Seeking DNA in case

Seeking DNA in case

YOUNGSTOWN

Jamar Houser is to go on trial for the Jan. 23, 2010, killing of Angeline Fimognari, 80, in the parking lot of St. Dominic Church on East Lucius Avenue, but a county judge has ordered a state testing facility to supply DNA material essential to the case by Jan. 13. On Wednesday, Judge Lou A. D’Apolito of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court ordered the DNA material to be supplied. Houser has been awaiting trial in the county jail since his arrest in January 2010.

Teen faces charges

NILES

A 17-year-old boy with addresses in Youngstown and Niles was taken to the Trumbull County Juvenile Justice Center on Monday evening, charged with four counts of aggravated robbery, four counts of kidnapping and one count of aggravated burglary. Police refused to release the boy’s name.

Police were called at 8:57 p.m. to Morris Avenue, where three males and a female, all in their 20s, reported that the juvenile had entered the home with a gun through an unlocked door, demanded money and held the four at gunpoint.

In a scuffle that ensued, the gun went off, but no one was injured. The juvenile fled to a nearby house, where Niles police arrested him and recovered some of the stolen money but not the gun.

Dye-testing water

Canfield

Residents who noticed green water in a stream near St. Michael Church shouldn’t be alarmed, city officials said.

City Manager Joe Warino said they city has been dye- testing water sources in the Garwood Drive area using an environmentally safe dye.

“We’re looking for points of infiltration from storm sewers or sanitary sewers,” he said. Warino said the testing will last for another couple of weeks, and any noticeable color will dissipate from water within one to two days.

Blessing of waters

youngstown

Members of the Eastern Orthodox Clergy Association of Mahoning Valley will conduct a blessing of the waters ceremony at 3 p.m. Friday, the Feast of Theophany, the baptism of Jesus, at Lake Glacier in Mill Creek MetroParks. The group will meet in the parking lot off of Glenwood Avenue for the service, which is open to all and will take place on the water’s edge.

Pizza robber sought

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are looking for the man who robbed a pizza- delivery man at gunpoint on the West Side. The 51-year-old delivery man was trying to deliver a pizza to a home in the 200 block of Steel Street at 7 p.m. Tuesday when a black male in his late teens standing about 5 feet 10 inches and weighing about 140 pounds pulled a gun and demanded the pizza and his wallet. The thief was wearing a long blue coat, dark pants and a dark hat. He fired one shot in the air and threatened to shoot the driver before running off.

Commission meetings

Youngstown

Youngstown Civil Service Commission regular meetings will be on the third Wednesday of every month at 4 p.m. in the Civil Service Commission Office, City Hall, seventh floor, 26 S. Phelps St.