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Fast-food rage

BOARDMAN

Police still are looking for the person who punched a woman in the face at a local fast-food restaurant.

A 24-year-old Salem woman told police she was in the drive-through lane of Wendy’s, 433 Boardman-Poland Road, around 1:15 p.m. Wednesday when the Malibu in front of her went in reverse, according to reports. The Salem woman honked her horn, and the female driver of the Malibu left the car, reached in through the Salem women’s partially open window and punched the woman two times in the face, cutting her lip and causing dental damage, reports stated.

The suspect then followed the Salem woman in her car, almost hitting her, before finally driving off toward South Avenue, police said.

Three girls seen vandalizing school

austintown

Three girls were seen breaking a window at the vacant Davis Elementary School on Wednesday. Austintown police were not able to find the girls once at the scene. The Austintown Board of Education boarded up the broken window.

Davis Elementary sits at 4302 Maple Ave. and has been vacant since 2008 with a surveillance system in place. Police patrol the site, which the district now uses for storage. The father of at least one of the girls involved went to the police station and offered to pay for the windows, Superintendent Vince Colaluca said, adding that community service usually is recommended for students in such situations.

Followed at mall

BOARDMAN

A 51-year-old Cleveland man told police that he believed two men intended to rob him Thursday around 9 p.m. at Southern Park Mall, 7401 Market St., according to reports.

The man said he was walking around the mall when two men approached him, complimented him on his chain necklace and asked how much he wanted for it, reports state.

Police said two men then followed the Cleveland man around the mall, urging him to come outside and showed him the handle of a gun, which is when the man called police. The two men ran outside and were picked up by two other men in a black Chevrolet Impala with tinted windows that drove north on Market Street, according to reports.

Friday outage

YOUNGSTOWN

A mechanical failure at an electric substation left about 3,900 Ohio Edison customers without power for two hours.

Power was lost about 12:15 a.m. Friday and was restored to all customers by 2:15 a.m., said David Turner, Ohio Edison’s area manager for Mahoning and Columbiana counties. The customers who lost power were in Youngstown, Struthers, Campbell and Coitsville, he said.

Youngstown Relay

YOUNGSTOWN

The American Cancer Society’s Youngstown Relay for Life is Friday and next Saturday at the track at Youngstown State University’s Beeghly Center, One University Plaza.

The event, rescheduled from April 16-17, begins with the opening ceremony at 6 p.m. Friday and ends at 11 a.m. Saturday. Friday’s activities include a survivor/caregiver lap at 6:30 p.m., a luminaria ceremony at 9 p.m., and themed laps, a scavenger hunt, contest and prizes at 10 p.m. On Saturday, the fight back ceremony is at 9:30 a.m., and the closing ceremony and awards is at 11 a.m.

Relay for Life is ACS’s signature event at which teams of local cancer survivors and their family, friends and others from the community walk to raise awareness and funds.

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