LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF: School vandalized

Chaney issues

YOUNGSTOWN

Chaney High School students will have an extra day off this month so that the staff and Youngstown schools administration can address fights and other issues.

The Ohio Department of Education granted a waiver day for Dec. 21, and Youngstown school officials will answer questions about the day off at 6:15 p.m. today, between the board caucus at 5:30 p.m. and the regular board-of-education meeting at 6:30 p.m.

School vandalized

WARREN

It was a good night on the hardwood Saturday for the Warren John F. Kennedy High School boys basketball team, as the Eagles won their first game of the year at Champion, 49-31.

But the story wasn’t so good when JFK Coach Shawn Pompelia and his players returned to JFK High School about 9:30 p.m. and found that a chunk of cement had been thrown through the windows of four vehicles in the school parking lot, 2550 Central Parkway Ave. S.E. Two other vehicles were damaged by the concrete but not entered, police said. In all, six vehicles were involved.

Items such as a global- positioning system, purse and wallet were taken from one of the vehicles, police said.

Meeting canceled

NORTH LIMA

The Beaver Township 200th Anniversary Committee has canceled its December meeting, which was scheduled for Wednesday.

The meeting has been rescheduled for Jan. 19 at the Beaver Township Administration Office, 11999 South Ave. Anyone is welcome to attend the meetings, usually the third Wednesday of each month, to plan, prepare and organize events that will take place throughout 2011 to mark the 200th-anniversary year of the township’s establishment.

For more information or to help with the planning of the observance, contact the Beaver Township Park Board at 330-549-9552.

Fatal crash

NEW BEAVER, PA

A woman was killed in a one-car accident in the borough of New Beaver, police there said.

Kendra Keith, 32, of Short Street in Wampum died around 7 p.m. Sunday when she lost control on an icy stretch of state Route 168 at Beaver Dam Road, police said.

Police said her car went sideways through a parking lot and into a yard, hitting a fence and a tree.

She died at the scene, police said.