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School rezoning

AUSTINTOWN

The Mahoning County Planning Commission approved the rezoning of the former South Range Middle School property, 7600 W. South Range Road, Greenford, on Thursday. The change from residential and agricultural to commercial will allow reuse of that building as a business incubator, known as the Greenford Bobcats Space Center. The use of the building as a school ended this year when the school district opened a new kindergarten-through-12th-grade complex on state Route 46 in Beaver Township.

Mum on shooting

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are investigating the shooting of a 23-year-old Roxbury Avenue man.

Officers responding to a call for shots fired Thursday afternoon found the man limping up his driveway with a gunshot wound to his leg and calling for family members. The man would not tell police where he had been shot and said he did not know who had shot him. The man was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center for treatment.

More burglary charges

struthers

A man who already was facing six counts of felony burglary is facing two more.

Duane E. Stamp, 48, of Campbell was charged Thursday with two burglaries at North Bridge Street houses in October and November, said Struthers Detective Jeff Pantall.

Stamp had been arraigned Wednesday along with two other men, all charged with burglaries in Poland Township.

He remained at the Struthers jail Thursday. His arraignment on the new charges likely was going to be today in Struthers Municipal Court, Pantall said.

Donation for Seaborn

MINERAL RIDGE

The Weathersfield Board of Education has accepted a $5,000 donation from Seaborn Elementary School Home and School Association to be used for new technology at the school.

Superintendent Damon Dohar explained that the funds will be used toward the purchase of four Mimio machines at Seaborn, which work like Smart Boards in the classroom.

A blackboard is used as a screen on which to view computer information being used in the classroom as a learning tool.

The Mimio machines are slightly cheaper than Smart Boards, Dohar said. He hopes to purchase at least three and possibly four machines in 2011, and the donation will include professional training for teachers on how to use them.

The board also accepted a donation of $468 from the deacon board of First Presbyterian Church of Mineral Ridge for the purchase of books and materials for the Seaborn library.

Multiple theft charges

New wilmington, pa.

Police have filed charges against two people they say stole $916 worth of cigarettes from a convenience store.

Charges were filed Tuesday in the Sept. 19 theft and the attempted theft of money from the cash register at Red’s Place on South New Castle Street, police said.

Tory L. Glorioso, 24, of Old Butler Road in New Castle and Rachel E. Kay, 27, of Linden Street in Sharon were each charged with one count of theft, one count of attempted theft, one count of receiving stolen property and four counts of conspiracy.

Kay also was charged with defiant trespass because she had been banned from the store for stealing money from it in 2005.