Sentence postponed

Sentence postponed

WARREN

Kenneth Overholt Jr., the former owner of Overholt’s Champion Pharmacy and a former Champion Township trustee, returned to court Thursday for sentencing on five counts of aggravated drug trafficking but remains free.

Judge John M. Stuard of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court agreed to hold off for six more months before Overholt must return to court for possible sentencing.

The judge has delayed sentencing already for about 10 months because Overholt is extremely ill with a chronic lung condition.

Overholt and two of his employees filled thousands of prescriptions for a now-deceased Middlefield pain-management doctor in 2007 and 2008, prosecutors said.

The prescriptions were for dangerous drugs in volumes of as much as 10 times the normal daily amount.

Fundraiser planned

BOARDMAN

St. Dominic Church will have a dinner at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Mr. Anthony’s, 7440 South Ave. The cost is $40 per person. The dinner also includes musical entertainment, raffle and silent and basket auctions. The proceeds will help equip the kitchen of the church’s new $1.3 million parish center, which is set for a ground-breaking ceremony April 25.

For information, call 330-783-1900.

Free produce

WARREN

The Warren Family Mission, 361 Elm Road NE, is offering free fresh produce today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For information, call the Warren Family Mission at 330-394-5437.

Roadway cleanup

YOUNGSTOWN

Ohio Department of Transportation crews and local volunteer groups will be picking up litter along Ohio’s roadways all week in conjunction with the “Great American Cleanup.”

It costs Ohio about $4 million each year to pick up litter, according to ODOT.

Through the Adopt-A-Highway program, ODOT has nearly 1,400 groups statewide that have adopted a two-mile section or an interchange along the state highway system, picking up litter and debris a minimum of four times each year. The Boardman Fraternal Order of Police will clean up Market Street from U.S. Route 224 to about Midlothian Boulevard on Saturday.

Interested groups can go online to www.transportation.ohio.gov and look for the Adopt-a-Highway icon.

Robbery probed

Boardman

Police are looking into a breaking and entering after an employee discovered $1,275 missing from the safe at McDonald’s at 1110 Boardman-Poland Road. The employee found the safe undamaged but all the money inside missing early Thursday.

Man faces charges

Campbell

A Madison Street man faces domestic violence and resisting arrest charges, accused of threatening his wife and running from police.

Daron Little, 45, was being held without bond in the city jail pending his court appearance this morning.

Police were called to Little’s home about 10:15 p.m. Wednesday where Little’s wife told them that he had threatened to harm her and had ripped a telephone from the wall.

When police told Little he was being arrested, he ran out of the house and onto Murray Avenue with police officers following him, yelling for him to stop. They caught him on Murray. One officer twisted his ankle during the pursuit.