Cut with machete

Cut with machete

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A man told police he was cut with a machete in a dispute over car keys about 3:30 p.m. Thursday on North Portland Avenue on the West Side.

The man said in a police report he went to retrieve a car he had given to someone there three weeks ago to repair and had never gotten it back. He spotted the car at a drive-through on Mahoning Avenue, and the man driving it told him to follow him to a home on North Portland.

When they got there, the two began arguing over the car keys, and the car’s driver pulled a machete out of his pants and swung and cut the man on the thumb, reports said. As the victim was on the ground, the mother of the man with the machete jumped on top of him until they both drove away. Officers recovered a machete with blood on it, reports said.

Lunch and learn

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Aldolphe Roitman, the curator of the Dead Sea Scrolls, speaks at a “lunch and learn” meeting at noon Sept. 16 at the Jewish Community Center, 505 Gypsy Lane.

The program is sponsored jointly by the Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies at Youngstown State University and the Youngstown Area Jewish Community Center. Cost for the lunch is $5. Reservations are required. To make a reservation, call 330-746-3250. Tickets can be bought on the day of the event for $8.

Racism discussion

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College Students Stand Against Racism, a panel of students organized through the Youngstown State University Student Diversity Council, will present a discussion at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Kilcawley Center at YSU. Panelists will be discussing their perspective of racism locally, regionally, statewide and nationally. The event is sponsored by the YSU Student Diversity Council and the Office of Student Diversity Programs.

Groundbreaking set

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A groundbreaking ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. Wednesday for Youngstown State University’s Veterans Resource Center on Wick Avenue.

The center will be at the site of the former Peck House. Adolph Johnson & Son Co. of Mineral Ridge is the contractor for the two-floor, 6,000-square-foot project, which is estimated at $1.1 million.

Peer Warm Line

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Help Hotline Crisis Center Inc. received $4,000 from the Ridgecliff Foundation for operation of the Peer Warm Line, a peer-to-peer, noncrisis listening line that provides support for individuals who are coping with mental-health, alcohol or drug problems.

Trained peers offer telephone support and encouragement to people in recovery.

The hours of operation of the Peer Warm Line are 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. The telephone number is 1-866-303-7337.

The program also is funded by Mahoning County Mental Health Board, Trumbull County Mental Health and Recovery Board, Columbiana County Mental Health and Recovery Services Board and Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation.

Rollover fatality

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A woman died in a rollover accident on Interstate 80 early Friday. Pennsylvania State Police said Sharla Rantilla, 34, of Girard, was westbound on the interstate in East Lackawannock Township when she went off the road and hit an embankment. The car overturned several times.

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