Special Handel’s day

Special Handel’s day

Today, Handel’s Ice Cream customers will be able to buy their favorite flavor on a cone for $1. The annual customer- appreciation day will be at all eight Mahoning Valley locations.

The effort is to thank people for their patronage and contributing to the 65-year-old local franchise’s growth, said Jim Brown, chief operating officer.

Man injured in crash

SHALERSVILLE

A Windham man was killed and a Struthers man was injured in a head-on crash at 8:49 a.m. Friday on state Route 303 a half-mile east of state Route 44.

John M. McMillion, 37, of Struthers, was driving a dump truck eastbound on Route 303 that was loaded with 24 tons of sand. According the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Walter L. White, 28, of Windham, was driving a Honda Civic westbound on state Route 303.

White went left of center, and the car and truck collided.

White was pronounced dead at the scene.

McMillion was taken to Robinson Memorial Hospital, Ravenna, where he was in stable condition.

A passenger in the truck, Gerald Dowling, 18, of Garrettsville, was flown to MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, where he was in stable condition.

Death investigation

EAST LIVERPOOL

Liverpool Police Chief Charlie T. Burgess on Friday said he does not believe the death of a woman is foul play.

Tracy D. Knoblock, 40, of Seventh Street, East Liverpool, was found in a remote location off Park Place. A family member found Knoblock’s body Thursday.

She had been reported missing June 24.

Felonious assault

YOUNGSTOWN

A city man is in Mahoning County jail on a $150,000 bond after he pistol- whipped two women during a dispute over spending time with his child, police said.

Antwan Napier, 19, of Charlotte Avenue, appeared before Magistrate Anthony Sertick of Youngstown Municipal Court for arraignment Friday on two counts of felonious assault.

Reports say the beatings took place when Napier tried to take his child away from a third woman on Rush Boulevard about 3:30 a.m. July 5.

Accidental shooting

YOUNGSTOWN

A 58-year-old city man is in stable condition at St. Elizabeth Health Center after accidentally shooting himself with his shotgun Thursday.

Police questioned the Princeton Avenue man at the hospital shortly after the shooting. He told police he was cleaning his shotgun in his bedroom at 5:45 p.m. when he accidentally knocked the gun over and the weapon discharged, striking him in his arm.

The man said he wrapped his arm with a bandage and drove himself to the hospital.

Police seek woman

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are looking for a woman who reportedly assaulted a minister and then failed to show up for her arraignment Friday in Youngstown Municipal Court.

Police arrested Vivian Warren, 43, of Oak Street, at 1:20 p.m. Thursday after they responded to a complaint made by a minister at a church along Wick Park on the city’s North Side.

The minister told police that Warren “assaulted the pastor and threw Bibles and other materials all over the church.”

Police arrested Warren two blocks from the church at Park and Pennsylvania avenues. During the search, police found a suspected crack pipe in her possession, they said.

Warren was supposed to appear for her arraignment Friday on charges of possession of drug paraphernalia and assault, but she failed to do so.