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Whitetails fundraiser

CANFIELD

Whitetails Unlimited is sponsoring the Mahoning Valley Chapter Whitetails Unlimited fundraising banquet and wild-game dinner Wednesday at Mill Creek Metroparks’ McMahon Hall, 7574 state Route 62.

The event, which begins with a social hour at 5:30 p.m., features wild game, an auction, door prizes and sporting equipment. Ticket-order deadline is Monday. Tickets are $100 with membership and gun-drawing entry; $50 for dinner and drinks only; and $50 for children 15 and younger. Tickets will not be sold at the door. To order tickets, call Rob Palowitz at 330-599-4140 or Dennis Malloy Jr. at 330-507-9489.

Whitetails Unlimited is a national, nonprofit conservation organization that addresses local, state and national issues involving whitetail deer and their habitat.

Free meals for vets

WARREN

Ponderosa Restaurant, 3581 Elm Road N.E., is offering a free buffet and beverage to veterans and military personnel from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday during its Freedom to Celebrate Our Heroes event.

Parent conferences

CAMPBELL

Campbell city schools ha ve scheduled fall parent-teacher conferences for kindergarten through 12th grades from 4 to 9 p.m. Nov. 22. There will be no classes Nov. 23-25 for the Thanksgiving recess.

Sobriety checkpoint today in Boardman

BOARDMAN

The Mahoning County OVI Task Force announced Friday that a sobriety checkpoint will be conducted in Boardman today to deter and intercept impaired drivers. The exact location of the checkpoint will be announced today.

Federal probe of Erie police dept.

ERIE, Pa. (AP)

Erie’s police chief says the U.S. Department of Labor is investigating possible “wage and hours” violations over a policy that gave detectives the option of taking weekdays off in exchange for working weekends.

Federal rules require detectives working weekends to receive time-and-a-half overtime pay if they worked more than 40 hours that week, but Chief Steve Franklin tells the Erie Times-News (http://bit.ly/rGHXo2 ) that didn’t happen. Franklin and Mayor Joe Sennett say nobody intentionally broke the law, and that the detectives had agreed to the long-standing policy which let them switch days off at their own request.

Franklin says one detective complained about the policy, however, setting off the investigation which a Labor Department spokeswoman confirmed was ongoing.

The chief says the city may wind up having to pay detectives for past overtime.

Girl, 5, beaten over troubles with ABCs

AKRON (AP)

Police in Akron have accused a man of beating his 5-year-old daughter because she was having trouble with her alphabet homework. Police tell The Akron Beacon Journal the kindergartner was struggling to recognize the letter D on Tuesday when Christopher Curry became angry. Curry has been charged with felonious assault, child endangering and domestic violence.

1st snow of season

CLEVELAND (AP)

The season’s first blast of lake effect snow has fallen on northeast Ohio, with some areas seeing as much as a half-foot. But the National Weather Service doesn’t expect the snow that came down early Friday morning to be around for long thanks to warmer temperatures today. Some areas in northern Trumbull County received 5 inches of snow.

Arm amputated

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP)

A man lost his arm in an industrial accident in an eastern Pennsylvania factory that produces snack foods, including peanuts for the New York Yankees.

Berks-Lehigh Regional police say the worker lost his arm from the elbow down. It was unclear if his arm would be able to be reattached. His name wasn’t released.