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Free drug disposal

YOUNGSTOWN

Area residents may dispose of unwanted or unused prescription drugs free of charge at multiple Mahoning County locations from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today, National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. They include the Boardman, Struthers, Canfield and New Middletown police departments; the Austintown Senior Center, 100 Westchester Drive; and Walgreens at 40 N. Meridian Road and 525 E. Midlothian Blvd. The Austintown and Beaver township police departments have 24-hour permanent drop-off collections. Today’s event is sponsored by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Mahoning County Recycling Division.

Fire at lumber yard

Hubbard

Crews from several area fire departments responded to a blaze at a Mount Everett Road lumber yard.

Eagle Joint Fire District, which covers the city and township, got the call for the fire at Babcock Lumber about 9:30 a.m. Friday. Ron Stanish, assistant chief, said firefighters believe a light above the company’s dust-collection system, caused the fire in the ceiling, which was contained to the dust-collection and compressor areas.

It caused between $10,000 and $15,000 in damage. Crews from Liberty, Brookfield, Vienna, Coitsville and the Youngs-town Air Reserve Station also responded. No one was injured.

Event for autism

AUSTINTOWN

The Autistic Learning Foundation and A Way With Words Foundation (ROCcK Children’s Choir) are having the Kids Shine For A Cure event from noon to 6 p.m. today at Austintown Township Park, 6000 Kirk Road.

The free event merges two nonprofit foundations that strive to make better the lives of kids dealing with life-altering childhood cancer and autism. The organizations are selling $20 raffle tickets for a chance on a free three-year lease of a 2013 Chrysler 200. If not enough tickets are sold to benefit the foundations, it becomes a 50/50 raffle.

Activities include a kite-flying contest, face painting, K9 Unit, police, firetrucks and EMT displays. At 1 p.m., there will be a One Mile Matters 1K walk; from 2 to 4 p.m., Chris Yambar will do drawings for a donation and autograph “Popeye” and “Simpsons” comic books; and at 3 p.m. there will be a free concert by Nashville artist Tommy Cole.

$5M jury award

YOUNGSTOWN

A three-man and five-woman jury has awarded a Belmont County woman more than $5 million in a lawsuit against a Cleveland area doctor for plastic surgery gone wrong.

Kelly Turkoly, of Glencoe, Ohio, filed suit against Dr. Richard Gentile, who has an office in Boardman, in 2011. The case was heard over an eight-day period before visiting Judge Thomas Pokorny in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. Turkoly’s attorney, Geoffrey Brown of Wheeling, W.V., said his client went in for a minimally invasive procedure and came out with permanent scarring, hair loss and a recurring infection.

Family fun night

YOUNGSTOWN

Associated Neighborhood Centers McGuffey Centre will have a “Family Fun Night” with movies, open gym and assorted games from 6:30 to 11 p.m. Friday at the center on Jacobs Road. The first movie, “Sorcerer and the White Snake” will begin at 7 p.m., followed by the second movie, “Parental Guidance,” about 8:50 p.m. The event is open to all, but children under 11 must be accompanied by an adult. Admission is $2.