Senator sworn in

Senator sworn in

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Lou Gentile, a Democrat from Steubenville, was sworn in Tuesday as an Ohio senator representing the 30th District.

The district currently includes Columbiana County. But state redistricting will remove that county from the 30th effective in January 2013. At that point, it will join Mahoning County in the new 33rd District.

Jason Wilson, a Democrat from Columbiana, resigned last month to become director of the governor’s office of Appalachia.

Gentile, a first-year Ohio House member, was selected Nov. 30 by the Ohio Senate Democratic Caucus to fill the rest of Wilson’s term, which expires Dec. 31, 2012. Gentile was officially sworn in Tuesday.

Workday scheduled

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An Idora neighborhood workday is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, rain or shine.

Participants will meet at Youngstown Playhouse on Glenwood Avenue. Volunteers will cut, paint and install boards to secure vacant houses.residences. For information, contact Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. at 330-480-0423.

Investigating fatal crash

ROGERS

The Ohio State Highway Patrol is still investigating the cause of a single-car accident in Columbiana County that killed three people.

Troopers said a car driven by Ceara Burns, 19, of Negley, was traveling east on Dyke Road in Middleton Township about 9:45 p.m. Monday and drove off the right side of the road, hitting a tree. The two passengers, Jonathan Welsh, 23, of Elkton, and Joshua Carlin, 24, of Negley, also were killed, reports state. All three were dead when the patrol arrived.

Pipe bomb found

LAKE MILTON

Police and state park officials are still looking for information about how a pipe bomb ended up in Lake Milton State Park.

A pipe bomb with a 2-inch diameter and about a foot long was found on the island off the Pointview Boat Ramp on Lake Milton and taken to the park office Monday, police said.

The Youngstown Bomb Squad was able to detonate the bomb safely Monday. Anyone with information is asked to call Milton police or the state park office.

GOP meeting set

NILES

The Trumbull County Young Republicans will meet at 7 p.m. Friday at the Trumbull County Republican Party Headquarters, in the Eastwood Mall, Suite 750, between Dillard’s and the license bureau. All interested people age 40 and under are invited to attend, including high school and college students. For information, call 330-883-4755.

Robber sought

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are looking for the man who tried to rob the Dollar General store on McGuffey Road at gunpoint.

According to police, a black man, with a shaven head, wearing a plaid jacket, blue hoodie and light-blue jeans came into the store at 7:40 p.m. Monday and pointed something concealed in his jacket pocket at the clerk, demanding money.

The clerk said she couldn’t open the drawer. The man threatened to kill her unless he was given all the money in the drawer. He left when a customer came in.

Police searched the area, but could not find the man.