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Monthlong closing

NEW SPRINGFIELD

A portion of East South Range Road will be closed for a month beginning Tuesday. Safety upgrades will take place on East South Range Road between Unity Road and Brungard Road until Oct. 7.

2 families lose homes in apartment fire

BOARDMAN

A fire left two families without an apartment Friday morning.

Flames shot out of an apartment complex at 463 and 465 Mathews Road about 1:30 a.m. Boardman and Poland township fire departments spent a couple of hours on the scene, where no one was injured.

The cause is still under investigation, but there are no obvious signs of arson, and it appears to be accidental, firefighters said.

Damage is estimated at $50,000 to $60,000, according to initial fire reports.

Brother stabbed

WARREN

Antonio D. Carter, 19, of Mahoning Avenue Northwest, has pleaded innocent to felonious assault after police said he stabbed his brother three times with a screwdriver.

His brother, 21, told police the two were arguing at Antonio Carter’s apartment just before midnight Thursday. The fight continued into the parking lot, where Antonio pulled out a screwdriver and stabbed his brother in the forearm, back and shoulder blade, police said.

The injured brother was taken to a hospital for treatment.

Antonio Carter is being held in the Trumbull County Jail in lieu of $2,500 bond.

New citizens

YOUNGSTOWN

The following became U.S. citizens in a Thursday naturalization ceremony, with Judge R. Scott Krichbaum, of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, presiding. Their names, hometowns and countries of origin are: Hiep Phu Nguyen, Austintown, Vietnam; Fusheng Sun, Canfield, the People’s Republic of China; Neena, Ankit and Pradeep Bansal, Boardman, India; Ravi and Neelam Rai, Canfield, Canada; and Faiza Hafeez, Poland, Pakistan.

3-year sentence

WARREN

David J. Zadai, 23, of Marshall Street was sentenced to three years in prison for shooting at a car containing two people he was trying to rob on Raglan Drive in Howland Township on Dec. 27, 2008.

Zadai pleaded guilty Thursday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to aggravated robbery and felonious assault and a specification that he used a gun in commission of the crime. He could have gotten up to 18 years in prison.

Prosecutors said Zadai demanded money from the two people in the car. The two people pulled out of the driveway, and Zadai fired one shot into the hood of the car.

Assault charge

WARREN

Archie M. Cooper, 38, of Washington Street Northeast, pleaded innocent to felonious assault Friday in Warren Municipal Court after police said he shot another man several times in the leg early Friday.

Police said Cooper and the victim, a 48-year-old Parkman Road Southwest man, were arguing on Cooper’s porch near Mercer Street about 4:20 a.m. regarding a juvenile female. The victim said Cooper shot at him, so he ran down Washington Street to get away. Officers recovered six bullet casings on the sidewalk.

Cooper was on the sidewalk when police arrived and said he shot the victim because he feared for his life. Police removed a handgun from Cooper’s waistband.

Cooper is in the Trumbull County jail in lieu of $5,000 bond. The victim was treated at Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital.