Motorcycle safety

Motorcycle safety

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The Ohio State Highway Patrol is marking National Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month this May by reminding drivers to be extra careful with more motorcycles out and about as the weather gets warmer. The patrol says crashes involving motorcycles killed more than 500 people and injured more than 11,000 in Ohio from 2009 to 2011. Last year, there were 167 such fatalities, and motorcyclists were at fault in more than two-thirds of those cases.

2 killed in crash

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Two people were killed in an early Sunday crash involving two motorcycles. The accident occurred about 2:20 a.m. at Conneaut Lake and KO Roads, according to Mercer County 911. Vindicator broadcast news partner 21 WFMJ-TV reported that the operator of one bike, Greg Nageotte, 34, of Meadville, Pa., was pronounced dead at the scene. His passenger, Candi Braswell, 45, of Adamsville, died later after being flown to a Pittsburgh hospital. Two people on the second motorcycle suffered minor injuries. Police are investigating.

Leavittsburg fire

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Firefighters responded to a house fire Sunday evening on Eagle Creek Road. No injuries were reported. Crews from Lordstown and Warren Township responded.

Apartment blaze

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Cardinal Joint Fire District firefighters are investigating a blaze that damaged a unit at Indian Run Apartments Saturday night. Crews were dispatched about 9:30 p.m. to the apartments. No one was injured, and the fire was confined to one apartment. No information was available Sunday about the cause or damage estimate.

Another arson in Youngstown?

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Arson is suspected in a Sunday afternoon blaze that damaged a vacant duplex on East Glenaven Avenue. The fire started in the second-floor apartment about 12:30 p.m. No injuries were reported. It took city firefighters about an hour to get the fire under control. The cause remains under investigation, and the case has been turned over to the department’s arson division. If it’s ruled an arson, it would be at least the 11th in a week in the city, all of vacant homes. Two vacant houses were destroyed by arson early Saturday.

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Arrests at Covelli

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A Salem teenager and a Gallipolis, Ohio, man were arrested Saturday evening at the Covelli Centre. Andrea Baddeley, 19, of New Garden Avenue, Salem, was charged with resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and underage alcohol consumption. She’s accused of fighting with police and security officers after her friend was kicked out of the center. Wayne Saunders, 39, of Gallipolis, who was with his 14-year-old daughter at the center, was charged with assault. He is accused of hitting a security officer who was removing Saunders and another man from the center after they had been accused of fighting.

Firearm charge

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A 23-year-old Brookline Avenue woman was charged with improperly discharging a firearm into a residence. A Halleck Avenue man told police that a woman, later identified as LaToya J. Bullock, was standing in his neighbor’s yard and firing a gun about 6:15 p.m. Saturday. One of the bullets went through a window of the man’s house. Bullock told police that she was shooting into the air to back people away from her after she was jumped by a bunch of girls. She was taken to the Mahoning County Jail.

Man shot in both legs

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Police are investigating a shooting that left a Market Street man hospitalized. Jamar Spivey, 26, and his girlfriend told police they were leaving the Logan Gas Mart on Logan Avenue about 1 p.m. Saturday when they heard gunfire and Spivey was struck in both legs. Neither Spivey nor his girlfiend saw who was shooting. Store video shows two cars that left the store lot after the shooting, a police report says.

Concealed weapon

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A Liberty Road woman was charged with carrying a concealed weapon and felonious assault. A city police report says Tenisha William, 26, was arrested about 9 a.m. Sunday, accused of trying to “sucker punch” another woman in the head with brass knuckles that she had concealed on her person.

Obama honors officer

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President Barack Obama has honored a Northeast Ohio police officer who fatally shot a man who killed seven people in a shooting rampage last year as one of America’s top police officers in a White House ceremony on Saturday. Multiple media outlets report that Copley police Officer Ben Campbell attended a special ceremony at the Rose Garden. Campbell has been credited with stopping 51-year-old Michael Hance last August.

Staff/wire reports