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Break-in at store

POLAND

Village police are investigating a break-in at the Poland Gas & Food Mart, 57 N. Main St. The break-in occurred either late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning, police said.

A window was broken an ATM and cash register taken, according to reports.

Identity fraud

BOARDMAN

Police are investigating a case of identity fraud in which a woman says her General Motors employee discount was used fraudulently during transactions at a Market Street car dealership.

The woman told police her employee discount was used on six transactions at Sweeney Chevrolet beginning February 2005, according to reports.

Records state the woman received a letter Friday from GM asking her to repay the more than $18,000 in discounts, even though she has told GM that she did not know about the purchases.

TV stolen at Kmart

BOARDMAN

Police are looking for a man who reportedly kicked open the back door of a Kmart store and ran out with a television.

Employees at the Kmart on U.S. Route 224 told police a white man about 5-feet 9-inches tall, 240 pounds, in his early 30s with sandy hair picked up a television in the store about 4:15 p.m. Tuesday. Police said the man kicked and pounded the store’s back door, damaging it, and then ran out the back door and tossed the TV in the back of a red pickup truck before speeding off.

Employees did get the truck’s license plate, but it belonged to another car and was reported stolen in Beaver Township.

Teen girls found

New castle, pa.

Pennsylvania State Police said two Enon Valley teenage sisters, last seen Monday, were found safe Tuesday around 1 p.m. and returned home.

Police, who would not say where the girls were found, said Samantha Renee McClintick, 16, and Brianna Kathleen McClintick, 13, both of Houston Road, between Pa. Route 76 and Scott-Wallace Road in Little Beaver Township in Lawrence County, left their home between 8 and 10 p.m. Monday and failed to return.

Shale workshop

villa maria, pa.

Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA), in collaboration with the Sisters of the Humility of Mary, Penn Environment and the Mountain Watershed Association, will have a workshop from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. next Thursday at Villa Maria Community Center, 225 Villa Maria Road, on advocacy on issues related to the drilling of the Marcellus Shale.

PASA received a grant from the Colcom Foundation to develop action-oriented training in western Pennsylvania to help farmers, rural land owners and other citizens make informed decisions, understand legal issues and engage in environmental monitoring and local organizing efforts related to Marcellus Shale issues in their communities.

The session is free but registration is required online at www.pasafarming.org/marcellusshalechoices.

For information, contact Leah Smith, PASA member services manager, 412-365-2985 or at leah@pasafarming.org.

Special meeting

Liberty

The township trustees will have a special meeting today at 9 a.m. at the administration building, 1315 Church Hill-Hubbard Road, to conduct business and adjourn into executive session to discuss personnel issues.

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