METRO DIGEST

Temporary closings

YOUNGSTOWN — Because of the annual YMCA Community Cup, the following roads in Mill Creek MetroParks will be closed between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday: Bears Den, New Cross, West and West Glacier drives.

Community Cup participants and spectators are asked to park in the lots at the Wick Recreation Area, accessible from the intersection of McCollum Road and South Belle Vista Avenue.

Fleeing man injured

CAMPBELL — A man was injured when he fell over an embankment while running from police.

Gerald A. Ferguson, 39, of Oakview Avenue in Struthers, ran during a traffic stop at 10 p.m. Wednesday at Robinson Road and Chambers Street. An officer had stopped him for a stop-sign violation, a police report said.

Ferguson fell at Robinson and Blackburn. He was taken to the station, then taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center after complaining of pain in his ribs.

Ferguson faces charges of driving under suspension, obstructing official business, resisting arrest and the stop sign violation.

He was released on a bond of $5,550.

Police seek suspect

WARREN — Police are looking for a Montgomery Avenue Northwest man who they say got into an ex-girlfriend’s car Wednesday afternoon, threatened her and hit her in the face with the butt of a handgun.

The woman, from Cortland, said Alfred Milender Jr., 37, got into her car at the corner of Mahoning Avenue and Dunstan Drive at about 5:40 p.m., told her not to testify against him at an upcoming domestic violence hearing and caused a 4-inch gash on her cheek by hitting her with the gun.

The woman eventually escaped from the vehicle, which Milender drove away, she said.

A warrant has been issued for Milender’s arrest. It charges him with felonious assault, abduction and theft of a motor vehicle.

Akron man sought

WARREN — An Akron man is wanted on felony charges of failure to comply with the orders of a police officer and receiving stolen property and misdemeanor traffic offenses.

Police officers spotted a motorcycle on Hamilton Street Southwest at about 6 p.m. Tuesday that matched the description of one reported stolen weeks earlier in Warren.

A man, later identified as Marcel Tipton, 23, of Akron, got on the motorcycle and then fled when an officer tried to make a traffic stop. The vehicle was traveling at least 80 mph on Palmyra Road when officers called off the pursuit.

But the officer following the motorcycle continued west on Palmyra because of wet road conditions and discovered that Tipton had crashed the motorcycle in Warren Township. Tipton was taken to Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital.

ACT preparation classes

CANFIELD — The Ursuline Center, 4300 Shields Road, will be the location of Sunday classes to prepare students for the Oct. 24 ACT college-admission test.

Classes will meet from 11 a.m. to 1:35 p.m. for five consecutive Sundays beginning this weekend. Tuition is $175.

Preregistration is required and must be made by contacting David Diciccio at (330) 755-2710.

Parking lots to be paved

HUBBARD — The recycling center and access to all parking lots and entrances to Hubbard Fire Station will be closed Monday and Tuesday in order to pave the parking lots. No rain dates have been set.

Clean energy is topic

YOUNGSTOWN — Sheila Klasovsky, Youngstown-Warren field organizer for The Alliance for Climate Protection, is the guest speaker at the Mahoning Valley Greens meeting 6:30 p.m. Monday at Casa Ramirez Restaurant, 1578 Mahoning Ave. She will speak on passing comprehensive clean-energy legislation in the Senate this year. The public is invited.