Metro Digest || Sentenced in crash

Sentenced in crash

YOUNGSTOWN

An Alliance man will be spending the next three years behind bars after reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors over a 2009 automobile accident that killed his passenger.

Jesse Hill, 22, of Alliance pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated-vehicular homicide in a plea agreement before Judge John Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. The judge also suspended his license for life.

According to the indictment, Hill was under “the influence of alcohol ... and a drug of abuse” at the time of a Nov. 2 crash in Smith Township that killed passenger Charles Shreve, 17, also of Alliance.

Denies raping child

BROOKFIELD

James C. Roth, 26, of Hubbard Thomas Road, returns to court Thursday after pleading innocent Monday in Trumbull County Eastern District Court to rape of an 11-year-old girl.

Judge Ronald Rice set bond at $250,000. If convicted, Roth could be sentenced to life in prison.

Recognition event

girard

U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Niles, D-17th, attended a recognition event Tuesday at Girard High School, 704 E. Prospect St., honoring the school for receiving a Bronze Medal for Best High Schools in America from US News & World Report.

The Ohio Report Card rated Girard High as excellent for academic years 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09.

Idora revitalization

YOUNGSTOWN

City Councilman Paul Drennen, D-5th, will have a neighborhood meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the distribution center of the Rescue Mission of the Mahoning Valley, 2246 Glenwood Ave., to discuss the Idora Neighborhood revitalization program.

Woman carjacked

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are trying to determine who robbed a Warren woman downtown.

The 30-year-old victim told police she left a bar and walked to her car at 3:30 a.m. Saturday, but realized she was too drunk to drive, so she sat in the car waiting to sober up.

The woman said a man offered to sell her marijuana, but she refused. She told officers that the man pulled out a gun and made her drive to another parking lot, where he told her to get out of the car before he drove off with it.

Dems group to meet

POLAND

The Democrats of the 17th and 6th Districts will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Poland Community Baseball Association to endorse candidates in the May 4 Democratic primary. The date of the meeting was incorrect on Page A3 in Monday’s edition of The Vindicator. Primary candidates seeking the group’s endorsement are asked to attend.