Police deny permit to Canton solicitors

Police deny permit to Canton solicitors

HUBBARD — Police denied a representative of Volunteer Rescue Mission in Canton a permit to solicit donations after police discovered that the Canton organization is the subject of a criminal fraud investigation.

The Canton Repository has published stories on the probe, noting that investigators and accountants from the Ohio attorney general’s charitable-law section have joined the probe. The mission sends volunteers to go door to door throughout northern Ohio seeking donations.

The Vindicator published a story in September 2006 noting that the Rescue Mission of Mahoning Valley should not be confused with the Canton shelter and is not affiliated with it. At that time, Canton representatives were soliciting funds in the area. The Valley mission does not solicit door to door.

Byers-Emmerling seeks common-pleas seat

EAST LIVERPOOL — Judge Melissa Byers-Emmerling of East Liverpool Municipal Court announced Tuesday she will run for judge of Columbiana County Common Pleas Court.

She is running for the seat now held by Judge David Tobin. Both are Democrats.

Judge Tobin announced late last year that he would retire in mid-2010.

Judge Byers-Emmerling is a graduate of Wellsville High School, Miami University of Oxford, Ohio, and the University of Akron School of Law. She and her husband, Atty. Fred Emmerling, have one son. She has been on the bench 21 years.

Copper stolen

BOARDMAN — A McClurg Road business reported the theft of $11,000 worth of copper from its warehouse.

An employee of Aerotech reported the theft of copper fittings and copper pipes from a locked, fenced-in area of the warehouse Friday morning.

It appeared that thieves had pried open a door to the business to get inside.

McKinley’s birthday

NILES — The McKinley Memorial Library will have its annual celebration honoring the birthday of President William McKinley from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at the McKinley Birthplace Home and Research Center on North Main Street.

The event, which is free to the public, will feature refreshments and tours of the reconstructed home at the site where McKinley was born Jan. 29, 1843. McKinley, the nation’s 25th president, was assassinated in 1901 at age 58.

Inappropriate behavior

BOARDMAN — Two teenage girls say they were given alcohol by two boys in the parking lot of the Southern Park Mall and woke up to find articles of their clothing removed.

The girls, 15 and 16, told their parents that they met two boys Saturday evening at the mall and went to a vehicle the boys were driving to talk.

The boys gave each girl a beer, and the girls woke up later with their undergarments removed, a police report said.

The girls hadn’t met the boys before Saturday, the report said.

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