Children’s fair

Children’s fair

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A children’s fair is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Church Hill United Methodist Church, 189 Church Hill-Hubbard Road.

There will be games such as fish pond, lollipop tree, animal toss, cakewalk and sand art. Tickets are a quarter. For more information, call the church at (330) 759-0118.

Wanted on warrants

YOUNGSTOWN

A 19-year-old city man was shot and taken to an area hospital for treatment, but he may be the one facing charges.

Police were called to the 1300 block of Park Vista Drive on the East Side for a shooting just before 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. Police found the 19-year-old victim shot in the back.

The man gave his name to officers and was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center. Officers interviewed the man and realized the name he had given was false.

The shooting victim has an active warrant for receiving stolen property and two warrants for carrying a concealed weapon.

Weapons charge

WARREN

Antonio Hernandez, 23, of South Feederle Street, pleaded innocent Thursday in Warren Municipal Court to carrying a concealed weapon, a felony, after police said they passed him standing on the sidewalk and in the yard of a home on Feederle wearing a gun holster and firearm around his waist.

Police said Hernandez did not have a concealed-carry permit. Officers noticed the gun while on patrol at about 4:30 p.m. Children were nearby when they noticed the gun and police arrested Hernandez.

If convicted on the charge, Hernandez faces up to 18 months in prison.

$500 for St. Jude’s

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J.L.C. Preschool, 415 S. Main St., an outreach of Jerusalem Lutheran Church, recently had a trike-a-thon for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and raised $500. The children brought their bikes and trikes to the preschool to ride indoors.

The money was donated to St. Jude hospital, the only pediatric cancer-research center where families never pay for treatment not covered by insurance, and no child is denied treatment because of the family’s inability to pay.

Man pleads guilty

WARREN

DeVincent C. Lowery, 18, of Peerless Avenue Southwest pleaded guilty Thursday before Judge John M. Stuard in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, kidnapping and felonious assault.

Lowery and Ralph Underwood, 20, of Maryland Street Northwest, were charged after police arrested them outside the Giant Eagle on Mahoning Avenue, where witnesses said they fled after breaking into an occupied home on Tod Avenue Northwest on Jan. 20. Jewelry from the home was recovered from the bed of a pickup truck in the store parking lot, police said.

Lowery will be sentenced after the Adult Probation Department conducts a pre-sentence investigation. He could get more than 30 years in prison. Underwood appears for a pretrial hearing Monday before Judge Peter Kontos.

Downed power line

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Police and fire departments responded to a report of a power line down around 4 p.m. Wednesday at 709 E. Liberty St., where a box truck from a business was backing into a driveway.

The truck snagged the line, causing it to fall very low into the eastbound lane, where two oncoming vehicles struck the line. There was minor damage to the hoods and windshields.

Fire department personnel inspected the pole and power line, and neither was damaged. Ohio Edison secured the power line.

Road work planned

NEW SPRINGFIELD

Several Springfield Township roads are scheduled for paving and other surface improvements over the next few months.

Township Road Superintendent Rich Kennedy announced when trustees met Wednesday that Mahoning County will pave Middletown Road between Beard and Unity roads.

The county also will seal Rapp Road from Middletown Road to Columbiana-New Castle Road and will level Garfield Road from Route 165 to Beaver-Springfield Road.

In addition, Kennedy said the township will do a $162,000 project to pave portions of South Range Road. The township will pay $55,000 of the project, and state funds will be used for the remainder.