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Boardman dogs found without food, water

BOARDMAN — Two dogs that were being neglected in an empty house on Hopkins Road are in the custody of the dog warden, according to a police report.

Police responded to a call of “suspicious animal noises” at the house Sunday and discovered the two dogs. The first dog was injured and confined to a small cage littered with feces and without food or water in a garage. The other was in a similar small cage in the basement of the house.

Officers located the dog’s owner, who lives in another house on the same street. He said that he had last fed the dogs Saturday and was keeping the dogs in the house because his current residence does not allow animals, according to the report,

No charges have been filed.

College staff at schools

EAST PALESTINE — Westminster College admissions staff will be visiting area high schools Nov. 12.

Dawn Chapman, associate director of admissions, will be at East Palestine High School at 9 a.m. and at Salem High School at 1 p.m.

Contact Chapman at (724) 946-6125 or e-mail chapmadm@westminster.edu for additional information.

Media to be waiters

BOARDMAN — United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley will have its first United We Dine event of the season from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday at Jeremiah Bullfrog’s Sports Bar & Grille. The event will feature media waiters and raffles including a 50/50 drawing and OSU football signed by Jim Tressel. All proceeds benefit the United Way. For more information, call the United Way office at (330) 746-8494 or visit www.ymvunitedway.org.

Free lunch at church

YOUNGSTOWN — St. Andrewes AME Church, 521 W. Earle Ave., will serve a free lunch from noon to 2 p.m. today. It is open to the public.

Mountaineer to pay for jockey physicals

CHESTER, W.Va. — Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort will pay for physical exams for the jockey colony at the racetrack. The West Virginia Racing rules require that the jockeys must have a physical at the start of each calendar year in order to be eligible to ride. The physicals will be conducted at the office of Dr. Kamlesh Aggarwal in East Liverpool and represent a funding commitment by Mountaineer.

“It’s important to Mountaineer that each jockey who rides at Mountaineer has undergone a complete physical as other athletes do,” said Rose Mary Williams, Mountaineer’s director of racing. “By funding the physicals, which are conducted at the jockeys’ convenience, we support and facilitate the health and well-being of our jockey colony.”

Hubbard stabbing arrest

HUBBARD — Police arrested a suspect in the stabbing of a city man.

David Brannan, 23, of Youngstown was charged with felonious assault and arraigned Tuesday in Girard Municipal Court in the stabbing of Timothy Ward, 28, about 1:30 a.m. Monday in a parking lot behind a bar on West Liberty Street.

Ward was treated at St. Elizabeth Health Center.

Police believe the weapon used was a knife. They aren’t sure of a motive for the stabbing but said there was apparently an argument before it happened.

Brannan was returned to the Trumbull County Jail in lieu of $5,000 bond. His preliminary hearing is set for today.

Hermitage to test sirens

HERMITAGE, Pa. — The Hermitage Fire Department will conduct its monthly test of the city’s weather- warning sirens at 10 a.m. Thursday. The test will include activation of the Clark, Farrell, Sharpsville, West Middlesex and Wheatland weather sirens. Residents are asked to disregard the altering sirens during this test.