METRO DIGEST || WRTA, YMHA, Lordstown utility meetings today

WRTA meeting

YOUNGSTOWN

Western Reserve Transit Authority Board of Trustees will meet at 3 p.m. today in the board room at the WRTA headquarters, 604 Mahoning Ave.

Lordstown meeting

LORDSTOWN

Lordstown Village Utility Committee meets at 1 p.m. today in village council chambers, 1455 Salt Springs Road SW.

YMHA meeting

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority board will have its regular meeting at noon today in the board room at Amedia Plaza, 131 W. Boardman St., downtown.

Quick Stop robbed

WARREN

Two black males, each around 6 feet, 3 inches tall, wearing dark blue hooded sweat shirts, masks on their faces and silver/gray gloves robbed the Quick Stop store, 2040 North Road SE at 9:23 p.m. Tuesday.

The clerk and her husband were in the store, which is at the Youngstown Road intersection. The clerk was counting the cash in the registers.

When the men came inside, the clerk and her husband asked them to take off their hoods and masks because they “were not allowed to wear them in the store.”

Then one of them told the clerk to give him the money, and she did. While she fumbled with the register, the man pointed a handgun at her. They also got money from a second cash register and took some cigars.

Sentencing today in child-molestation case

LISBON

Sentencing is scheduled today for a Wellsville man convicted of molesting a child.

After hearing testimony in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court, a jury on Tuesday convicted Brian Curran, 44, of gross sexual imposition, according to The Vindicator’s broadcast partner 21 WFMJ-TV.

The 6-year-old victim was 4 at the time of the crime. Jurors were allowed to view her videotaped testimony during the case.

Driver flees cop

YOUNGSTOWN

Reports say a man who refused to pull over for an officer early Wednesday told police he did not pull over because he knew he would be going to jail, and he wanted to visit his mother.

An officer on patrol on the East Side saw a car he believed was stolen in a McGuffey Road parking lot about 2:30 a.m., and the suspect drove away when the officer pulled into the lot and would not stop as he traveled along Albert Street, reports said. The officer checked the plates as he followed the car and discovered it was stolen, reports said.

The car never went over 20 miles per hour but would not pull over until it stopped in a vacant lot on Berkley Avenue, reports said. The driver, 51-year-old Lawrence Mitchum, was arrested on charges of theft of a motor vehicle, driving under suspension and a warrant from Youngstown State University Police Department for cocaine possession. A passenger was released, reports said.

Voter deadline

MERCER, PA.

Monday is the deadline to make a change to your voter registration or to register to vote for the May 20 primary election in Pennsylvania.

Applications can be found at www.votespa.com, the Bureau of Elections in the Mercer County Courthouse, or at many local post offices, municipal buildings and libraries. For information, call 724-662-7542.

Fire victim identified

sharon, pa.

An 84-year-old man died in a fire at his home Tuesday evening.

Sharon Fire Department Chief Terry Whalen said the victim is Robert A. Carson.

A neighbor, Rick Ruebenger, 49, tried to rescue Carson. He was taken to Sharon Regional Hospital for smoke inhalation, Whalen said.

Whalen said the cause of the fire is under investigation by the state fire marshal.

It started in a first-floor bedroom and spread to the dining room and kitchen.