Cookies with Santa

Cookies with Santa

WARREN

The Cake Boutique and the nonprofit Making Kids Count will provide free cookies and milk and time with Santa from 2 to 4 p.m. Nov. 24 at the Cake Boutique, 4248 North River Road. There also will be a toy-drive collection through Christmas.

Court executives

COLUMBUS

Scott Grossen, administrator of the Mahoning County Clerk of Courts office in Youngstown, and Keitsa Miles, deputy administrator of the 11th District Court of Appeals in Warren, became certified court executives after graduating from a recent Ohio Supreme Court-sponsored training program.

They were among 37 court officials in the first group of Ohioans to complete the second level of a program developed by the National Center for State Courts.

The subjects covered included court management, strategic planning and visioning and communicating with the media and the public.

East Side shooting

YOUNGSTOWN

A city man was taken to ValleyCare Northside Medical Center and transferred to St. Elizabeth Health Center after being shot in the thigh on the East Side on Friday evening. Willis Warren Jr., 56, told police a man approached him at 9:35 p.m., saying Warren owed him money. Warren replied he was unemployed and didn’t have any money. Warren then fell to the ground and discovered he’d been shot. Warren said his sister was driving by, stopped to pick him up and took him to Northside. The victim could not identify the exact location where he was shot and did not know the name of the man who confronted him, but told police he could identify him if shown his photo, according to the police report. St. Elizabeth refused to release Warren’s condition because he is a crime victim.