Liberty Relay nears

Liberty Relay nears

LIBERTY

The opening ceremony for the American Cancer Society 2012 Relay For Life at Liberty’s Churchill Park is at 6 p.m. Friday. The park is on the west side of Belmont Avenue (state Route 193) near state Route 304.

The survivor/caregiver ceremony immediately follows the opening ceremony. Other entertainment and activities are scheduled throughout the event including a luminaria ceremony at 9 p.m. Friday. The closing ceremony is 5 p.m. Saturday.

AWL closed today

LORDSTOWN

The Animal Welfare League of Trumbull County will be closed today and reopen from 1 to 6 p.m. Thursday at its 545 Brunstetter Road SW, Lordstown, location.

The one-day closing is because of an open house the league will have from noon to 2 p.m. today at the site where the group will build its new shelter, 812 Youngstown-Kingsville Road in Vienna Township. AWL will have a second open house from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Nursing assistants

YOUNGSTOWN

Compass Family & Community Service and Mahoning County One-Stop is offering a recruiting/open-interviews event for Windsor House for state-tested nursing assistants from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at 141 Boardman-Canfield Road.

Positions are full and part time and pay up to $11.05 an hour with full benefits and educational assistance. People interested should bring a resume, be prepared to complete an application and interview, and have a state-trained nursing assistant’s license or be willing to be trained. For information, call Compass at 330-480-4384 ext. 229.

Neighborhood threat

BOARDMAN

Police are investigating an aggravated-menacing case after several people at a house on Salinas Trail said a neighbor threatened to shoot them. Police were called about 10:30 p.m. Monday, and said the threat was made minutes after the neighbor was seen walking down the road with a shotgun.

Guilty plea in burglary

WARREN

Daniel A. Totten, 19, of Orangeville Road, Hermitage, Pa., pleaded guilty in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to burglary and will be sentenced later for his role in the theft of a safe from a home on South Stateline Road in Masury on Aug. 31, 2011.

Totten and an accomplice, Cody J. Sutton, 20, of Mitchell Road, West Middlesex, took a safe containing about $12,400 from the home, Brookfield police said. Sutton broke in through a dog door. Totten, who could get up to eight years in prison, will be sentenced after the county’s Adult Probation Department conducts a pre-sentence investigation. Sutton, facing the same sentence, will be sentenced May 31. He pleaded guilty to the same charge earlier.

Car strikes mower

BEAVER, Pa.

An East Palestine man was in critical condition Tuesday night after a car hit the lawn mower he was riding in Beaver County earlier in the day.

According to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, the crash happened around 11:30 a.m. on Georgetown Road in South Beaver Township.

Police said 47-year-old Thomas Weisenberger was cutting what they believe is a grandparent’s yard when he may have gone onto the road and was then hit by a car traveling on the wrong side of the road. Weisenberger was flown to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, according to the TV station’s report. South Beaver Township Police said the car’s driver, 18, was not injured.

Insurance fraud

WARREN

John W. Stewart, 42, who listed addresses in Girard and Brookfield, pleaded guilty Monday to insurance fraud and falsification for turning in a false police report and a false insurance claim.

Judge Peter Kontos of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court sentenced Stewart to six months in prison on the two felonies. Brookfield police said Stewart reported the theft of a television and other electronics valued at $4,932 from a Brookfield home from December 2011 through January 2012 but later admitted he traded the items for drugs.

9th guilty plea for OVI

WARREN

For the ninth time, Scott A. Scaggs, 46, of Eastlake, Ohio, has pleaded guilty to operating a motor vehicle impaired under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Scaggs will be sentenced in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court after the county’s Adult Probation Department conducts a pre-sentence investigation. Kinsman Township police arrested him on state Route 7 near Moreford East Road on Sept. 23, 2010. Scaggs’ blood-alcohol content was tested at 0.207, more than twice the legal limit of 0.08, police said. Scaggs faces a mandatory prison term of between one and five years for having five or more OVI offenses within the past 20 years. His previous OVI offenses were in the Willoughby area.