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Holiday activities

WARREN

Christmas activities begin in Courthouse Square in downtown Warren at 5:30 p.m. Friday with the official lighting of the Warren Christmas tree by Mayor Doug Franklin and the arrival of Santa Claus, who will be available for pictures at the log cabin ($2 per person).

Other events that evening, all downtown, are, performances by four Warren G. Harding choirs; the “Cookie Crawl,” in which participants travel to 15 downtown businesses collecting Christmas cookies ($7 per person); horse-drawn sleigh rides around Courthouse Square ($2 per person); Christmas storytelling inside the Bookmobile; Christmas entertainment; an encore showing of “Warren: The Retelling”; a children’s “bounce house” inside The Hippodrome on High Street; crafts and activities for the children; tours of Warren landmarks, including City Hall and The Upton House; a pictorial tribute to Warren inside The Saratoga restaurant; hot chocolate and food options; and giveaways.

Woman stabbed

YOUNGSTOWN

Police arrested a man on a charge of felonious assault after a woman was stabbed in the stomach about 5:15 a.m. Tuesday on the South Side.

Police were called to a home in the 500 block of East Philadelphia Avenue and found the 32-year-old woman on her porch bleeding from the stab wound.

Reports said she told officers Rob DiMaiolo and Anthony Congemi her uncle, Richard Wilson, 56, of Youngstown, stabbed her, and her 2-year-old was inside with him.

Congemi broke the door down and found Wilson at the top of the steps, reports said. The child was found unharmed, reports said. Wilson was arrested without resistance and told police where the knife was that was used in the stabbing.

The victim was treated for her wound at St. Elizabeth Health Center. Wilson is in Mahoning County jail and is expected to be arraigned in municipal court today.

Man arraigned

WARREN

James Harris III, 57, of Main Avenue Southwest was arraigned on one count of aggravated robbery after a clerk at Family Dollar, 378 Elm Road NE, accused him of threatening her with a box-cutter type knife Saturday.

An innocent plea was entered for him Monday in Warren Municipal Court, and a judge set bond at $15,000.

The clerk said Harris was trying to conceal diapers under his coat, and she approached him about it at 5:07 p.m.

That’s when Harris “pulled” the knife, according to a police report. Harris was arrested a short distance from the store and had two knives in his possession. The clerk identified him as the man in question.

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