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Woman killed in crash

NORTH JACKSON

Danielle A. Dota, 36, of Mineral Ridge, was killed in a two-vehicle crash at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the intersection of Bailey and Gladstone roads in Jackson Township.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol reported that Dota, driving a 2004 Saturn Ion westbound on Gladstone, pulled out from the intersection and was struck on the driver side by a tractor-trailer traveling north on Bailey. The impact caused the steel coils carried by the truck to spill onto the road and the vehicles to go off the left side of the road and stop in the median.

Dota was pronounced dead at the scene by the Mahoning County Coroner’s Office. The truck driver, Corey R. Oss, 28, of Mercer, Pa., was not injured.

The crash, is under investigation.

Robbery on Benita

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are investigating the armed robbery of a 55-year-old man as he slept at a friend’s Benita Avenue home Monday. The man told police he was sleeping in an upstairs bedroom just before 2 p.m. and was awakened by a black man in a red jogging suit and white tennis shoes standing over him with a gun. The thief got $27 and a handgun.

Robbers sentenced

WARREN

Samantha Phillips, the 20-year-old Edgehill Avenue Southeast woman who participated in the June 24, 2011, robbery at Dunkin’ Donuts on Niles-Cortland Road in Howland, will serve six months in Trumbull County jail. Judge Andrew Logan of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court also sentenced Phillips to five years’ probation, ordered her to perform 50 hours of community service and pay restitution in an amount to be determined later. Police say Phillips, who worked at the doughnut shop at the time of the robbery, participated in the planning and was the employee who was confronted outside while taking out the trash and gave the armed robbers money out of the safe.

Corey C. Monroe, 19, of Belvedere Avenue, was sentenced to six years in prison for a June 24, 2011, Niles home invasion and burglary and his role in the Dunkin’ Donuts robbery.

Daniel P. Hoolihan Jr., 20, of Edgewood Drive, received a 10-year prison sentence for the two robberies.

Records suit settled

BROOKFIELD

A Hubbard woman’s public-records lawsuit against Brookfield Township has been resolved with an out-of-court settlement. Judge W. Wyatt McKay of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court dismissed the suit at the township’s cost April 3. Kachaylo filed the complaint Aug. 26, 2010, after making numerous public-records requests with the township fiscal officer, Sylvia Addicott, and being told that some of the records had been erased as a result of a computer crash.

Some of the records Kachaylo sought were “daily logs” of the firefighters who worked for the township fire department between 1995 and ’99. Those documents were needed, Kachaylo said, to show the hours her husband, Brian Kachaylo, had worked as a firefighter/paramedic in order to show he had not been paid properly during that time.

Attacking dog killed

WARREN

A Warren police officer shot and killed a pit-bull dog that attacked a chained dog in its backyard at 708 Delaware Ave. SW at 9:10 a.m. Sunday.

When an officer arrived, a woman was trying to free the pit bull from the chained yellow lab by hitting the pit bull with a pool stick and golf club, but she was unsuccessful.

The officer reported that both dogs were bleeding around their faces and necks. The officer killed the large, white pit bull with a gunshot.

United BOE to meet

Hanoverton

United school board will meet in special session at 6:30 p.m. today in the elementary library. The board will adjourn to executive session. No action will be taken.

Park Vista open house

YOUNGSTOWN

The Mahoning Valley’s longest-operating retirement community plans “Discover Park Vista Open House” from 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday. Registration will be in the lobby of Park Vista North, 1310 Fifth Ave. For information, call 330-746-2944. The day will feature campus tours, information, prizes and giveaways.