Bullet holes in house

Bullet holes in house

YOUNGSTOWN

Police said they found two bullet holes in a home in the 900 block of Ridge Avenue after residents reported shots fired at their house. A resident told police that her son got into an argument with some girls who followed him home late Saturday.

Her son ordered one 17-year-old girl off the property and then shoved her, the woman said, adding that the girl threatened to return with her boyfriend and shoot up the house. About 12:30 a.m. Sunday, that same girl and a second person drove up to the house in a red car and fired several shots, the resident told police. No one was injured.

Volunteers sought

liberty

Volunteers are being sought to adopt a highly littered area of the community as part of the “Great American Cleanup” and Geauga-Trumbull Solid Waste District’s 16th annual litter cleanup. Liberty High School students from Student Government and National Honor Society are assisting with this event.

Cleanup dates are from noon to 5 p.m. April 17 and 18; rain dates are the next weekend. Gloves, vests, bags and refreshments will be provided for volunteers courtesy of Belmont Giant Eagle. Participants will meet at the township adminstration building, 1315 Church Hill-Hubbard Road, for supplies and assignments.

To sign up to help, call (330) 759-1315, ext. 110.

Health-care program

YOUNGSTOWN

Judge Colleen Mary O’Toole of the 11th District Court of Appeals will talk about the Constitution and potential legal challenges to national health-care reforms at a 1 p.m. Wednesday forum in the Ohio Room of Kilcawley Center at Youngstown State University. The event is free and open to the public and hosted by the YSU College Republicans and Pre–Law Society.

Man robbed

YOUNGSTOWN

A 21-year-old man staying at the Rescue Mission of the Mahoning Valley, 962 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., told police that he was robbed by three men as he walked through the nearby Westlake apartment complex. The victim said one of the men first asked him for the time around 5:30 p.m. Saturday but then grabbed him and began going through his pockets, taking about $7 from the pocket of his hoodie and $60 from his wallet.

Court orders retrial

YOUNGSTOWN

The 7th District Court of Appeals has ordered a new trial for a man who was sentenced to 10 years in prison after a jury convicted him of raping his former girlfriend in June 2007. The appeals court ordered the new trial for Carl Chaney, 52, of Hubbard Road, an inmate at the Belmont Correctional Institution, saying the prosecution made improper references during its cross-examination of Chaney and its closing argument to Chaney’s refusal to give a statement to police after his arrest.

The appeals court noted that then-Judge Timothy E. Franken of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court failed to tell the jury to disregard the prosecutor’s comments.