Appeals court judge runs for high court

Appeals court judge runs for high court

CLeveland

Former District Court Of Appeals Judge William Michael O’Neill announced his candidacy for the Supreme Court of Ohio.

O’Neill, 64, retired from the 11th District Court of Appeals where he served from 1997 to 2007, including two terms as presiding judge. He was elected to the court of appeals in 1996 and re-elected in 2002.

Judge O’Neill graduated from Ohio University and Cleveland Marshall College of Law. He is a retired lieutenant colonel in the Army and was awarded the Bronze Star for service in Vietnam. He works as a pediatric emergency- room nurse and has four grown children.

Struthers road grant

struthers

The city has been awarded $87,900 toward a resurfacing project for Lowellville Road next year.

Gary Diorio of the city’s engineering firm MS Consultants told Mayor Terry Stocker that the Ohio Public Works Commission ranked the city’s project No. 1 out of 58 projects submitted for funding from communities in Mahoning and Trumbull counties.

Federal funds totaling $361,000 already have been awarded to the city for the project through the Eastgate Regional Council of Governments. Total project cost is $449,000.

Do-it-yourself legal aid in Trumbull Co.

WARREN

Trumbull County Family Court judges Pam Rintala and Richard James have collaborated with Community Legal Aid, a nonprofit law firm for low-income people, to provide free online forms for self- represented litigants.

The website to obtain them is www.familycourt.co.trumbull.oh.us. Use the “Do It Yourself Legal Forms” link.

The forms are available for use with uncontested divorces, dissolutions and modifications to visitation and child-support in Domestic Court and Juvenile Court.

The online forms are designed to provide easier access to the judicial system, as well as minimize the time it takes the court to review and approve filings.

Shop with a cop

NILES

The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 137, representing Trumbull County Sheriff’s deputies, will have its annual Shop With a Cop program at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 6. The evening will start with pizza at Cici’s Pizza on state Route 46, followed by a trip to the nearby Super Kmart for shopping. Each child will have $100 to spend.

Two 21-year-olds face weapon charges

YOUNGSTOWN

Police charged two 21-year-old Youngstown men with carrying a concealed weapon and other offenses Friday in separate incidents.

Ryan D. Friendly of Woodside Avenue was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, possession of dangerous drugs and drug abuse after police were called to the Western Reserve Transit Authority bus station on West Federal Street at 11:37 a.m. A security guard said he observed Friendly in a restroom stall smoking suspected marijuana. Friendly purportedly handed the guard two small bags of suspected marijuana.

The guard also found a pistol on Friendly, as well as a bottle labeled as Xanax prescribed to another person. Friendly was taken to the Mahoning County jail.

Ian D. Thomas of East Florida Avenue was also jailed, charged with carrying a concealed weapon and receiving stolen property after police were called to Mahoning and Lakeview avenues at 1:57 p.m. for a man in a purple shirt with a gun. They spotted a man fitting that description, but the man ran through the front yard of a home, then disappeared inside a house. An officer found a loaded handgun under the cushion of the love seat just inside the door.