Metro Digest

4 arrested in Niles

NILES — City police officers arrested four people on various charges after serving two search warrants at 131 S. Cedar St. and 229 Ann St.

Harry Tackach, 39, of South Cedar, was arrested Thursday after agents recovered Oxycontin pills, marijuana and an unspecified amount of cash from the premises. He was arrested on a felony charge of permitting drug abuse.

At Ann Street, agents seized marijuana, unspecified pills, scales, an unspecified amount of cash, assorted paraphernalia, three shotguns, a handgun and several knives.

Arrested were Richard Wagner, 27; David Wagner, 29; and Holly Spurlock, 21. Richard Wagner was charged with one count of trafficking in marijuana.

Each of the three was charged with a count of child endangering because an 18-month-old was playing near the area of the drugs and weapons.

Run for Grace and Andy

HIRAM — The third annual Run for Grace and Andy will take place at Hiram College at 10 a.m. Saturday.

The 5K run celebrates the lives of Grace Chamberlain of Kirtland and Andy Hopkins of Champion, Hiram College first-year students who died in March 2006 after their vehicle was struck by a drunken driver who had 11 previous DUI convictions.

Proceeds will go into the Fund for Grace and Andy and will be used to support Hiram’s Andrew Hopkins Music Award and the Grace J. Chamberlain Prize in Creative Writing.

Participants may register and obtain more information by going to www.hiram.edu/run4graceandy/.

On-site registration starts at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at Martin Commons on the Hiram campus.

Apartment-complex fire

HUBBARD — A fire at the Shadow Run apartment complex at 518 W. Liberty St. prompted a brief evacuation Thursday morning.

There are between 200 and 300 apartments in the complex, said Hubbard Fire Chief John Clemente.

A tenant at an apartment in the east wing turned on her oven, forgetting to take out paper bags she was storing in it, a police report indicates.

The fire department was called to the complex at 6:30 a.m., Clemente said. The fire was contained to the oven but sent smoke throughout the entire complex.

Health-center fire probed

BOARDMAN — The cause of a fire in a soiled-linen room on the third floor of St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Center is under investigation.

No one was injured in the 9 a.m. Thursday blaze.

An employee used an extinguisher to knock down the small fire.

Pa. boy, 12, to stand trial

NEW CASTLE, Pa. – A judge has ruled there is sufficient evidence to hold 12-year-old Jordan Brown of New Galilee for trial in the killing of his father’s pregnant girlfriend last winter and refused to disallow most of the evidence the defense wanted to be suppressed.

Lawrence County Common Pleas Court Judge Dominick Motto denied motions Thursday to suppress statements the boy made to a state trooper at Mohawk Elementary School the day of the murder and items seized in a search of his home.

Judge Motto said Miranda warnings were not required at the school, and the boy’s statements were voluntary. He also ruled that an application for a search warrant was legal.

Jordan is charged with criminal homicide and homicide of an unborn child in the shooting of Kenzie Houk, 26, as she lay in bed Feb. 20 and then getting on the school bus with Houk’s second-grade daughter to go to school.