped to 11.2 percent in July, the highest in a quarter century.

PENNSYLVANIA

Undercover Pittsburgh officers shoot man in leg

PITTSBURGH — Authorities say undercover narcotics officers in Pittsburgh shot a suspect in the leg after he tried to rob them during a drug purchase.

Police say 29-year-old Omar Pryor pointed a gun at the head of one of the officers and tried to rob him around 8:40 p.m. Saturday.

The detective backed away and then told the man he was under arrest.

Police say Pryor opened fire; the officers shot back, hitting him in the leg.

Pryor was taken to the hospital and charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault and firearms violations.

Police say a second man who had arranged for the drug buy was also arrested.

Authorities say that 22-year-old Anthony Davis is charged with criminal conspiracy to commit robbery.

Police: 1 person killed in small-plane crash

EFFORT — State police say one person has been killed in a small plane crash in northeastern Pennsylvania.

Trooper Bryon Dickson says the accident happened Sunday morning near a small airport in Chestnuthill Township, Monroe County.

The plane crashed behind a home near the Pegasus Air Park.

Dickson says the call came in shortly before 10 a.m.

He says police believe the plane was some kind of experimental aircraft and that it appeared to be a one-seater.

The Federal Aviation Administration is heading to the scene to investigate.

1 killed, 1 injured in fall from Philly balcony

PHILADELPHIA — A man is dead and a woman is critically injured after they fell several stories from a downtown Philadelphia balcony.

Police say the accident happened at an apartment in the city’s upscale Rittenhouse Square neighborhood around 3 a.m. Sunday.

Investigators say the two fell after a railing that they were leaning on gave way.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman is in critical condition at a downtown hospital.

Their names have not been released.

WEST VIRGINIA

Historic Wheeling trolley finds new life in Maine

WHEELING — An 85-year-old Wheeling trolley is again carrying passengers, only this time at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Museum Vice President John Middleton says the former Wheeling Traction Co. car No. 639 is part of the museum’s collection of 250.

The restored trolley is a “curved-side” car built by the Cincinnati Car Co. in 1924. It was used to carry passengers in Wheeling until 1948.

Associated Press