McLain dies at 84

McLain dies at 84

YOUNGSTOWN

A longtime former Trumbull County Common Pleas judge has died.

David Francis McLain, 84, died Saturday at his residence. The former judge will be laid to rest Wednesday after a memorial Mass at St. Mary’s Church in Warren.

McLain was elected common pleas judge in 1968 and served as judge in the county until 1987. He served as Trumbull County prosecutor from 1964 until 1968. He spent time in private practice before working for the prosecutor’s office.

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Assault and robbery

YOUNGSTOWN

A city man and woman may be arraigned in Youngstown Municipal Court today on charges related to the beating and robbery of a 37-year-old man on the South Side over the weekend.

The man reportedly went to meet the woman at a home on West Laclede Avenue on Saturday when he was jumped, beaten and held captive. His assailants were looking for money, he said.

Miesha Williams, 24, and Daniel Ortello were arrested a short time later at a home on Idlewood Avenue.

Hunger strike

YOUNGSTOWN

Four inmates at the Ohio State Penitentiary are refusing to eat in protest after not being allowed to participate in sit-down interviews with the media about their cases.

Greg Curry, Siddique Abdullah Hasan, Jason Robb and Bomani Shakur, who have been housed at OSP since it opened, began refusing food Friday.

The men were involved in the 1993 Lucasville Prison riot that lasted for 11 days and claimed the lives of several people.

The prisoners list a number of reasons, legal and humanitarian, why they should be able to have sit-down interviews with the press.

Special meeting

NEW MIDDLETOWN

The village of New Middletown will have a special meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Municipal Building on Main Street to discuss a resolution for a Nature Works grant and new positions for the police department.