Thorogood, blues fest move inside Covelli Centre

Thorogood, blues fest move inside Covelli Centre

YOUNGSTOWN

The Covelli Centre, 229 E. Front St., will have the Second Annual Tangled Up in Blues Fest indoors today due to threats of inclement weather.

The show will go on as scheduled with doors opening at 6 p.m. and the show beginning at 7 p.m.

General-admission ticket holders may not bring their own chairs as previously instructed; rather, they may use the arena bowl-seating on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Best known for his hit “Bad to the Bone,” George Thorogood, who headlines the show, has released 16 studio albums, two of which were certified platinum, and six have been certified gold.

General admission tickets are $25, and Gold Circle seats are $49 and can be purchased online at www.ticketmaster.com and at the Covelli Centre box office at 800-745-3000. The Covelli box office will be open at 10 a.m. today.

Police accuse man with gun in cinema NILES

A man accused of brandishing a shotgun at the Regal movie theater near the Eastwood Mall will be arraigned in Niles Municipal Court on Aug. 21 on a misdemeanor inducing-panic charge.

Matthew C. Kopp, 18, of state Route 305, Southington, was one of four young males involved in the 1:42 a.m. Tuesday episode.

The three other males were juveniles, and they will face misdemeanor inducing-panic charges in Trumbull County Juvenile Court.

A person called 911 saying the four males pointed a shotgun at other people and “racked it” at the theater, Niles police said.

Howland police, who initially received the call, located the males at the nearby Super K store and detained them.

Niles police took them into custody after witnesses identified them as the individuals who had pointed the gun. Police also recovered a shotgun.

Road closed in park

Youngstown

Robinson Hill Drive in the Mill Creek MetroParks will be closed to vehicular traffic beginning Monday.

The road will be closed for several months for bridge repair work and road improvements, according to the MetroParks. Throughout August, park patrons will have access to Slippery Rock Pavilion for rental use from the northern end of Robinson Hill Drive.

Man faces drug charge

NORTH JACKSON

The Mahoning Valley Law Enforcement Task Force arrested a North Jackson man on a charge of trafficking in methamphetamines after a three-month investigation.

The task force and the Trumbull Ashtabula Drug Unit executed a search warrant Thursday at 31-year-old Elias Lee Bray’s home at 2460 S. Salem-Warren Road. During the search, investigators found a methamphetamine lab and arrested Bray.

Assisting agencies were the Drug Enforcement Administration, Youngstown Clandestine Lab Team, the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office and Jackson Township police.

Call on Romney

Youngstown

State Rep. Robert F. Hagan, on behalf of the President Barack Obama campaign, called on Mitt Romney — again — to release more of his tax returns. Hagan of Youngstown, D-60th, said the refusal of Romney is telling.

“If he’s paying his fair share, release” the returns, Hagan said Friday outside City Hall. Romney released his 2010 return and an estimate of his 2011 return in January but has declined to make public the returns of other years.

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