Metro Digest || Kids’ books needed

Kids’ books needed

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The Friends of the Library at Hubbard Public Library, 436 W. Liberty St., is always accepting books, CDs, DVDs, puzzles and games for its ongoing book sale under the stairs. The project is in need of children’s books. Donations may be taken to the circulation desk during regular library hours. Call Bonnie Viele, book sale chairman, at 330-534-1394 for more information.

Gifts delivered

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Members of Mizpah Chapter 66, Order of the Eastern Star, Prince Hall, Amaranth of Trumbull County, delivered wrapped gifts to Tasharra Bennet of and her children of Warren on Thursday. Bennett has six children ranging in age from 6 to 14. The organization presented the children with $400 worth of toys, books and clothing. The family also received turkey and all the trimmings for a Christmas dinner.

The group presented the same family with a turkey on Thanksgiving.

Victim still critical

NEW CASTLE, pa.

A woman pulled from a house fire in New Castle on Thursday was still in critical condition Friday.

Denise Bradley, a tenant at the duplex at 516 Pearson St., was taken to UPMC Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh after firefighters responded to the 1:30 a.m. blaze.

Two men made it safely out of the home with the help of firefighters.

The owner of the duplex and her two children escaped unharmed, according to the department.

Three firefighters suffered minor injuries when two hurt their backs and one hurt his ankle.

Extensive damage will require that the house be torn down. The city fire marshal is investigating the cause of the blaze.

Son, dog terrorized but survive robbery

TOLEDO (AP)

An Ohio woman says her 13-year-old son was held at gunpoint by two robbers who stole gifts and overturned the family’s Christmas tree while she was out shopping for the holidays. The men broke in through an unlocked bathroom window Wednesday night, Diane Warren of Toledo told WTOL-TV.

“They asked him to do what they said or else they would shoot him,” she said. The robbers also kicked the family’s small dog when it tried to protect the 8th-grade boy, Warren told The (Toledo) Blade.

She said her 23-year-old daughter arrived home just as the men left. The boy called his mother, and a neighbor called police.

The Blade reports that officers followed footsteps in the snow and were able to recover some of the gifts, including a Sony PlayStation.

Warren said the thieves “just stole our life for the moment. My son says he doesn’t want to be in the house.”

Warren said she doesn’t care about presents but is just thankful that her children were not hurt.

Paraplegic AF vet stabbed, strangled

DAYTON (AP)

Police in Ohio continue to search for the killer of a paraplegic U.S. Air Force veteran who was found stabbed and strangled.

Authorities say 66-year-old William Boykin, of Jefferson Township, was found dead in his van Wednesday after Dayton police received a call that the vehicle had been in a neighborhood for about two days. Family members say they last saw him at church Sunday.

His former wife, Penelope Daniels, told the Dayton Daily News that, just before his death, Boykin had purchased money orders to give his 16 grandchildren for Christmas.