Tractor-trailer fire

Tractor-trailer fire

HERMITAGE

A tractor-trailer caught on fire close to an animal shelter Tuesday night.

Authorities closed Broadway Avenue beginning at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, for the truck fire in the roadway by Shenango Valley Animal Shelter, 2559 Broadway Ave.

There were no injuries. Hermitage and West Middlesex crews responded to the fire, with other departments on stand-by.

The cause of the fire was unknown Tuesday night.

Vacant house burns

YOUNGSTOWN

A vacant home at 2771 Wardle Ave. on the city’s East Side was destroyed by a fire about 8:10 a.m. Monday. Crews who arrived found the home engulfed, and took up positions to protect surrounding properties, fire reports said. Damage is listed at $4,800.

Clinic canceled

WARREN

The free mammogram and pap smear clinic scheduled for Friday at Warren City Health Department has been canceled.

Car show scheduled

YOUNGSTOWN

The Brownlee Woods Neighborhood Association will host a car-show fundraiser from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at Fairview Arts and Outreach Center, 4220 Youngstown-Poland Road. Prizes, food, games, music and more will be offered.

Proceeds will fund Brownlee Woods neighborhood projects and events throughout the year.

For information, call 330-782-1022.

Bush parole denied

WARREN

Clyde T. Bush, 64, has been denied parole for at least five more years for sexually abusing 10 children who attended his wife’s day-care on Anderson Drive in Howland in the late 1980s.

Bush received eight life prison sentences for eight rapes after pleading guilty in 1990 to committing crimes against children ages 2 to 6 while his wife went to doctor’s visits or to the store.

The Ohio Parole Board had Bush’s hearing Monday and announced its decision Tuesday. Members of several of the six families affected by the abuse talked with the parole board before Monday’s hearing, said Miriam Fife, victim witness advocate for the Trumbull County Prosecutor’s office.

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