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LOCAL

Warren shooting probed

WARREN — Detectives are investigating a shooting between two men at about 2 p.m. Sunday in the 700 block of Austin Avenue S.W.

Police said Darius Talley, 35, of the 600 block of West Park Avenue, and Dana Kelson, 35, of the 1100 block of Orlo Drive N.W., were involved.

Kelson was treated at Trumbull Memorial Hospital. Talley was also treated at Trumbull and then transferred, but police did not have further information.

Art Outreach Gallery expands its workshops

NILES — Due to the overwhelming success of its youth art programs, the Art Outreach Gallery at Eastwood Mall, 5555 Youngstown-Warren Road, is expanding its summer workshops and children’s programs.

The gallery is offering 55 workshops July 6-31. Included will be Yoga for Kids, language classes including Exploring French and American Sign Language, storytelling featuring Capt. McFinn and Ronald McDonald, recycled paper class, children’s eco-green classes, creative art and acting classes.

Workshops are designed for students 4 to 18 and will be conducted by area art educators and art-education students from Kent State University, Youngstown State University, the Art Institute of Boston and Capital University.

Because of donations from local foundations and community volunteers, the only cost to students will be a donation of a nonperishable food item for the Second Harvest Food Bank.

Space and supplies are limited. Registration forms can be downloaded at www.artoutreach.org, picked up at the Art Outreach Gallery or the Eastwood Mall Customer Service Center.

For more information, contact the mall office at (330) 652-6980 or Gail Stark, (330) 219-7833.

OHIO

Man leads troopers on highway chase

COLUMBUS — An Ohio man led state highway patrol troopers on a 100-mile chase with his wife and two children in his truck before he was apprehended.

The patrol says 43-year-old James Lewis of Columbus was charged Saturday with felony fleeing and failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer.

State Patrol Sgt. Darren Thomas says the pursuit began Saturday night on the Ohio Turnpike after Lewis’ wife reported being assaulted by her husband.

The patrol says the woman was able to slam on the brakes and pull the keys from the ignition more than an hour after the chase began. Thomas says Lewis fled on foot and was quickly captured.

The woman was treated for facial injuries. The children, ages 1 and 5, were not harmed.

PENNSYLVANIA

Old oil, gas wells still produce after decades

PITTSBURGH — Thousands of oil and gas wells, often dating back to the early years of the last century, dot the landscape in Pennsylvania, producing a small but steady flow over a period of decades — but often drawing opposition from residents.

In Allegheny County, for example, there are more than 1,400 relatively shallow “stripper wells” that produce less than 60,000 cubic feet of gas a day. Some were developed over the last three decades, but many others were drilled in the early 1900s for the glass and steel industries before houses, commercial districts and parking lots were built around them.

Such wells have a long life span in Pennsylvania because the densely packed sand and rock formations of the commonwealth release gas and oil deposits slowly.

Across the nation, stripper wells supplied almost 8 percent of the 23 trillion cubic feet of natural gas used in 2007 and 4 percent of the country’s daily 20.7 million barrel crude oil supply, according to a study last year by the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission.

Philly police officer wounded by gunfire

PHILADELPHIA — A police officer has been wounded by gunfire during an overnight patrol in North Philadelphia.

Philadelphia police spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore says 26-year-old Officer Ashley Hoggard was hit in the shoulder early Sunday and is listed in stable condition at Temple Hospital.

Vanore says Hoggard and a colleague were on patrol when they heard what they thought were gunshots at the intersection of 13th and Somerset streets just before 2:30 a.m.

Staff and wire reports