METRO DIGEST || Teen killed in Sebring crash

Teen killed in crash

SEBRING

Jesse E. Mitchell, 19, of Alliance was killed in a two-car crash at the intersection of Knox School and Hartley roads just south of Sebring at 9:08 p.m. Friday.

Mitchell was driving a 2003 Chevy Cavalier eastbound on Hartley Road when his car collided with a southbound 1996 Toyota Celica driven by Connor R. Sell, 19, of Damascus. Mitchell was pronounced dead at the scene.

Sell and his passenger, Taylor R. Steed, 16, were transported to Aultman Hospital in Canton for treatment of injuries not deemed life-threatening.

The crash remains under investigation, said the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Lisbon post.

Climate & the poor

villa maria, pa.

Villa Maria Education and Spirituality Center will offer a program from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday on how climate change affects the world’s poor. Sister Barbara O’Donnell, an ambassador for the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change, will lead the program. Cost is $20, which includes lunch and snacks. For information, call 724-964-8886, or visit www.villaprograms.org.

Ticket for food

Youngstown

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus will help stock the shelves of Second Harvest Food Bank of Mahoning Valley by offering an opportunity to donate canned goods in exchange for a ticket to see any one of the performances when the circus comes to the Covelli Centre March 30 to April 2. Anyone who brings 10 cans of nonperishable food to the donation event March 3 at the Covelli will receive one free ticket voucher. There is a limit of two vouchers per family, and only 400 vouchers will be given.

The food bank distributes about 40,000 pounds of food each day and feeds more than 13,000 people every week.

Cemetery cleanup

Youngstown

The annual cleanup of Tod Cemetery will take place March 15. All decorations not collected by owners will be removed at that time.

No record of victim

WARREN

ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital had no record Saturday of Jeremiah Allen, 18, of Taylor Street , who was in serious condition as late as Thursday night after being shot in the back Wednesday on North Feederle Avenue.

Police were called at 12:25 a.m. Wednesday about gunshots being fired near the intersection of Feederle and Hazelwood avenues. They found broken glass in the street. As officers were searching, they were advised that TMH was treating Allen for a gunshot wound.

At the hospital, an officer found Allen’s car with the rear window broken out and damage where a bullet hit the door frame. Doctors said Allen had a life-threatening wound in the area just below the shoulder blade, police said.