Vindy Block Party

Vindy Block Party

YOUNGSTOWN

The Vindicator’s Newspaper in Education Block Party is coming up. The party gives everyone the chance to buy $50 gift certificates to area merchants for only $30. See Tuesday’s Vindicator for complete details.

YPD probes shooting

YOUNGSTOWN

Richard Labooth, 34, of 560 East Avondale Ave. and Jeffrey J. Rivera, 24, of 35 North Bruce Street were shot several times at 441 Lora Avenue and driven to St. Elizabeth Health Center at 11:36 p.m. Friday.

Police said 43 shots were fired at the Lora address, and police collected multiple bullet casings and bullet fragments.

Labooth was listed in good condition after being shot several times in the legs. Rivera was shot several times in the leg, back and arm. The hospital had no condition on him Sunday evening.

When Youngstown police made contact with Labooth, who was inside a car being driven erratically on Juanita Avenue on the North Side, Labooth said shots were fired from a car driving past him on Lora Avenue while Labooth was standing in the front yard of an abandoned home.

Police recovered a weapon from the vehicle that brought Rivera to the hospital.

Multiple charges

YOUNGSTOWN

Tequie Clinkscale, 20, of North Wickliffe Circle, Austintown, was charged with two counts of felonious assault and single counts of aggravated robbery and resisting arrest after an incident at 2:57 p.m. Sunday at her mother’s house at 936 Lanterman Avenue in which Clinkscale allegedly discharged pepper spray in her mother’s friend’s face.

Aferward, Clinkscale is accused of taking the woman’s purse and removing $75 in cash and a camera. Police found Clinkscale at a house on East Philadelphia Avenue with a cut on her face.

Clinkscale fought with the officer attempting to arrest her and elbowed him in the stomach. Officers found a container of pepper spray on the ground near Clinkscale. She admitted it was hers.

Meal program grows

EAST LIVERPOOL

Catholic Charities Senior Center, a program of the Catholic Charities Regional Agency, will expand its meal program to include a free community meal for people in need.

The free meals will be offered from 2 to 5 p.m. on the third and fourth Thursdays of the month at the Catholic Charities Senior Center, 600 E. Fourth St. The first meal will be served Dec. 27.

Resources will be available offering information on other programs provided by Catholic Charities such as assistance with transportation, referrals to community resources, emergency assistance, other hot-meal programs and assistance with prescription medications to those who qualify.

For information, call 330-385-4732.