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Housing authority meeting planned

Youngstown

Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority board meets at noon today in the board room of Amedia Plaza, 131 W. Boardman St.

Sesame Street Live show at Covelli

YOUNGSTOWN

Sesame Street Live presents “Elmo Makes Music” in May at the Covelli Centre, 229 E. Front St. Tickets, from $20 to $45, go on sale at the center’s ticket office at 10 a.m. next Thursday. Show times are 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. May 25 and 1 and 4:30 p.m. May 26. Call the center at 330-746-5600 for information.

Driver falls asleep, crashes pickup

BOARDMAN

A 56-year-old man, who police say fell asleep at the wheel, crashed his pickup truck into a utility pole, sheering it and knocking down wires.

The driver, Kirk Lambert, no address available from police, was ticketed for failure to control. He wasn’t injured, police said.

Lambert was northbound on Applewood Boulevard at about 3:50 p.m. Wednesday when he fell asleep while driving, police said.

The vehicle crossed left of center into a few residential yards, back on to the street with Lambert now awake, over the right side of the road and into the utility pole, police said.

Receiving funds

CORTLAND

Cortland Fire Department will receive $60,515 in federal funds to purchase protective equipment, vehicles and/or gear. The money comes from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency Assistance to Firefighters Grants program. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, announced the award Wednesday.

Man to be sentenced

LISBON

A Wellsville man faces three to 22 years in prison when he is sentenced at 9 a.m. Tuesday in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court, where a jury convicted him this week of two counts of aggravated robbery.

The six-man, six woman jury convicted Lester D. Russell, 31, of Commerce Street, of the knifepoint robberies of the Wellsville BP Station, in which he took $460 on Oct. 18, and of McGraw’s Drive Thru in Wellsville, in which he got nothing on Oct. 20, after the clerk wrestled him out of the office and ejected him from the business.

Judge Scott A. Washam revoked Russell’s bond and ordered him held in county jail pending sentencing, according to a news release from Robert L. Herron, county prosecutor.