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Officers find dead dog

YOUNGSTOWN

Officers found a dead dog in a driveway shortly after it had been shot, police report.

An officer went to West LaClede Avenue at 6:47 a.m. Tuesday after a woman reported hearing a shot and a dog yelp.

When officers searched the area, they saw a large brown akita wearing a black collar lying in the driveway of a home. It had a bullet hole in its side.

The homeowner told police he doesn’t know who the dog belongs to and didn’t hear the shot.

A humane agent came to take the dog to Animal Charity pending an investigation.

Photography exhibit

YOUNGSTOWN

Mill Creek MetroParks’ annual Nature Photography Exhibit begins Saturday in the Weller Gallery at Fellows Riverside Gardens, 120 McKinley Way.

The talent of local amateur photographers will be on display as you stroll through several hundred images of their best work. The exhibit runs through March 20 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.

In the auditorium of the D.D. & Velma Davis Visitor Center at Fellows is the exhibit’s kickoff event — North to Alaska — with retired Cleveland MetroParks naturalist Ken Gober.

Gober has made 29 trips to Alaska, and invites you to view the sights of the 49th state with him at 2 p.m. Sunday.

Search warrant executed

ELKRUN

Authorities seized half an ounce of heroin, drug paraphernalia, a car, an unknown amount of money and a number of suspected stolen tools and electronic items when they executed a search warrant.

The Columbiana County Drug Task Force and the Columbiana County Sheriff’s Special Response Team executed the search warrant at 9884 Elkton - West Point Road Tuesday morning.

John Gilbert Short, 32, who lives in the house, was arrested on a second-degree charge of possession of heroin. Authorities said that the arrest came after a four month investigation.

Family disagreement

YOUNGSTOWN

A 20-year-old city woman told police that her cousin slapped and choked her before stealing her purse.

Police said the woman and her cousin had a disagreement over food stamps. Reports state that the woman’s cousin and several other people came into the woman’s Pine Hollow Drive home around 7:20 p.m. Monday. The woman told officers she was spat on, slapped and choked, and said her cousin stole her purse, which contained $68, $150 worth of food stamps and identification cards.

Breakfast meeting

NILES

The Trumbull County Republican Party will have its monthly breakfast meeting at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in the community room at the Eastwood Mall near Dillards. For more information, call 330-883-4755.

Jewelry theft reported

BOARDMAN

Managers at LeRoy’s Jewelers in the Southern Park Mall reported more than $35,000 in jewelry and cash missing in what police say was an internal theft. The theft was traced back to July 2010, and store managers suspect a former employee took the jewelry and cash, according to police reports.

Multiple charges

BOARDMAN

A 30-year-old North Lima man already in jail was charged with theft and receiving stolen property.

Boardman police booked Justin Black at the Mahoning County jail, where he was previously sent after being charged with obstructing official business, resisting arrest, escape and a failure-to-appear warrant from Campbell police. Officers said on Jan. 30, Black led police on a foot chase through a Boardman shopping plaza, later escaped from St. Elizabeth Health Center in Boardman and was finally apprehended by Beaver Township police across from his Maplecroft Road residence.

Easter Seals campaign

Komara Jewelers in Canfield and Howland are participating in Easter Seals’ Have A Heart campaign. Customers will be paid cash for gold, platinum and silver, and for every transaction Komara will make a donation to Easter Seals. Komara’s store hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.