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Soulja Boy tickets

YOUNGSTOWN

Reduced-price tickets for Friday’s hip-hop concert featuring Soulja Boy at the Covelli Centre go on sale today at 10 a.m. at the Covelli box office, at Ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster outlets and by calling 800-745-3000. The reduced prices are $50 for floor seats and $25 for all other seats. Tickets used to be $77, $67, $47, $37, $27. The concert starts at 8 p.m.

Robbery probed

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are investigating the beating and robbery of a 47-year-old man outside his South Avenue home.

According to reports, the man was standing outside his South Side home at 11:40 p.m. Monday when five male teens believed to be between 15 and 17 years old, got out of a minivan and began beating him. The group then took $150 from the man’s pockets and fled.

Reports say the man was treated at St. Elizabeth Health Center’s Boardman campus for cracked ribs and bruises.

Community event

BOARDMAN

The 14th annual Community Christmas will be from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Boardman Park. The free event will include a visit from Santa, a concert by the Boardman High School Band and tours of the St. James Meeting House, which was decorated by the Holborn Herb Growers Guild. The park is on U.S. Route 224, east of Southern Boulevard. For more information, contact the park office at 330-726-8105, or go to www.boardmanpark.com

Suspect in custody after shooting

NEW CASTLE, PA

Trevaughn Thompson, 19, of New Castle died Tuesday evening after being shot in the head earlier that day, city police said.

Police Chief Tom Sansone said Tuesday afternoon the department had a 19-year-old New Castle resident in custody and were still questioning him. They were expecting to charge him with attempted homicide and aggravated assault, but the chief was unavailable Tuesday night to say how those charges may be amended now that Thompson has died.

Sansone said a man walking on Halco Drive shot Thompson as he was pulling away in his car. Witnesses and security video from a public-housing development led them to question the suspect, the chief said.

Thompson was taken to Jameson Hospital, then by helicopter to St. Elizabeth Health Center, Youngstown, where he died.

Sansone said he did not know a motive for the shooting.

Suspected fraud

LIBERTY

Police said a 43-year-old township man lost $2,425 that he sent by Western Union to a young woman in Nigeria that he met online. The two exchanged e-mails, and she told the local man she needed money for reasons detailed in those e-mails. The victim received a check from the woman, but the check was bogus. The investigation is ongoing.

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