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Jordan Brown case review requested
PITTSBURGH
The state attorney general’s office has asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to review a lower court decision overturning the guilty verdict against a 15-year-old western Pennsylvania boy who was convicted of killing his father’s pregnant fiancee and her unborn child when he was 11.
The Pennsylvania Superior Court in May overturned Jordan Brown’s conviction and sent the case back to Lawrence County juvenile court.
That’s where a judge ruled in April 2012 that Brown was delinquent — the juvenile court equivalent of guilty — in the 2009 deaths of 26-year-old Kenzie Houk and her unborn son. Houk was shot in the back of the head with Brown’s .20-gauge youth model shotgun.
Ex-nurse gets 12 years in killing for hire case
CLEVELAND
A 23-year-old Bristolville man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for trying to hire another man to kill a Lakewood woman.
Court documents say Andrew Martin, while working as a nurse at a Cleveland hospital, offered a patient $10,000 to kill the woman. The murder was never carried out. Instead, the patient contacted police.
Judge Christopher Boyko issued the sentence Wednesday in Cleveland Federal Court. Martin no longer works for the hospital, according to The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, 21 WFMJ-TV.
Suspect flees cop, breaks his arm
YOUNGSTOWN
Police say a man who tried to run from a traffic stop at about 8 p.m. Tuesday broke his arm after sheering off a telephone pole and wrapping his car around another.
Demetrius Gordon, 39, is expected to be arraigned in Youngstown Municipal Court today for the charges of driving under suspension and failure to comply and a warrant for trafficking in cocaine.
Reports said Gordon was going north on South Avenue and ran a red light and an officer tried to pull him over. Instead of stopping, he turned onto Marmion Avenue and drove at speeds estimated at 90 miles per hour before crashing at South and Wisener avenues.
A passenger in the car was released because it was found he did nothing wrong, reports said.
Oral rabies bait LISBON
Personnel from the Columbiana County Health Department, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Wildlife Services, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Salem City Health Department and East Liverpool City Health Department are distributing oral rabies vaccine baits in Columbiana County beginning Monday through Sept. 6.
Baits will be distributed by plane in rural areas and ground baiting will be done by health departments in urban and suburban neighborhoods. A helicopter will also target urban and suburban areas, parks and preserves.
For baiting information, call the Columbiana County Health Department at (330) 424-0272.
Fred Kubli receives Clayman award
HOWLAND
Fred Kubli Jr., 93, of Shepherd of the Valley in Howland, will receive the Niles Area Business Council’s William Clayman Community Award Thursday.
The award, named for the long-time owner of Niles Iron and Metal, recognizes business ethics, professionalism, character, integrity and service above and beyond, community outreach, leadership and volunteerism, and commitment to the Niles area.
Kubli, formerly of Niles, has served and led numerous organizations including Friends of the McKinley Library, Shepherd of the Valley Board of Directors, Board of the Niles Community Improvement Corp. and Civil Service Commission, Trumbull Metropolitan Housing Authority, Niles Historical Society Board of Trustees.
He is a Boy Scouts of American Silver Beaver Award recipient, and earlier this year was made the first honorary brigadier general of the 910th Airlift Wing at the Youngstown Air Reserve Station.
Sizemore gets 7 months
WARREN
Arthur A. Sizemore, 21, of state Route 5 in Kinsman, has been sentenced to seven months in prison on charges of aggravated drug possession and two counts of receiving stolen property.
The receiving stolen property charges were investigated by Cortland police for crimes committed in July 2012.
The drug charge involved use of crystal methamphetamine in April and was investigated by Weathersfield police.
Sizemore received his sentence Wednesday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.
Man sentenced in purse snatching
WARREN
Mykael Zolovick, 22, of Kinsman-Orangeville Road in Kinsman was sentenced to probation and 60 days in the Trumbull County jail Wednesday after pleading guilty to theft from an elderly person.
Police released a photo taken from security footage at the Elm Road Giant Eagle Feb. 9, 2013, showing a man snatching a purse from an elderly woman.
Numerous calls to the Warren Police Department after the photo was published identified Zolovick as the purse snatcher.
He was also ordered Wednesday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to pay restitution of $212 to the victim.
Robbed at gunpoint
WARREN
A 51-year-old resident of the 500 block of North Park Avenue reported being robbed at gunpoint of $50 in cash at 8 p.m. Monday on North Park Avenue near Washington Street, which is near his home. The victim said he knows the suspect.
Electric assistance
WARREN
The deadline for eligible households to apply for assistance through the Trumbull Community Action Partnership’s 2013 Summer Crisis Program is Aug. 30. TCAP accepts walk-ins on Mondays. All other times are by appointment. Call the Warren Office at 330-393-2507 ext. 225 for information. The Summer Crisis Program provides assistance to low-income households with a member 60 or older, or households that can provide physician documentation that a household member would benefit from an air conditioner or continued electric service.
Neighborhood cleanups
YOUNGSTOWN
The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. is having a community clean-up event from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Volunteers interested in boarding up vacant houses and cleaning up various neighborhoods in the city are asked to meet at the YNDC office at 820 Canfield Road. Parking is available across the street and on Billingsgate Avenue. For more information, call the YNDC at 330-480-0423.