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Faith Nights

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The Mahoning Valley Scrappers are hosting Faith Nights at Eastwood Field July 26 and Aug. 9, when $1 of each Faith Night ticket sold benefits Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley.

Box-seat game tickets are $8 each and an All-You-Can-Eat Picnic package, which includes a box seat, hotdogs, hamburgers, baked beans, potato salad, cookies, water and soft drinks, are $16. There also will be post-game fireworks.

Tickets must be purchased two weeks in advance. Contact Chris Sumner for information at csumner@mvscrappers.com or call 330-505-0000.

Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley distributes food to 153 hunger relief organizations in Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties. For information on Second Harvest, call 330-792-5522 or visit www.mahoning- valleysecondharvest.org.

Pa. man sentenced

PITTSBURGH

A federal judge has sentenced a 56-year-old Enon Valley, Pa., man to 19 years and seven months in prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, after he pleaded guilty to receipt of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor. Patrick Joseph Kofalt. of Moravia Road, drew the sentence Tuesday from U.S. District Judge Nora Barry Fischer.

On Dec. 2, 2009, Kofalt received, possessed and accessed material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, the U.S. Attorney said. Disclosures by a 6-year-old in 2009 prompted the seizure of more than 1,000 child- pornography images, which Kofalt encrypted and saved in computer files, according to Assistant U.S. Atty. Soo C. Song, who prosecuted the case. Law enforcement later identified three additional sexual-assault victims of Kofalt, the U.S. attorney said.

Taken from home

BOARDMAN

Prescription pills, a handgun and money were taken from a Boardman woman’s home. The woman told police it occurred between June 10 and 28. She didn’t report it until Tuesday because she couldn’t prove who did it, and she was embarrassed, according to a report. She believes a female associated with a recovering drug addict, whom she had been helping, is responsible for stealing about 100 Vicodin pills, $50 in change and a Smith and Wesson handgun.

GED testing

youngstown

Official GED testing sponsored by Choffin Career and Technical Center’s Adult Education Department, University System of Ohio will be offered at 8:45 a.m. July 23 and 24 at Choffin. All participants must be pre-registered and bring photo identification. To preregister for the test or to enroll in free classes, call Choffin at 330-744-8715.

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