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Easter Bunny dinner

Boardman

Dinner with the Easter Bunny at the Lariccia Family Community Center at Boardman Park will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Tickets can be purchased at the park office from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Tickets are $6 for Boardman residents and $7 for nonresidents. Children younger than 18 months get in free. This event includes dinner, arts and crafts and a family photo with the bunny.

Angel Food Blessings

Youngstown

Crossroads Church, 554 S. Meridian Road, will be taking orders for Angel Food Blessings in a box. Quality food is offered in various-size boxes from $21 to $41. They include meat, vegetables and fruit.

Pre-order, pre-pay with cash, debit and credit cards, money orders or Ohio Direction Card. Orders for the April menu will be taken on these dates: 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday, April 9 and 11, and 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday and April 14. The last day to place orders for the April menu at the host site is by 5:30 p.m. April 14.

Distribution of food will be from 9 to 10:30 a.m. April 23. For more information, call 330-799-9988, 330-544-1064 or 330-719-5002.

Sentenced for theft

WARREN

A 27-year-old Belmont Street Northwest woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing from the Eastwood Mall J.C. Penney store Dec. 24, 2009, attempting to choke a store security officer who confronted her and hiding the stolen goods in a store nearby.

Nikeisha Pruitt was convicted during a bench trial before Judge John M. Stuard of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court in January on charges of robbery and tampering with evidence.

Judge Stuard could have sentenced her to up to 13 years in prison. Mike Burnett, assistant Trumbull County prosecutor, recommended the maximum sentence.

She will be eligible for shock probation in nine months.

Guns reported stolen

youngstown

Police responded Tuesday to a theft-of-guns report at a residence in the 600 block of Mahoning Avenue. A 52-year-old man told police he was in the process of moving and went to pack up guns stored in a locked cabinet. He found the cabinet damaged and three guns missing. Two other guns, including a shotgun, remained.

The man told police he cleaned all the guns about a month ago. He gave the serial numbers to police. There was no sign of forced entry.

Robbery charge

EAST PALESTINE

The East Palestine Police Department announced that it has charged Jonathan Lipinski, 21, of New Galilee, Pa., with robbing Gorby’s Grocery, 368 N. Market St., on March 20. Sgt. Kevin Dickey of the East Palestine police department interviewed the suspect in the Lawrence County, (Pa.) Jail on Wednesday. Police also are trying to determine if Lipinski is connected to a robbery at a Subway restaurant at 179 E. Taggart St. on Sunday. He is in jail on unrelated charges out of Pennsylvania.

Man charged with arson

WARREN

Thomas Knicely, 66, of Hamilton Street Southwest has pleaded innocent to a felony breaking-and-entering charge and a misdemeanor arson charge in a Monday night fire in a neighbor’s detached garage.

A witness reported seeing Knicely walk into the garage at 1376 Hamilton about 11 p.m. and then saw an orange glow inside. The witness said she called out to Knicely to ask him what he was doing, and Knicely ran out of the garage and into his own house.

Officers found Knicely in his house with a lighter in his pants pocket and arrested him.

Judge Terry Ivanchak of Warren Municipal Court set Knicely’s bond at $5,000.