3 mayors to speak

3 mayors to speak

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown Mayor Jay Williams, Warren Mayor Michael O’Brien and McDonald Mayor Glenn Holmes will speak at 4 p.m. today outside Youngstown City Hall to criticize Republican policies they say benefit Wall Street, lead to the global recession and hurt Ohio families.

Today is the two-year anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich was one of about 700 managing directors for Lehman, a major financial- services company, when it filed for bankruptcy. With $600 billion in assets, it was the largest bankruptcy in the nation’s history.

Sentenced to 2 years

WARREN

Reginald Davis, the city man whose car struck a pedestrian on North Park Avenue in January, has been sentenced to two years in prison for failing to stop after an accident and tampering with evidence.

Davis, 40, of Hamilton Street Southwest, had been out of prison less than two weeks at the time of the Jan. 14 accident for having hit a pedestrian on Youngstown Road on June 7, 2008, and leaving the scene of that accident.

Irene N. Comanescu was seriously injured in the January 2010 accident, which occurred about 5:15 p.m.

The tampering charge was filed because Davis hid the car he was driving the night of the accident, police said.

POW-MIA event

Mercer, Pa.

Mercer County Vietnam Era Veterans Association and Chapter 55 of the Mercer County Disabled American Veterans are sponsoring the annual memorial event to call attention to Americans still reported missing in wars as well as those who were prisoners of war.

The event will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday at the advisory building on the south side of the Mercer County Courthouse, 120 S. Diamond St.

There will be a cage present representing the confinement of POWs during their capture and imprisonment. There also will be information set out for handout and reading.

The organizations emphasize attention for not only those missing and presumed dead but also the reports and possibilities of Americans who could still be alive up to and including the conflict in Afghanistan.

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