June spelling bee

June spelling bee

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The 25th Annual Spelling Bee sponsored by the Trumbull Retired Teachers Association will be at 1 p.m. June 30 at the Trumbull County Fairgrounds.

Pre-registration runs through May 28. Pre- registration will allow free fair admission (rides not included) for all pre- registered spellers, grades one through eight.

To pre-register for the event, call Denise Deltondo at 330-530-4011. Students wishing to participate in the bee may do so even if they have not pre-registered. They can register at the fair from noon to 12:45 p.m. June 30 on the historical stage.

Facing 2nd charge

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William Exline, 31,of East Broadway Street, is charged with a second count of aggravated menacing because of threats he made to a 28-year-old woman about killing her. Exline is in Trumbull County Jail after an incident Wednesday evening in which he purportedly stabbed Officer Tim O’Leary. The woman reported the threat earlier Wednesday before the disturbance incident that resulted in Exline’s arrest.

Juvenile sought

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Police are looking for a juvenile male who robbed two women at gunpoint about 10 p.m. Wednesday in the 200 block of East Liberty Street.

The victim, who lost her purse with identification and $1,420 in cash, told police the juvenile had come to her door earlier and was looking for “Tim.” She told him no one by that name lived there. Later, when the victim and a neighbor were in a car on the street preparing to leave, the juvenile confronted them with a handgun and took the victim’s purse.

The juvenile fled, and a neighbor, who heard yelling, chased him. The juvenile fired a shot; the neighbor was unhurt.

Another resident on the street reported a similar incident of the juvenile’s coming to the door that day, but that neighbor was not robbed.

Word workshop

YOUNGSTOWN

A free workshop on the basics of Microsoft Word will be offered from 7 to 9 p.m. May 16 at Cornersburg Baptist Church, 3898 Tippecanoe Road, Youngstown.

Participants should bring their own computers and their own copies of Microsoft Word. A compatible word processor such as the free Open Office will work as well. You can obtain it at www.openoffice.org.

For information or registration, call 330-702-8959.

Man charged

NEW CASTLE, Pa. (AP)

A city man is jailed on charges that he sent lewd text messages to a girl staying in his home, then spanked and indecently assaulted her.

Online court records do not list an attorney for 42-year-old Brad Korpela, of New Castle, who’s charged with aggravated indecent assault, simple assault and harassment. A phone listed in his name was not in service Friday.

Korpela reportedly sent text messages to a girl sleeping in his home, instructing her to come downstairs so he could spank her early Saturday. Police say Korpela did that with a wooden paddle with holes drilled in it but only after ordering her to undress and bend over a chair. Police say Korpela threatened to do the same thing to the girl’s friend, also sleeping upstairs, if she resisted.

Free for mothers

SALEM

Mothers will be admitted free when accompanied by another person to the Salem Historical Society Museum, 208 S. Broadway Ave., on Sunday, which is Mother’s Day. The museum is open from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.