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Chaney students to perform

NILES

Chaney Visual and Performing Arts students, part of the Youngstown City Schools, will perform at the 21 WFMJ-TV “Project Feed Our Valley” event at Eastwood Mall on Saturday.

The Chaney VPA performance will begin at noon in the main corridor of the mall. Project Feed Our Valley is an effort to educate people about hunger in the community and is a call to action to raise food and monetary donations to help feed the hungry. Earlier this school year, the Chaney VPA Dance Department raised money and donations of nonperishable food for the Second Harvest Food Bank with its “Dance To End Hunger” performances. Some selections from that performance and the school’s upcoming “Holiday Spectacular” show will be featured at the 21 WFMJ-TV event.

Vacant-house fire

YOUNGSTOWN

A fire at a vacant home at 142 LaBelle Ave. about 2:45 a.m. Wednesday caused $4,000 in damage.

Firefighters found fire on the first and second floor when they arrived and managed to contain the blaze to those areas, reports said.

One firefighter was slightly injured by flying glass, reports said.

Neighbors told firefighters the South Side home has been vacant for some time. The cause is under investigation.

No local charges

WARREN

A Trumbull County grand jury has refused to indict a Warren man on four gun charges after he was indicted by a federal grand jury in relation to the same incident.

Michael L. Green Jr., 33, of Jackson Street Southwest was bound over to a Trumbull County grand jury last month on four charges after police arrested him near TaeMarr Walker’s house on Kenwood Drive Southeast just after someone had shot up the house.

Green was found with an assault rifle and a drum containing 97 rounds of ammunition for the rifle. He also had a pistol and was wearing body armor.

The incident occurred about 10 days after Walker, 24, was killed in a confrontation with a Warren police officer.

Green’s federal charges could produce a prison sentence of 15 years to life. The local charges could have brought a prison term of about six years.

Trial set for ex-cop

BROOKFIELD

A trial has been scheduled for 10 a.m. Jan. 23 in Eastern District Court for Stephen Kendall, 41, of Salem, a former Boardman police officer charged in Vernon Township with impersonating a police officer.

Kendall was fired by the Boardman Police Department in 2007 after being convicted of gross sexual imposition involving a 17-year-old girl.

A Hartford Township police officer stopped Kendall’s car at 1:44 a.m. May 13, 2012, for a purported stop-sign violation. Hartford police and the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office patrol Vernon.

The officer said Kendall appeared to be trying to show the officer a credit card with a Fraternal Order of Police insignia on it, so the officer asked Kendall if he was a police officer.

Kendall said yes and that he worked for the Boardman Police Department.

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