‘Eggstravaganza’ set

‘Eggstravaganza’ set

YOUNGSTOWN — Mill Creek MetroParks’ annual Easter “Eggstravaganza” will be at 11:30 a.m. April 4 on the Judge Morley Pavilion lawn in the Wick Recreation area in Youngstown. The egg hunt is for children age 4 to 10. The Easter Bunny will visit a special hunt area for children 2 to 3 years old and their parents. There will be an adult egg toss after the children’s hunt. For more information, call (330) 740-7107.

Youth wellness day

YOUNGSTOWN — Jack & Jill of America Inc., Youngstown Chapter, will sponsor a Kids and Teens Wellness Awareness Day from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. April 4 at East Branch Library, 430 Early Road. Activities will include Jump Stretch, Heimlich maneuver demonstrations and information on the importance of immunizations.

Mattress catches fire

YOUNGSTOWN — Firefighters said a 5-year-old boy playing with a cigarette lighter set fire to a mattress in his home at 113 E. Florida Ave. around 6 p.m. Thursday. It was extinguished before firefighters arrived. Loss was estimated at $1,200. The house is owned by Latisha Crockett-Rudolph. Firefighters said she identified her son as the one who started the blaze. No one was injured.

Drug trafficking charge

YOUNGSTOWN — A Falls Avenue woman is free on bond after arraignment on charges of trafficking in marijuana. Jamelle L. Square, 34, of 450 Falls Ave., was arrested in her home around 4:30 p.m. Thursday after officers arrived with a search warrant. Police said no one responded to their announcement of their presence with a warrant, so they broke in through the front door. Officers said they found Square coming out of a second-floor bedroom and later found five plastic bags, each containing an ounce of suspected marijuana, and a black digital scale in that bedroom. A search of the property turned up small bags of suspected marijuana and crack cocaine in the garage, police said. Square spent Thursday night in jail and was arraigned Friday.

Brookfield enrollment

BROOKFIELD — Township schools will have a kindergarten enrollment makeup date Thursday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.; 12:30 to 1:30; and 5 to 7 p.m. at Brookfield Elementary School, 115 Anson Way, Sharon. Children must be age 5 by Sept. 30, and enrollment will require a certified copy of the birth certificate (with the mother’s maiden name on the document), two proofs of residency (must be current utility bill with parents’ name or a lease agreement) and written proof of state-required immunizations. For more information, call (724) 347-1851.

Fugitive arrested

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. — Police arrested a man wanted in two states around 10:45 p.m. Thursday at an apartment complex on Cowden Road. Officers from multiple departments took Walter W. Adkins Jr., 36, of Pierce Avenue, Sharpsville, into custody on a warrant from St. Lawrence, N.Y., on a charge of violating probation on a grand larceny conviction. Adkins also is charged in a fraud scheme in Gilmer, W.Va. He is in the Lawrence County jail in lieu of a $50,000 bond. Authorities from both states indicated they would extradite him.

29-year-old dies

GIRARD — City police and the Trumbull County coroner are investigating the sudden death of 29-year-old Dana Wilson of South State Street. Police reports say Wilson’s husband told officers she suffered from seizures and had experienced some Wednesday. Officers were told that Wilson went to bed that evening but was not breathing when her husband tried to wake her Thursday morning.

Bullet misses toddler

WARREN — Police are investigating a shooting Thursday morning that injured two people and narrowly missed hitting a 2-year-old on the city’s southwest side. A man, 21, of Fifth Street Southwest, and a woman, 18, of Third Street Southwest, were in a pickup truck on Lane Drive Southwest when it was hit by bullets at 10:30. The man was hit by at least one shot, and the woman was cut by breaking glass, said Lt. Gary Vingle of the Warren Police Department. The child, in the back seat, was not injured. Both adults were treated at Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital.