TMH safety fair

TMH safety fair

WARREN

The Trumbull Memorial Hospital Orthopedic & Safety Fair will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today in the hospital’s parking lot, 1350 E. Market St. The event is free.

There will be a variety of screenings offered along with educational displays. A helicopter, ambulance and firetrucks will be on display and emergency-medical service responders will discuss safety measures.

There will also be entertainment, including clowns, Howland High School cheerleaders, and a karate demonstration.

Appeal on SB 5

YOUNGSTOWN

Atty. David Betras, Mahoning County Democratic Party chairman, asked the county commissioners Thursday to back nonrenewal of county agency memberships in the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber because of the chamber’s support of Ohio Senate Bill 5, which was signed into law and would limit some public-employee collective-bargaining rights.

An effort is under way by the group We Are Ohio to repeal the law by getting enough signatures on petitions to place it on the November ballot.

Betras’ list of county agencies belonging to the chamber included the alcohol and drug-addiction services board, mental health board, board of developmental disabilities, recycling division, educational-services center, and emergency-management agency.

New Castle crash

NEW CASTLE, Pa.

A Thursday afternoon police pursuit ended with a two-vehicle crash. Police were chasing a suspect for reportedly stealing a construction vehicle from Mahoning Township, according to The Vindicator’s broadcast partner 21 WFMJ-TV.

The suspect crashed the vehicle into another vehicle in downtown New Castle at the corner of Jefferson and Falls streets.

Both the suspect and the driver of the other vehicle were taken to a local hospital. There was no word late Thursday on their conditions.

Tossed out of car

Youngstown

Police are investigating why a man tossed a 47-year-old woman from a vehicle Thursday afternoon in the vicinity of Fairgreen and Ohio avenues on the city’s North Side.

A few minutes later, witnesses reported the man returned in his car, tossing a pair of flip-flops at the woman before fleeing the scene again.

Interviewed by police at St. Elizabeth Health Center’s emergency room, she told police she didn’t know the man or the vehicle, but he “jumped her and threw her out.” According to police, the victim appeared to be intoxicated. Police continue searching for the suspect.

I-77 shooter sought

CANTON

Ohio State Highway Patrol is seeking the public’s assistance in locating two men who were driving a black SUV north on Interstate 77 in in Stark County at 4 a.m. Thursday morning. One of the SUV’s occupants fired a single round into a passing vehicle’s driver’s side door.