Metro digest

Scout leaders needed

YOUNGSTOWN –Women volunteers are needed as Girl Scout Troop Leaders with Warriors, Inc. To complete an application, visit the Warriors office in the Hope Building, 2733 Market St. Contact Wendy Robinson or Sparkil Alli at (330) 783-5440 for more information.

Semi overturns, jams I-80

YOUNGSTOWN — Police are still trying to determine what caused a semi-truck to overturn and back up traffic along Interstate 80 for miles.

According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, a semi overturned in the eastbound lane of Interstate 80 near mile marker 234 shortly after 7 p.m. Thursday, dumping melons on the roadway and causing cars to back up along the highway stretch for several hours.

There were no injuries reported in the accident as of late Thursday night, and officers had not determined a cause.

Bomb ingredients in car

AUSTINTOWN — Officers with the Ohio State Highway Patrol and Youngstown bomb squad have been working for the past few hours to find out why bomb-making materials were in a car traveling through Austintown Township.

According to police, officers pulled over a car in the township at 7:54 p.m. containing materials used in the making of bombs and pipe bombs. The driver was being detained at an apartment complex on Westchester Drive.

OSHP officials would not say if the driver is a local resident or give any identifying information.

Program on birds

CANFIELD — Heather Merritt from Birds of Flight will present an Ohio’s Birds of Prey program at the Audubon Society/Mahoning Valley monthly meeting Tuesday. Live owls and hawks will be part of the program at the Mill Creek MetroParks Farm on Route 46. Social time begins at 6:30 p.m. The program presentation starts at 7 p.m. The meeting is open to the public. For more information call (888) 846-8851.

Block watch meeting

YOUNGSTOWN — The public is invited when Northside Eagle Eye Block Watch has a special meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday at New Grace Missionary Baptist Church, 909 Fairgreen Ave., with two Youngstown city officials. They will discuss what is being done to deter crime and violence in the city. At 6:30 p.m. a registered nurse from HMHP St. Elizabeth will speak about H1N1 swine-flu virus.

Boathouses closed

YOUNGSTOWN — The boat houses located in Mill Creek MetroParks are now closed for the season. They will reopen in May. Lake Glacier and Lake Newport are open for private boating until Nov. 30, however, all boats on racks must be removed by Dec. 1.

For more information, call the MetroParks Recreation Department at (330) 740-7126.

Three rob Circle K

WARREN — Three men wearing hooded sweatshirts and white bandanas over their faces robbed the Circle K store, 1361 North Leavitt Road, at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Two of the men entered the store together, went behind the counter and forced the clerk to open the register and Lotto machine.

One of the men, holding a pistol in his hand, said the clerk wasn’t moving fast enough and hit her with a hand or fist.

The third man came into the store after the first two wearing a black bandana- type cloth over his face and forced a customer back inside the store and took her purse.

Stewart released on bond

WARREN — Thomas W. Stewart, 41, of Lynwood Drive, pleaded innocent to felonious assault in Warren Municipal Court on Thursday and was released on $5,000 bond.

City police charged Stewart with the offense after a 24-year-old Bristolville man alleged that Stewart struck him with a broom handle during a confrontation at Stewart’s home at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The Bristolville man had three to four welts on his arm and also said he had been hit in the buttock/hamstring area.

Stewart told police the Bristolville man had threatened him in front of his children, and he wanted the alleged victim to leave. The argument was over a missing stereo in a vehicle Stewart was repairing for the alleged victim, police said.