Fire district placed on ‘unauditable list’

Fire district placed on ‘unauditable list’

COLUMBUS

As a result of inadequate financial records, Ohio Auditor Dave Yost placed the Newton Falls Joint Fire District on the “unauditable” list.

The district serves Newton Falls and Newton Township.

During the course of the regular financial audit of the district for Jan. 1, 2010, through Dec. 31, 2011, the auditor’s office determined that the condition of the fire district’s financial records were not adequate to complete the audit, according to a news release.

In a letter to the fire district, the state auditor’s office provided a list of records required to complete the audit. Within 90 days of the letter, the Newton Falls Joint Fire District must revise its financial records and provide the necessary data.

Failure to bring records to an auditable condition may result in legal action.

Found with multiple gunshot wounds

LIBERTY

Police said Shaquille Emanuel McWilson, 19, of Campbell, was taken to the hospital after he was found with multiple gunshot wounds.

Police were sent to Northside Medical Center shortly before midnight Monday after a call was received about a victim being treated for a gunshot wound.

According to reports, witnesses said they heard a single gunshot from inside a residence along the 3000 block of Northgate Drive. Police said a neighbor came to check on the victim and found him lying in a pool of blood, before he was taken to the hospital.

Police said the victim was shot in the left hand and thigh.

Witnesses said they saw no one enter or exit the home.

Police said no weapon was recovered at the scene.

The victim was uncooperative with police, officers said.

TCTC courses

CHAMPION

The Trumbull Career and Technical Center will have two one-hour information sessions Wednesday for its Oil and Gas Energy course. They are at 1 and 6 p.m. and will be at TCTC. An RSVP is required by calling 330-847-0503 Ext. 1600.

Community forums

VIENNA

Mathews Local Schools Continuing Excellence Levy Committee will have two community forums Sunday to discuss the school district’s ballot issue.

It’s a 4.65-mill, 5-year additional levy to raise $680,000 per year.

The first forum will be at 2 p.m. at the Fowler Community Center. The second will be 4 p.m. at Mathews High School.

Pro-life demonstration

WARREN

Trumbull County Life Chain, a pro-life demonstration, will be from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday along Elm Road Northeast from the Warren Plaza to Warren G. Harding High School.

Life Chain is 60 minutes of silent prayer and protest and involves 40 local churches, according a press release from local organizers.

Meeting planned

Warren

Warren City Council will meet at 3 p.m. today in the council caucus room at the municipal justice building, 141 South St. SE.

During the meeting, finance chairman Alford L. Novak will discuss the 2011, 2012 and 2013 budgets for the city.

Charged with robbery

WARREN

Bond of $250,000 was set for Timothy L. Keene, 33, of 845 Parkman Road NW after he was charged with robbing two Hamilton Street Southwest residents at gunpoint at 2:17 a.m. Monday.

A judge in Warren Municipal Court entered innocent pleas for Keene to two counts of aggravated robbery and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

If convicted, Keene could get more than 20 years in prison.

Police said a 30-year-old woman and 33-year-old man had gone to an ATM machine at the Hot Dog Shoppe on West Market Street, then to the Red Box at the nearby Walgreens, then to the nearby Sunoco store.

As they walked home, a black male holding a gun robbed the two of cash and fled on foot, but the male victim followed him and called 911, helping police locate Keene at West Market Street and Parkman Road.

Police arrested Kenne after a foot chase and use of a stun gun.

Woman stabbed, cut

WARREN

A 23-year-old woman was stabbed in the head and cut in the finger with a kitchen knife during an argument with a woman living at the same residence with her on Cleveland Street Southwest on Saturday.

The victim, who did not seek medical treatment for the wounds, said the suspect told her to leave the residence and threw her clothing out of an upstairs window.

During an argument over it at 9:01 p.m., the suspect cut the victim and fled in a vehicle, police said. The victim’s injuries were not life-threatening.