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Competency hearing

WARREN

A hearing will be at 9 a.m. Sept. 14 to determine if Felicia Banks Beemer, 21, is competent to stand trial on charges she raped her 9-month-old daughter and committed other sex offenses. The hearing will be before Judge W. Wyatt McKay of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

The reported rape, which police say is captured on cellphone video, touched off an investigation of the Trumbull County Children Services agency because the acts reportedly took place at the agency’s offices on Reeves Road during a visitation.

Died of heart attack

NEW SPRINGFIELD

The Mahoning County deputy coroner said Thursday that an elderly man involved in a single-vehicle crash appears to have died of a heart attack.

Solomon Evans, 81, of Youngstown, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which occurred at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Springfield Township on North Lima Road just south of the Five Points intersection, said Dr. Joseph Ohr.

“It looks very much to me that he did indeed die of natural causes,” Dr. Ohr said.

Crash into complex

BOARDMAN

Boardman police were called to Mill Creek Village apartments at 11 a.m. Thursday when an elderly woman crashed her car into the complex at 6821 Lockwood Blvd.

An ambulance was called to take the woman to the hospital, police said. A woman inside the apartment where the car struck the building suffered minor injuries, according to reports.

Street closures

YOUNGSTOWN

These streets will be closed from noon to 9 p.m. Saturday for community block parties:

Parkwood Avenue between Glenwood and Overland avenues on the city’s South Side.

Regis Avenue between Jacobs and Knapp roads on the city’s East Side.

Lockbox date change

YOUNGSTOWN

The date has changed for a lockbox giveaway to keep prescription drugs safe and will be Monday at select Mahoning Valley Walgreens.

Valley businessman Mike Boccia, co-founder and chief executive of MedSafe Inc., has donated 50 medication lockboxes to Drug Free America Foundation’s campaign encouraging people to lock up their medications and keep kids safe.

Boccia donated $5,000 in MedSafes, the digital medication lockbox his company manufactures, after learning of “Operation: Medication Lockbox Giveaway” and the statistics of drug abuse locally. Select Walgreens sites will give away free lockboxes to the first customers with a new or transferred prescription. For information, go to www.LockboxGiveaway.com.

Young Republicans

NILES

The Trumbull County Young Republicans will meet at the Mitt Romney Victory Center office in the Great East Plaza at 7 p.m. today. The guest speaker is Pat Paridon, the Republican candidate for the 63rd Ohio House District.

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