Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Free parking
youngstown
Home Savings is providing free parking around the Youngstown State University campus this week.
“It’s just a nice gesture for the first week of school,” said Colleen Scott, vice president of marketing. “The first week back can be stressful, so this is just one less thing to worry about.”
YSU classes start Wednesday.
Home Savings worked with Ampco Parking to pay for parking at between 90 and 100 meters on parts of Wood and Phelps streets and Lincoln and Rayen avenues. Meters with free parking are covered with a Home Savings bag.
“We wanted to do something for YSU to show them how important they are to us,” Scott said. “We have a great partnership with the university, and we look forward to continuing our relationship with them.”
Road closings
Youngstown
Mill Creek MetroParks will close Price Road, West Glacier Drive, West Drive, and the Price Road entrance of Fellows Riverside Gardens from 7 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday for the Covelli Panerathon 10K Race.
Cause of death
Austintown
Mahoning County coroner has ruled that a semi-truck driver’s cause of death was “cardiovascular in nature.” Roger B. Watkins, of Austintown, crashed his truck Friday in the southbound lane of state Route 11 at the Kirk Road overpass in the township.
Watkins suffered minimal injuries in the crash, and the coroner’s report indicated the accident occurred as a result of a heart problem.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol found nothing at the scene indicating that drugs or alcohol were a factor. Toxicology reports are pending.
Opening statements
YOUNGSTOWN
Opening statements will be at 9 a.m. today in the trial of Columbus Jones Jr., 23, of Cambridge Avenue, in the shooting death of Jamail Johnson, a 25-year-old Youngstown State University senior, and the wounding of 11 other people at a house party on Indiana Avenue near the YSU campus Feb. 6, 2011. The trial is before Judge John M. Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. Jones is charged with murder, 11 counts of felonious assault with firearm specifications and discharging a gun at or into a habitation.
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