Pet classes set

Pet classes set

HUBBARD — Katie Costello, an animal health technician, and founder of the therapy animal group K-9s for Compassion, will begin teaching animal behavior classes at the end of February at Hubbard Pet Resort on state Route 304.

Classes offered will include puppy preschool, basic obedience and therapy animal class. Call (330) 881-9979 for further information.

Dice player shot

YOUNGSTOWN — Brandon Owens, 24, of Lexington Avenue was shot twice in the stomach after an argument with a man he’d been playing dice with near Wick Park on the North Side, police said.

Owens told police the shooter chased him to the steps of a house in the 800 block of Ohio Avenue around 1:15 a.m. Tuesday and fired. Owens knocked on the door, and the resident called 911.

Two 9mm casings were found on the sidewalk near the house. Owens gave a description of the gunman to police while awaiting surgery at St. Elizabeth Health Center. His condition was not available.

Poland teen charged with falsification

BOARDMAN — A 17-year-old Poland boy who claimed he was robbed at a Midlothian Boulevard gas station last month has been charged with falsification.

The boy told police he stopped for gasoline about 9:15 p.m. Jan. 30 at Speedway. He said as he walked around the front of his car, a man wearing a ski mask and holding a gun approached and told him to empty his pockets.

Last week, though, the boy said in a written statement that he was held up on Boston Avenue in Youngstown.

On Monday, he admitted that the first statement wasn’t true. Township police told the boy to report the robbery to city police because that’s where the crime occurred and charged him in Mahoning County Juvenile Court with falsification, a misdemeanor.

The boy was released to his mother’s custody.

Library closed Friday

YOUNGSTOWN — The main branch of the Pubic Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County, 305 Wick Ave., Youngstown, will be closed all day Friday to prepare for the Literary Society Author Event featuring guest author, Adriana Trigiani. The event is sold out.

Man assaulted

WARREN — A 31-year-old Southington man reported being hit on the head with a handgun, hit several times with a broom handle, and having his cell phone taken while in a house on Oriole Avenue Southwest at 2 a.m. Tuesday. The man said he walked in the back door of the house to give someone a ride. A police report said he suffered severe cuts.

Assault in Warren

WARREN — A 25-year-old Warren man said he passed out in the driveway of his apartment early Monday morning after he was assaulted by a man with a gun who tried to rob him. The victim said a man wearing a black hoodie pulled up tight around his face came up from behind him while he was getting out of his car on Kenilworth Avenue Southeast between midnight and 2 a.m. He went to St. Joseph Health Center for treatment. He said he doesn’t know how long he was unconscious.